# paru

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/paru/

5 people recommended paru in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 12 months, in 3 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** An Arch Linux AUR helper that shows PKGBUILD diffs before installing and makes finding and installing packages easy. One critic has switched to yay instead.

Summary written by Claude from 6 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Easy package search and install (3 comments in the sample): "paru $PKG_NAME will give you a list of all possible packages relating to that" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46969767)) "You can open a terminal and type `paru jetbrains-toolbox" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966916)) "paru makes it really easy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507593))

## What people recommend instead

- [yay](https://hackerapproved.com/p/yay/): 8 recommend, 3 mixed, 6 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "paru", https://hackerapproved.com/p/paru/ (5 recommend, 1 mixed, 1 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.