A simple shell script to quickly / easily install "pacaur" on archlinux

pacaur_install.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
#  !!! IMPORTANT !!!
#  As of 2017-12-14, pacaur is unmaintained (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1755144#p1755144)
#  For alternatives see the arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers#Active
#  pacaur seems to get occasional updates to fix breaking changes due to pacman updates though.
#
# If you are new to arch, I encourage you to at least read and understand what
# this script does befor blindley running it.
# That's why I didn't make a one-liner out of it so you have an easier time
# reading and understanding it :)
#
# This scripts purpose is purly to save you a few seconds on your new installation.
#
# Enjoy your time on an awesome system. Arch FTW!

# Run the following from a terminal to install pacaur:
# $ curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Tadly/0e65d30f279a34c33e9b/raw/pacaur_install.sh | bash
#
# In case you can't copy&paste you may use this shortend version. Keep in mind that goo.gl
# does tracking and analytics. You have been warned :)
# $ curl -Ls https://goo.gl/cF2iJy | bash
#
# Aforementioned statistics are public and can be accesed here (If you're interested):
# https://goo.gl/#analytics/goo.gl/QYfPju/all_time


# Make sure our shiny new arch is up-to-date
echo "Checking for system updates..."
sudo pacman -Syu

# Create a tmp-working-dir and navigate into it
mkdir -p /tmp/pacaur_install
cd /tmp/pacaur_install

# If you didn't install the "base-devel" group,
# we'll need those.
sudo pacman -S binutils make gcc fakeroot pkg-config --noconfirm --needed

# Install pacaur dependencies from arch repos
sudo pacman -S expac yajl git --noconfirm --needed

# Install "cower" from AUR
if [ ! -n "$(pacman -Qs cower)" ]; then
    curl -o PKGBUILD https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=cower
    makepkg PKGBUILD --skippgpcheck --install --needed
fi

# Install "pacaur" from AUR
if [ ! -n "$(pacman -Qs pacaur)" ]; then
    curl -o PKGBUILD https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=pacaur
    makepkg PKGBUILD --install --needed
fi

# Clean up...
cd ~
rm -r /tmp/pacaur_install

In new install I also had to pacman -Sy binutils gcc fakeroot make

@diogovk Running pacman -Syu after a fresh install is always a good idea (we don't want to run an out-dated system now do we :) )
But I'll add it to the gist, thanks for letting me know :)

maybe add --needed to those? I already had some of the packages installed

👍 --needed will be a good addition.

Another way to install these packages, which may be a little bit cleaner:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/cower.git &&
cd cower && makepkg -i && cd - &&
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pacaur.git &&
cd pacaur && makepkg -i && cd -

Also, the package group is called "base-devel" unless that pun is intended.

@nlowe @shameempk sorry, I don't get notifications for gists soooo.. Kinda missed that. Has now been added

@serialoverflow yeah that'd work too oh and no, that pun wasn't intended. That was me being silly :) (fixed now)

The compilation of cow was failing to me, the reason being that I didn't have all the packages frombase-devel installed.

@diogovk do you know which packages where missing?
Line 33 should take care of missing packages if base-devel isn't installed. If there's another one I can add it

i needed to manually install pkg-config (dependency of cower i think)

Confirmed - on a fresh build I needed pkg-config as well. Process worked fine otherwise.

Nice script! However, I had to run the script twice in order to install both (cower and pacaur) packages.

^ Me too.

^ me too

Awesome work!

When I first ran this script I didn't have pacaur but I did have cower. Running

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pacaur.git && cd pacaur && makepkg -i && cd -

installed pacaur.
Useful script, nevertheless!

Thanks!!!!

Greetz,
I just wanted to mention, that you should change pkg-config to pkgconf cause of the recent changes made by arch.
I also created a fork which includes the "patch" and the --color=always flag.
( Fork )

Cheers,

• TheGoliath