I'm always googling for the correct package-name and would really like to set up my system so that if I want to install Midnight Commander, for example I can just type
QUERYCOMMAND midnight commander
and it will perform the necessary search for me...if it isn't in the regular repositories, maybe provide a link to the newest AUR tarball? Does anyone have any ideas about how to do this?
2 Answers
Just use Yaourt. It automatically searches both the repositories and the AUR by default. It also allows you to install the AUR packages just as easily as normal packages.
To install a package you know the name of (either in AUR or repositories):
yaourt -S <package name> To search (both name and description) for a package both in AUR and the repositories:
yaourt -Ss ANY NUMBER OF KEYWORDS To search and interactively choose which packages to install:
yaourt KEYWORDS TO SEARCH FOR The quickest way to install Yaourt would be to run the command:
bash <(curl aur.sh) -si package-query yaourt This uses the aur.sh AUR helper to download Yaourt and its dependencies.
Using pacman -Q <package name> actually just lists programs you already have installed. I don't know why that would be a relevant answer to the question.
pacman -Q <package name>
To search the AUR, you can use a tool like Yaourt to accomplish this.
Once installed, the command would be yaourt <package name>.
