Arch Build System

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The Arch Build System is a system for building packages from source code, similar to BSD ports. It compiles sources through ABS (a specialized tool for building .pkg.tar.gz packages) and then helps manage (install/remove/upgrade, etc.) the binary packages through pacman.

See also

• ArchLinux
• Arch User Repository (AUR; aur)
• pacman
• PKGBUILD
• makepkg
• Aura

Favorite site

• Arch Build System - ArchWiki