Breaking something with AUR packages is something I sometimes feel a little concerned about. I’m aware that Manjaro does not fully support the Arch User Repository, but I only have a few programs installed through the AUR. But everyone online always said “be careful” when using the AUR or you could …

To tell a few: AUR may have the same package as the one in the official repository, make sure you know which one you ACTUALLY want to install, as this might differ in version, features, whatever, can really be anything and can break anything that depends on it Some dependencies might be dropped to…

How should I "be careful" when using the AUR?

Support AUR

Mirdarthos 29 October 2022 06:56 2

Edit:

Familiarise yourself with BASH scripting. Use said knowledge to judge the safety of an AUR package by seeing what its .PKGBUILD file does.