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trizen
10 Recommendations
aurutils
4 Recommendations
pikaur
4 Recommendations
Aura
11 Recommendations
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Yaourt
42 Recommendations
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What are the best AUR helpers for Arch-based Linux distributions?

Pros

cosmo

Pro
Intuitive CLI

Yay's commands and output make sense for anyone used to the pacman package manager.

cosmo

Pro
Written in Go

The compiled program is snappy while the source is easy to read.

Yoshiyuki
AdventurousSopdet

Pro
Doesn't rebuild already-installed apps like Trizen

Francisco
cosmo

Pro
Available as a precompiled binary

Both yay and yay-bin are in the AUR, the latter of which doesn't require any dependencies or compilation, making installation and updates quick and painless.

Commonly Compared

yay
vs
trizen
10 Recommendations
aurutils
4 Recommendations
pikaur
4 Recommendations
Aura
11 Recommendations
Pakku
1 Recommendations
Yaourt
42 Recommendations
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