2009/11/2 Giorgio <[email protected]>: > Here I little hack I coded to install packages directly from the AUR frontend. > > Needed: > - yaourt > - Firefox with greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/748) or > any greasemonkey-scripts accepting browser. > > Steps: > > 1. Create a small bash script called aur_opener.sh containing the > following code: > > #!/usr/bin/env bash > gnome-terminal -x /usr/bin/yaourt -S ${1//aur:\/\//} > > 2. Make the script executable > > 3. Open about:config in Firefox and add the following variable: > > network.protocol-handler.app.aur > > with value: > > path to aur_opener.sh > > >From now on, every time you click on a link like the following: > aur://pkgname yaourt will start. > > 4. Install the greasemonkey script AURlizer > (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/61015). > > 5. Visit any page on the AUR db. A new symbol [↓] will appear next to > the package name. Click on it and install! > > Enjoy. > PS > Obviously, it would be very easy to implement this directly into > yaourt / the AUR db. > > > -- > Giorgio F. Gilestro > http://www.gilestro.tk > +1 (608) 301 5864 > pgp id: 1024D/DE8D92BF >
Interesting work, cheers! Probably this setup could be done as a PKGBUILD (or at least most of it). Do you want to give that a try? Greg
