aurdex

aurdex is a CLI and terminal user interface (TUI) for browsing AUR package metadata.

• Filter and search packages by name, maintainer, status, and more
• View detailed metadata, dependencies, and reverse dependencies
• Explore package git repositories and commit history
• View package comments from aurweb
• Create and use profiles for customized views

Note: aurdex is not an AUR helper. It does not install or build packages. It’s designed for viewing package information and understanding dependency relationships.

Aurdex - A terminal UI for the Arch User Repository.

positional arguments:
  package_name          Display information for a specific package and exit.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  --list-profiles       List available profiles and exit.
  --profile PROFILE     Load a specific profile on startup.
  -s, --search TERM [TERM ...]
                        One or more search terms. Regular expressions are automatically detected (e.g.
                        '^lib.*').
  -l, --limit LIMIT     Limit results to integer limit. Defaults to 20, '-1' sets to infinite.
  -f, --filter key=value
                        Apply one or more filters (can be repeated and combined with --search). Example:
                        "-f maintainer=alice -f out_of_date" Supported keys: maintainer, source,
                        depends, makedepends, checkdepends, optdepends, provides, out_of_date,
                        abandoned, comaintainers, license, arch, submitter
  --deptree PACKAGE [PACKAGE ...]
                        Resolve and display the shallow dependency installation tree for one or more
                        packages.
  --deptree-deep PACKAGE [PACKAGE ...]
                        Resolve and display the deep dependency installation tree for one or more
                        packages.
  --rebuild             Force a full download and rebuild of the package database.
  --update              Download AUR metadata and update the package database.

Example cli usage:

$ aurdex -f abandoned -f out_of_date -l 5
Running search for '' with {'abandoned': 'true', 'out_of_date': 'true'}...
Printing directly...
'': Found 5 packages (limit: 5).
┏━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Source ┃ Name              ┃ Version             ┃
┡━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│    aur │ dict-gcide        │ 0.53-4              │
│    aur │ openide           │ 243.26053.27.8-1    │
│    aur │ friidump          │ 0.5.3.1-1           │
│    aur │ rsvndump          │ 0.6-1               │
│    aur │ aurvote-utils-git │ 1.0.0.r6.g07c9666-1 │
└────────┴───────────────────┴─────────────────────┘

$ aurdex --deptree waydroid
Resolving shallow dependency tree for: waydroid...
📦 Installation Plan
└── ✅ Step 1: Install Dependencies
    ├── Already satisfied
    │   ├── ✔️ bash
    │   ├── ✔️ dbus
    │   ├── ✔️ glib2
    │   ├── ✔️ glibc
    │   ├── ✔️ gmp
    │   ├── ✔️ gtk3
    │   ├── ✔️ libcap
    │   ├── ✔️ libidn2
    │   ├── ✔️ libnetfilter_conntrack
    │   ├── ✔️ libseccomp
    │   ├── ✔️ nettle
    │   ├── ✔️ nftables
    │   ├── ✔️ perl
    │   ├── ✔️ python
    │   ├── ✔️ python-dbus
    │   ├── ✔️ python-gobject
    │   ├── ✔️ rsync
    │   └── ✔️ wget
    ├── From Repositories
    │   ├── 📦 dnsmasq (2.91-1) (extra)
    │   └── 📦 lxc (1:6.0.4-2) (extra)
    └── From AUR
        ├── 🔨 libglibutil (1.0.80-1)
        ├── 🔨 libgbinder (1.1.42-2)
        ├── 🔨 python-gbinder (1.1.2-3)
        └── 🔨 waydroid (1.5.4-1)

Installation

The aurdex tool is available in the AUR (Arch User Repository).

You can install it using an AUR helper such as yay, paru, or manually via git.

Using an AUR helper (recommended)

yay -S aurdex

or

paru -S aurdex

Manual installation

Clone the package and build it with makepkg:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/aurdex.git
cd aurdex
makepkg -si