Yet Another Yogurt - An AUR Helper Written in Go

• Advanced dependency solving
• PKGBUILD downloading from ABS or AUR
• Completions for AUR packages
• Query user up-front for all input (prior to starting builds)
• Narrow search (yippee linux header will first search linux and then narrow on header)
• Find matching package providers during search and allow selection
• Remove make dependencies at the end of the build process
• Build local PKGBUILDs with AUR dependencies
• Un/Vote for packages

If you are migrating from another AUR helper, you can simply install Yippee with that helper.

The initial installation of Yippee can be done by cloning the PKGBUILD and building with makepkg:

We start with updating the package lists and make sure we have the base-devel package group installed.

pacman -Sy --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yippee.git
cd yippee
makepkg -si

If you want to do all of this at once, we can chain the commands like so:

pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yippee.git && cd yippee && makepkg -si

If you do not want to compile yippee yourself you can use the builds generated by GitHub Actions.

pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yippee-bin.git
cd yippee-bin
makepkg -si

If you want to do all of this at once, we can chain the commands like so:

pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yippee-bin.git && cd yippee-bin && makepkg -si

If you're using Manjaro or another distribution that packages yippee you can simply install yippee using pacman (as root):

pacman -S --needed git base-devel yippee

⚠️ distributions sometimes lag updating yippee on their repositories.

• Use yippee -Y --gendb to generate a development package database for *-git packages that were installed without yippee. This command should only be run once.

• yippee -Syu --devel will then check for development package updates

• Use yippee -Y --devel --save to make development package updates permanently enabled (yippee and yippee -Syu will then always check dev packages)

• Yippee does not display colored output. How do I fix it?

  Make sure you have the Color option in your /etc/pacman.conf (see issue #123).

• Sometimes diffs are printed to the terminal, and other times they are paged via less. How do I fix this?

  Yippee uses git diff to display diffs, which by default tells less not to page if the output can fit into one terminal length. This behavior can be overridden by exporting your own flags (export LESS=SRX).

• Yippee is not asking me to edit PKGBUILDS, and I don't like the diff menu! What can I do?

  yippee --editmenu --diffmenu=false --save

• How can I tell Yippee to act only on AUR packages, or only on repo packages?

  yippee -{OPERATION} --aur yippee -{OPERATION} --repo

• A Flagged Out Of Date AUR Packages message is displayed. Why doesn't Yippee update them?

  This message does not mean that updated AUR packages are available. It means the packages have been flagged out of date on the AUR, but their maintainers have not yet updated the PKGBUILDs (see outdated AUR packages).

• Yippee doesn't install dependencies added to a PKGBUILD during installation.

  Yippee resolves all dependencies ahead of time. You are free to edit the PKGBUILD in any way, but any problems you cause are your own and should not be reported unless they can be reproduced with the original PKGBUILD.

• I know my -git package has updates but yippee doesn't offer to update it

  Yippee uses an hash cache for development packages. Normally it is updated at the end of the package install with the message Found git repo. If you transition between aur helpers and did not install the devel package using yippee at some point, it is possible it never got added to the cache. yippee -Y --gendb will fix the current version of every devel package and start checking from there.

• I want to help out!

  Check CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.

All support related to Yippee should be requested via GitHub issues. Since Yippee is not officially supported by Arch Linux, support should not be sought out on the forums, AUR comments or other official channels.

A broken AUR package should be reported as a comment on the package's AUR page. A package may only be considered broken if it fails to build with makepkg.

Reports should be made using makepkg and include the full output as well as any other relevant information. Never make reports using Yippee or any other external tools.

• paru
• aurutils
• pikaur