2009/11/2 Giorgio <giorgio@gilestro.tk>:

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