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aura — The Aura Package Manager: a secure, multilingual package manager for Arch Linux and the AUR. More in

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Problem

How to use the aura command: The Aura Package Manager: a secure, multilingual package manager for Arch Linux and the AUR. More information: <https://github.com/fosskers/aura>.

Solution

aura — The Aura Package Manager: a secure, multilingual package manager for Arch Linux and the AUR. More information: <https://github.com/fosskers/aura>.

Search for packages from the AUR:

aura {{[-As|--aursync --search]}} {{keyword|regex}}

Install a package from the AUR:

aura {{[-A|--aursync]}} {{package}}

Update all AUR packages in a verbose mode and remove all make dependencies:

aura {{[-Akua|--aursync --diff --sysupgrade --delmakedeps]}}

Install a package from the official repositories:

aura {{[-S|--sync]}} {{package}}

Synchronize and update all packages from the official repositories:

aura {{[-Syu|--sync --refresh --sysupgrade]}}

Remove a package and its dependencies:

aura {{[-Rsu|--remove --recursive --unneeded]}} {{package}}

Remove orphan packages (installed as dependencies but not required by any package):

aura {{[-Oj|--orphans --abandon]}}

Code Snippets

Search for packages from the AUR

aura {{[-As|--aursync --search]}} {{keyword|regex}}

Install a package from the AUR

aura {{[-A|--aursync]}} {{package}}

Update all AUR packages in a verbose mode and remove all make dependencies

aura {{[-Akua|--aursync --diff --sysupgrade --delmakedeps]}}

Install a package from the official repositories

aura {{[-S|--sync]}} {{package}}

Synchronize and update all packages from the official repositories

aura {{[-Syu|--sync --refresh --sysupgrade]}}

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