You NEED to know this before using an AUR Helper...

[@AnalyticMinded]

Cool series! I actually learned something about (Arch)Linux in what has seemed like forever. This is the kind of intermediate-level vid that I wish there was more of.

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Thanks! Glad you find these kinds of videos useful.

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Last video on the AUR for a while guys, I promise

[@r0yce]

Quite funny how you have to learn how to install an AUR helper from AUR manually only to learn later what an AUR helper is actually doing. As a guy who learned all of linux from arch wiki....these things make so much more sense.

[@jesse7631]

Eric, your videos are superb. Thanks for this good information!

[@yngvildrthevoracious]

Yay! I've been actively avoiding this but now there's a couple of packages when using my AUR helper brings up a wall of text which felt intimidating and made me close the terminal. Now I know how to try to do it myself! Yeah, I'm really a big noob because every other distro I was willing to try made Path of Exile crash, I'm literally just a noob Windows refugee lol

[@hhwilly-ng]

Thank you, informative stuff.

[@gijshollebolle]

second vid that is on whilst i browsing ur blog my very first impression was on the alternative frontends video, actually it started out with the firefox video, and my tought was so this "kiddo" is going to roast mozilla and teach me about privacy. LOL, my impression now is that i am quite impressed tbvh... keep it going dude rock on! you rock!

[@jabahuntercrypto]

My man, this was a great video! Thanks

[@Semisilentman]

Chaotic AUR ftw.

[@Anteksanteri]

I still wrote my own bare-bones aur helper that uses fzf for picking a package (just one). :D

[@madthumbs1564]

Paru doesn't require -S to install a package. To update you can just enter 'paru' - but topgrade does so much more.

[@EricMurphyxyz]

For installation it does require -S. Not sure what you mean, but updating can just be done with just the paru command. Will check out topgrade, it's on the list!

[@georgehope5477]

Great video. Thank you.

[@Belacthemighty]

I find myself wanting to do everything myself but at the same time i don't have time to be screwing with it 100% of the time 😂 im perfectly fine with being able to choose what does it for me

[@sklorpion]

Thanks! You didn't tell if after uninstall package I should\could delete what was downloaded by hand.

[@lqlarry]

Thanks!

[@itsfish8672]

GVE= great vid Eric

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Appreciate it!

[@necrotafeio]

what is that fancy terminal you using ?

[@nico1337]

Afaik enable notifications does not notify you when a package gets updated but only when a new comment was added.

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Isn't it both? I haven't personally used the feature but I've heard from those that do. Hope I didn't get that wrong.

[@nico1337]

@@EricMurphyxyz I'm maintaining some AUR packages and it's enabled by default for your own packages and I don't get update notifications. I've also enabled it for some packages not owned by me and I never received such an email .-.

[@shindradavid9845]

Can you install more RAM with yay? 😅

[@EricMurphyxyz]

You can download *almost* anything from the AUR 😛

[@ajaxmaxxer]

Nice, instructive video, thank you.

[@fossface]

Don't you have to manually install AUR helpers from the AUR? If you can do that, then it kind of defeats the purpose of saying you should know how to manually build it.

[@EricMurphyxyz]

Yes but many people (including myself) go through the installation process without an understanding of what they're doing, essentially just pasting in commands into a terminal

[@manhle1582]

I'm late, but distro like EndeavourOS ships yay by default. It's nice to see how they work before trying Arch myself.

[@felixfourcolor]

It's impossible to use an aur helper without knowing how to manually install aur packages, because the helpers themselves are aur packages 😂

[@RedVRCC]

I'll just stick with my dual boot tweaked windows 10 and linux mint... I don't have time for this shit unfortunately.

[@sys7emH4cked]

Great job 👍 #ericmurphy