Post by @hawthornbunny@equestria.social

2026-06-25 19:27 UTC

@Karcsesz@equestria.social hmmmm, so if I've only ever installed packages via `sudo pacman` (even ones from the "extra" repository), does that mean I've never actually used the AUR? I just assumed that the AUR is where "extra/" packages come from since whenever I search for my packages, the AUR site is where I find them.

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@Karcsesz@equestria.social 2026-06-26 05:05

@hawthornbunny@equestria.social Yeah, pretty much. It's possible the packages you find were brought into the official repositories because they were popular AUR packages beforehand. Though please share an example package so I can check what's up for sure c:

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@ashy@equestria.social 2026-06-26 15:44

@hawthornbunny@equestria.social @Karcsesz@equestria.social you can also search for packages from the command-line using 'pacman -Ss'

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@ashy@equestria.social 2026-06-26 15:48

@hawthornbunny@equestria.social @Karcsesz@equestria.social but yeah the aur is a completely separate thing to the normal arch package repositories, it doesn't work the same way at all. You can't just add it to your pacman repository list and download aur packages, you have to either download and build/install them locally or use a completely separate program to automate that process.

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