Install paru on Arch Linux

2021-05-18

Paru is the newest and hottest AUR Helper. From one of the developers of yay and written is Rust this project has gained a lot of traction in the Arch commuinty. This guide will walk you through the steps for installing this AUR Helper which lets you install packages from the AUR (Arch User Repository) in the same way you install packages from the Arch repos with pacman.

Read more: paru - GitHub

Installation

pacman -S --needed base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git
cd paru
makepkg -si

Usage

Command	Function
paru -Ss foo	Searches for package foo on the repos or the AUR.
paru -Si foo	Get information about a package.
paru -S foo	Installs package foo from the repos or the AUR.
paru -d foo	Remove a package from the local repo.
paru -Syu	Update package list and upgrade all installed repo and AUR packages.
paru -Sua	Update all currently installed AUR packages.
paru -Qua	Print available AUR updates.
paru -c	Uninstall unneeded dependencies.