Yaourt is a community-contributed wrapper for pacman which adds seamless access to the AUR, allowing and automating package compilation and installation from your choice of the thousands of PKGBUILDs in the AUR, in addition to the many thousands of available Arch Linux binary packages.

Install

$ sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel

// download package-query package from AUR to ~/Downlaods manually
$ cd ~/Downloads
$ tar zxvf package-query.tar.gz
$ cd package-query
$ makepkg
$ sudo pacman -U package-query-1.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz

// download yaourt package from AUR to ~/Downlaods manually
$ tar zxvf yaourt.tar.gz
$ cd yaourt
$ makepkg
$ sudo pacman -U yaourt-1.5-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

Usage

Sync with repo: yaourt -Syua; Query package: yaourt -Ss customizepkg; Install package: yaourt -S customizepkg; Query local installed packages: yaourt -Q package-query; Remove package: yaourt -R customizepkg

See yaourt --help for details.