pakku

Pakku is a pacman wrapper with additional features, such as AUR support.

Description

Pakku is the creation of kitsunyan who is busy creating new projects at present, so, for now at least:

pakku is maintained by Pakku users and the Nim community. If you encounter issues with Pakku please open an issue here. Pull requests for improvements or bug fixes are welcomed!

Features

Basically, Pakku supports the following features:

• Installing packages from AUR
• Viewing files and changes between builds
• Building packages from official repositories
• Removing make dependencies after building
• Searching and querying AUR packages
• Reading comments for AUR packages
• PKGBUILD retrieving
• Pacman integration

In other words, it does the same things any AUR helper is capable of.

The following principles were the basis of the program:

• Pacman-like user interface
• Pacman options support (--asdeps, --needed, etc)
• Pacman configuration support (output settings, ignored packages, etc)
• Download, ask all questions, and only after that start building
• No PKGBUILD sourcing

Examples

• Build packages from sources: pakku -S --build linux linux-headers
• Query all "dependency islands": pakku -Qdttt

Installation

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pakku.git
$ cd pakku
$ makepkg -si

For more advanced build options check the wiki!

Some tips

• Pakku has color! To enable it, just enable color for Pacman.
• Pakku has out of the box support for doas! To use something other than sudo or doas, check the PreferredSudoCommand configuration option.
• Don't forget to read the pakku(8) and pakku.conf(5) man pages to read the full list of features!

Distribution compatibility

Pakku should work with Arch based distros although some minor aspects may not, unless distro specific support is included:

• pakku -Sz will only work with AUR packages
• pakku -Sn (to build binary packages from source) won't work.

Managing, searching and updating binary packages along with AUR packages will function correctly.