Need more beginner friendly instructions

[Shotweb]

Hello,

I'm sure that for any programmers, power users, Linux veterans, greybeards, whitehats, comp sci majors, mensa members etc., the two sentences "No installation, no dependencies — just Python 3.14+ and a checkout of this repo. Run the package directly with python -m aur_check" makes perfect, obvious sense.

But I'm embarrassed to admit that for me, it just doesn't. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with that. I'm just a regular schmuck. I know there's a concept of cloning a git repo, but I don't know by heart how it's done, and even degrading myself to get the help of an AI, I can't get it working. Since it is a matter of security, I would really and humbly appreciate some precise instructions from someone who, in contrast to me, know what they are doing.

[Technetium1]

You might be missing the green Code button on the repository's main page. It contains the different URLs available for cloning, for example HTTP: git clone https://github.com/lenucksi/aur-malware-check.git. You don't have to clone, you can also just download the zip and extract it. Once you have a folder with the code you must change your working directory to it cd ~/Downloads/aur-malware-check. Then you can run it as shown in the quickstart section of the readme.

[ILikePapyrus]

Hi! I too had difficulties when i started with Linux (especially Arch). After some practice I started to understand how Git works, and now it comes naturally to me. These are the commands i followed to use this software, hope they help:

1. cd ~/Documents/
2. git clone https://github.com/lenucksi/aur-malware-check
3. cd aur-malware-check/
4. python -m aur_check

Now, if you have not installed your dependencies it will give you an error, otherwise it will work. Usually you just have to install python (if you don't have it) using your package manager of choice (for Arch you just use pacman / yay).

When you use the command git clone you are telling git to create a folder with the repository name in the location where you are executing the command, and put inside it every file that is in the repository. The command creates a local copy of the repository, that is remote (on Github's server in this case).

If you're having difficulty understanding git (which is a fundamental software, especially for Arch), i suggest you look at a Git cheat sheet, such as this one made by Github. If you don't understand how branches work, look at this cheat sheet made by Git, which has diagrams that show the before and after of a command.

Hope I helped :)

[Shotweb]

Thank you, got it working now.

[musqz]

@Shotweb
Now you have the git ;)

Next time when there are new commits, you can do:

1. cd /to/the/repo/git
2. git pull
3. python -m aur_check

[lenucksi]

I think this looks done. And more like a discussion. So I'll convert it to that.