e2guardian on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: June 29,2024

1. Install "e2guardian" 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 e2guardian on Arch using YAY

* (Optional) Uninstall e2guardian on Arch using YAY

2. Manually Install "e2guardian" 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 e2guardian's git locally


    
        
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                git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/e2guardian.git 
            
                        
                ~/e2guardian
            
                    
    
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c. Go to ~/e2guardian folder and install it


   
    
        
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                cd
            
                        
                ~/e2guardian
            
                    
    
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                makepkg -si
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the e2guardian package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 1388106
Name: e2guardian
PackageBaseID: 103662
PackageBase: e2guardian
Version: 5.5.3r-3
Description: Fork of dansguardian, an open source web content filter. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, request header and URL filtering, etc. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites.
URL: http://e2guardian.org
NumVotes: 5
Popularity: 0
OutOfDate: 1707696941
Maintainer: mhdna
Submitter: Prophecy
FirstSubmitted: 1448190486
LastModified: 1705574922
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/e2guardian.tar.gz