Cower.md

Cower

Instructions on installing and using Cower to maintain Arch AUR packages.

1. Downdoad the tarball

2. Untar the package:

tar xzvf cower.tar.gz 

3. cd into the directory:

cd cower

4. Use the makepkg with sync flag -s:

makepkg -s

5. Install Cower to your sytem:

makepkg -i

6. Usage

6.1 Search function:

Searches the AUR for packages

cower -s {package name}

6.2 Download and install

Download the package then install using the makepkg command:

cower -d {package name}

7. Updating AUR packages

Use the cower command with the -u flag for finding packages that needs updating and -d for downloading them.

cower -ud

7.1 Installing updates:

The following pattern is useful for finding the exeuting the makepkg command on all the PKBUILD so that we don't have to do it for each package

find . -name PKGBUILD -execdir makepkg -si \;

Instructional video can be found here