visual-grep on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "visual-grep" 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 visual-grep on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -S
            
                        
                visual-grep
            
                    
    
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* (Optional) Uninstall visual-grep on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -Rns
            
                        
                visual-grep
            
                    
    
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2. Manually Install "visual-grep" 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 visual-grep's git locally


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


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

ID: 281825
Name: visual-grep
PackageBaseID: 103911
PackageBase: visual-grep
Version: 0.30-1
Description: A GTK 3 based GUI for grep
URL: http://github.com/gnunn1/vgrep
NumVotes: 4
Popularity: 0
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: gnunn
Submitter: gnunn
FirstSubmitted: 1448737565
LastModified: 1457203090
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/visual-grep.tar.gz