AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.

Inspired by pacaur, yaourt and yay.

• Installation
• Run without installation
• Config file
• Directories
• FAQ
• Contributing
• • Translations

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pikaur.git
cd pikaur
makepkg -fsri

git clone https://github.com/actionless/pikaur.git
cd pikaur
python3 ./pikaur.py -Ss AUR_PACKAGE_NAME
python3 ./pikaur.py -S AUR_PACKAGE_NAME
python3 ./pikaur.py -Syu

~/.config/pikaur.conf

when doing sysupgrade count all devel (-git, -svn, -bzr, -hg, -cvs) packages older than N days as being upgradeable. -1 disables this. 0 means always upgrade. Passing --devel argument will override this option to 0.

when installing new packages show their repository name even if they are coming from one of the official Arch Linux repositories.

when upgrading packages sort them by versiondiff, pkgname or repo.

don't remove ~/.cache/pikaur/build/${PACKAGE_NAME} directory between the builds.

don't prompt to edit PKGBUILD and install files.

don't prompt to show the build files diff.

terminal colors, from 0 to 15

require enter key to be pressed when answering questions.

~/.cache/pikaur/
├── aur_repos/  # keep there aur repos; show diff when updating
│   └── last_installed.txt  # aur repo hash of last successfully installed package
├── build/  # build directory (removed after successfull build)
└── pkg/  # built packages directory
~/.config/pikaur.conf  # config file

It's recommended to control the keys manually. However if you know what you doing, keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve GPG option will automatically import GPG keys.

To start working on a new language, say 'es' (Spanish), add it to the Makefile LANGS variable and run make. Then translate locale/es.po using your favorite PO editor. Run make every time the Python code strings change or the .po is modified.