Arch AUR

The Arch User Repository is an un-verified community managed repo of packages.
It adds additional packages not available in the standard archlinux repos.

Locations

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/${PACKAGE}.tar.gz

package URL

Install

Must be able to build packages

sudo pacman -S base-devel

Usage

# search packages:   https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/
# click:             'Download Snapshot'

curl -O "https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/${package}/tar.gz"
tar -xvf "${package}.tar.gz" # Extract Package

cd Myfile/
makepkg -s                   # Compile Package
sudo pacman -U *.tar.xz      # Install Package
sudo pacman -R Myfile        # Uninstall Package

Hacky Nonsense

LATEST_VERSION=$(curl -X GET "https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/${package}" \
    | grep 'Package Details:' \
    | head -n 1 \
    | sed -E 's!^.* ([^ ]+)<.*!\1!')

INSTALLED_VERSION=$(pacman -Q ${package} | awk '{ print $2 }')

Clients

Partly Automated

auracle	search, download packages
cower	Search, Download, Extract packages
python3-aur	Search AUR

Fully Automated

pacman aurutils	build packages to a network-shareable pacman repo
aura	build/install packages
pacaur	build/install packages
packer	build/install packages
yaourt	build/install packages