Report bugs, request features, send patches: http://github.com/skypher/paktahn/issues

Follow the source code at: http://github.com/skypher/paktahn

Contribute to the Wiki: http://wiki.github.com/skypher/paktahn

Paktahn is designed to be a successor to the popular Yaourt package manager.

It's a Pacman wrapper that also knows how to search and install packages from AUR.

Current advantages over Yaourt:

• allows use of alternative Pacman binaries (e.g. Powerpill)

• caches local dbs for exceptional speed (soon for AUR too!)

• way better security and extensibility

Usage hints

== Shortcut: pak

Paktahn comes with a symlink called "pak". Running pak without any arguments will list CLI options for paktahn.

== Interactive search/install mode

pak SEARCH

will search all dbs from pacman.conf (excluding local) and AUR for SEARCH in the name and description of packages.

== Install and remove package or packages

pak -S PKG(s), pak -R PKG(s)

will find and install or remove PKG(s) from sync dbs or AUR.

== Upgrade AUR packages

pak -Su --aur

will upgrade all installed AUR packages.

== Retrieve a PKGBUILD for AUR or binary packages

pak -G emacs, pak -G emacs-clojure-mode-git, etc

will pull the PKGBUILD from SVN for binary packages and retrieve it from AUR otherwise.

Common config file settings

== Use Powerpill/Clyde/etc instead of Pacman

In your ~/.paktahn/config.lisp:

(in-package :pak) (setf pacman-binary "powerpill")

This assumes that powerpill is in your $PATH.

== Set a different color scheme

In your ~/.paktahn/config.lisp:

(in-package :pak) (setf color-scheme color-scheme-lightbg)

Available color schemes are color-scheme-darkbg (the default) and color-scheme-lightbg.

== Use unipkg instead of makepkg

(in-package :pak) (setf makepkg-binary "unipkg")

== Storing built packages

(in-package :pak) (setf save-packages "/tmp/mypackages/") ; mind the trailing slash

Just store packages, don't install them:

(in-package :pak) (setf save-packages "/tmp/mypackages/") ; mind the trailing slash (setf save-packages-only t)

How do I build this thing?!

See PKGBUILD.