This tutorial is going to show you how to install Yaourt on Arch Linux via command line. Yaourt is a command line interface program which complete pacman for installing software on Arch Linux and all derivatives such as Manjaro, Antergos, ArchLabs and many more. On this situation, Arch Linux does not have any Graphical package manager installed and all I have is Terminal console access. So, the following steps will guide you how to deal with Yaourt installation via command line.
Steps to install Yaourt on Arch Linux
Step 1. Install git
Please skip this step if you have git installed already on Arch
sudo pacman -S git
Step 2. Download and configure Yaourt
Now execute the following commands in sequence to start installing Yaourt on Arch. If you have an error when executing makepkg command, please read this solution.
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/package-query.git cd package-query makepkg -si cd .. git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yaourt.git cd yaourt makepkg -si
When all steps are completed, you can now use yaourt to install packages from AUR repository. For example:
yaourt -S pamac-aur
Thank you
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