Just a quick post to improve your experience with yaourt. For many it will be straighforward but maybe it will be useful for others. If yaourt asks too much... If you fed up with these questions asked all the time by yaourt: Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort) Edit <pkg_name>.install ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort) Continue building <pkg_name> ? [Y/n] The simple solution is to create a .yaourtrc under you