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A pacman wrapper that adds seamless access to the Arch User Repository (AUR).

From the ArchWiki:

Yaourt (Yet AnOther User Repository Tool) is a community-contributed wrapper for pacman which adds seamless access to the AUR, allowing and automating package compilation and installation from your choice of the thousands of PKGBUILDs in the AUR, in addition to the many thousands of available Arch Linux binary packages.

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How do I unset a variable at the command line?

I have tried the following command to set Proxy on yaourt: export ALL_PROXY=http://proxy.example.com:8080 The question is how to unset the proxy on yaourt? In general, how can I unset the value of a variable in the current shell?
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How can I responsibly run updates automatically on Arch Linux?

I'm a bit of a newcomer to Arch Linux and still getting used to some of its paradigms. I come with a lot of habits from another distro that was quite a bit more structured and in some ways predictable. One thing I would like to do with a few…
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Check for updates of packages installed through yaourt

Is there anyway to update package installed with yaourt ? yaourt -Syu seems to do the same as pacman -Syu, which only care about package in official repository.
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How to recognize harmful AUR packages

How do I recognize if a package which is installed via yaourt on arch linux could be harmful to my pc? I read in the wiki that I should check every installation I make with yourt. But what exactly do I have to check and how do I recognize malicious…
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Error updating all ArchLinux packages with -Syu

I am on Arch Linux with Kde. I haven't updated the packages in a while and I'm having a problem while trying to do so: The first thing I tried was: sudo pacman -Syu as the documentation says, and I get this error: :: Synchronizing package…
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Make yaourt does not reinstall when already installed

Is there a way to make yaourt does not reinstall when the package (from AUR) already installed $ yaourt -Q jruby local/jruby 1.7.3-1 but somehow $ yaourt --needed --noconfirm -S jruby keep redownload (even if it has been downloaded before) and…
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How to recreate a package file from installed package?

I used yaourt to successfully build and install an AUR package, unfortunately missing the fact that in its default configuration the built package is removed after installation. Since the build took around 24 hours and having the package available…
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Arch: Is yaourt deprecated?

I came across this article saying that yaourt is deprecated. I wanted to look up more information about that on Arch Wiki, but found that yaourt is not listed on the list of AUR helpers, which is bewildering. Is yaourt really deprecated? If so, what…
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How to use yaourt on arch linux under proxy?

How do I install applications using yaourt under proxy network. For pacman I can simply use: export http_proxy=http://usernm:passwd@link:port sudo -E pacman -S application But how do I do this for yaourt as it is not used with sudo priveledges.
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preserving colors when piping yaourt through sort

Can sort preserve piped in colors? I'm trying to modify yaourt -Qu | sort so I get color output. Tried googling this but I couldn't find a general way nor a special way to do this for sort.
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How do you list installed meta packages on Arch Linux?

I'd like to list all meta packages that I installed. Installed with pikaur or pacman operating system is Arch Linux Problem When I install plasma-meta and run pacman -Qg, I can only see plasma. This is, of course, the expected behavior given for…
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Arch Linux - make: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring

I keep getting this same error when trying to install various packages: make: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory It's occurred while trying to install the Ruby gem Gosu…
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ERROR: target not found: yaourt

I'm new to arch so any help on this subject is much appreciated. I have been trying to install yaourt on manjaro, but this is the error message I receive. [manjaro@manjaro-pc ~]$ sudo pacman -S yaourt error: target not found: yaourt
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Yaourt: how to list dependencies for a package?

How can I list the dependencies for a given package? I thought this should be an easy task for Google, but I only found yaourt -Sq --depends , which lists all packages that depend on . I was not able to find the other way around: list all…
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How to force yaourt to install all updates

I'm trying to update my system via yaourt, but I'm getting an error due to a python package installed with pip instead of yaourt. I'm not succeeding in forcing yaourt to install the update, and I'd like to avoid to remove the package with pip and…
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