abarbarian Posted September 4, 2024 Posted September 4, 2024 Aura 4.0 Arch’s Package Manager Released, Transitions from Haskell to Rust Quote Haven’t you heard about Aura? In short, it is a powerful package manager that simplifies the installation and management of packages on Arch Linux. The main selling point? It is known for its seamless handling of both official Arch packages and user-contributed AUR (Arch User Repository) ones. Let’s see now what the new version has in store for us. https://github.com/fosskers/aura https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aura Quote What is Aura? Aura is a package manager for Arch Linux. Its original purpose was in supplementing Pacman to support the building of AUR packages, but since its creation in 2012 it has evolved to enable a variety of use cases. I had never heard of this before but it has been around since 2012. Anyone had any experience with it ? Quote
wa4chq Posted September 4, 2024 Posted September 4, 2024 42 minutes ago, abarbarian said: Anyone had any experience with it ? 1 Quote
securitybreach Posted September 4, 2024 Posted September 4, 2024 Actually no, that is not Arch's package manager. That is a 3rd party unsupported application from the AUR. There are many others available like Yaourt and Pacaur. Quote
securitybreach Posted September 4, 2024 Posted September 4, 2024 Oh and all of the ones I listed also offer official and AUR packages. That is the whole point of using one, to be able to install AUR packages without manually doing so. Quote
securitybreach Posted September 4, 2024 Posted September 4, 2024 Personally I prefer pacaur pacaur - an AUR helper that minimizes user interaction Quote
abarbarian Posted September 4, 2024 Author Posted September 4, 2024 4 hours ago, securitybreach said: Actually no, that is not Arch's package manager. That is a 3rd party unsupported application from the AUR. There are many others available like Yaourt and Pacaur. Well Pacman is the official package manager, or so I thought. As to Pacaur I have been using it as long as I can remember. It is a really neat program. There was a time when it was tricky to install but is easy to do these days. Quote
securitybreach Posted September 4, 2024 Posted September 4, 2024 43 minutes ago, abarbarian said: Well Pacman is the official package manager, or so I thought. As to Pacaur I have been using it as long as I can remember. It is a really neat program. There was a time when it was tricky to install but is easy to do these days. Well Pacman is the only official package manager but yeah, pacaur is nice. I used Yaourt for years but pacaur is a lot better IMO. Quote
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