Paru -- The New AUR Helper

April 6, 2021

paru 是什么？⚓

paru v1.0.0 and stepping away from yay
Last week I announced my new AUR helper paru.
Since then a lot of testing has gone in and a lot of bugs fixed by me and help from contributors.
So I am now announcing paru v1.0.0 and consider it stable.
I’d also like to mention I no longer plan to work on yay. I’ve been co-developing yay with jguer over the past 3 years. Most of the features and design being done by me.
I’ve had no motivation and no real involvement with the project for quite a while now. So I’m officially deciding to move on to something new.
Jguer is still there, so there’s no need to panic and move away from yay. Just don’t expect much new development on it.

所以， parau 的作者之前也是yay的共同开发者。yay 是采用 Golang 编写的 AUR helper, 而新的 paru 采用 Rust 实现。

changes from yay⚓

paru 首个版本发布时，作者在release log 里描述了它与 yay 的区别。

Added⚓

Added –nocheck
Added –develsuffixes
Added –installDebug
Added NoWarn
Added syntax highlighting to pkgbuild printing
Auto detection for pacman-git. Paru will build against pacman-git’s API

Removed⚓

Remove –timeupdate, –requestsplitn
Remove –save -Pg –Pd -Ps
Remove -Gf
Remove –cleanmenu
Remove -Y/–yay, stuff like –gendb still work even though they belonged to -Y

Changed⚓

List based flags now append instead of overwriting existing settings
Packages are now cloned to ~/.cache/paru/clone by default
Use asp for repo pkgbuilds
Improve news printing
Formatting changes to be more pacman like
-Yc accounts for makedeps for aur packages
Devel info is now saved to devel.json
Devel info schema change
Sources are no longer downloaded in batch
Only treat packages matching develsuffixes as devel

如何安装paru⚓

# archlinux cn repo users
sudo pacman -S paru

# other users
sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git
cd paru
makepkg -si

paru常用操作⚓

paru : 相当于 paru -Syu （If no arguments are provided ‘paru -Syu’ will be performed）
paru <用户输入>：搜索并安装“用户输入”
paru -Sua：仅升级 AUR 包。
paru -Qua：打印可用的 AUR 更新
paru -Gc <用户输入>：显示“用户输入”的 AUR 评论