paru
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Feb 10, 2026first mention
Jun 22, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“paru presents all pkgbuild diffs to you before installing, that's what I use to read them.”
“paru $PKG_NAME will give you a list of all possible packages”
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“You can open a terminal and type `paru jetbrains-toolbox`, hit enter a couple of times and it's installed.”
Linux user since the beginning, backend devon “The Switch to Linux and the Beginning of My Self-Hos…”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Also written as Paru. Data: paru.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“Yay and Paru both now support hooks”
“I've used three in my career as an Arch user:”
“such as `paru`, which asks you to review the PKGBUILD diff”
“The manager I use (paru) does”
“paru presents all pkgbuild diffs to you before installing, that's what I use to read them.”
“paru $PKG_NAME will give you a list of all possible packages”
“You can open a terminal and type `paru jetbrains-toolbox`, hit enter a couple of times and it's installed.”