Yaourt or Yet AnOther User Repository Tool is a package helper similar to packer that allows user to easily install packages from Arch User Repository. Yaourt is not in the official repository so it needs to be installed manually like any other AUR package without a package helper.

Install required dependencies.

sudo pacman -S --needed wget

Create a temporary installation directory and change current directory to it.

mkdir yaourt && cd yaourt

Install Package Query

Download the package build script from AUR.

wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=package-query

Rename the downloaded file.

mv PKGBUILD?h=package-query PKGBUILD

Compile and build the package.

makepkg -s

Install the newly created package.

sudo pacman -U package-query-1.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

The -U option specifies a package that is not from the Pacman repositories. Check the exact name of the created package with the ls command and replace the name of the package if different

Empty the temporary installation directory.

rm -rf *

Install Yaourt

Download the package build script from AUR.

wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=yaourt

Rename the downloaded file.

mv PKGBUILD?h=yaourt PKGBUILD

Compile and build the package.

makepkg

Install the newly created package.

sudo pacman -U yaourt-1.7-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

The -U option specifies a package that is not from the Pacman repositories. Check the exact name of the created package with the ls command and replace the name of the package if different

Remove the temporary installation directory.

cd .. && rm -Rd yaourt