butter on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: January 04,2025

1. Install "butter" effortlessly via AUR with the help of a helper(YAY)

a. Install YAY (https://github.com/Jguer/yay)


    
        
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                sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si
            
                    
    
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b. Install butter on Arch using YAY

* (Optional) Uninstall butter on Arch using YAY

2. Manually Install "butter" via AUR

a. Ensure you have the base development tools and git installed with:


    
        
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                sudo pacman -S --needed
            
                        
                base-devel git
            
                    
    
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b. Clone butter's git locally


    
        
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                git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/butter.git 
            
                        
                ~/butter
            
                    
    
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c. Go to ~/butter folder and install it


   
    
        
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                cd
            
                        
                ~/butter
            
                    
    
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                makepkg -si
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the butter package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 1386943
Name: butter
PackageBaseID: 105528
PackageBase: butter
Version: 12-1
Description: butter is a btrfs snapshot manager
URL: https://github.com/moviuro/butter
NumVotes: 2
Popularity: 5.0E-6
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: Moviuro
Submitter: Moviuro
FirstSubmitted: 1451936538
LastModified: 1705417225
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/butter.tar.gz