diff --git a/.config/i3/blocks/updates b/.config/i3/blocks/updates
index 0e06ade..2f58109 100755
--- a/.config/i3/blocks/updates
+++ b/.config/i3/blocks/updates
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import os
 
 button = os.environ.get('BLOCK_BUTTON')
 if button == '1':
-  os.system("i3-sensible-terminal -e 'yaourt -Syua'")
+  os.system("i3-sensible-terminal -e 'pacaur -Syu'")
 
 updates = commands.getstatusoutput("/usr/bin/checkupdates | wc -l")[1]
 if updates and updates != '0':
diff --git a/.config/pacaur/config b/.config/pacaur/config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..11a7b51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.config/pacaur/config
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+displaybuildfiles=none                # display build files (none|diff|full)
+sudoloop=false                        # prevent sudo timeout
+
+#editor="${EDITOR:-vi}"                # build files editor
+#fallback=true                         # pacman fallback to the AUR
+#silent=false                          # silence output
+#sortby=popularity                     # sort method (name|votes|popularity)
+#sortorder=descending                  # sort order (ascending|descending)
diff --git a/.yaourtrc b/.yaourtrc
deleted file mode 100644
index d44f681..0000000
--- a/.yaourtrc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-#    yaourtrc  - Configuration for yaourt
-#
-#   See yaourtrc(5) for more information
-#
-#
-
-# General
-#AUTOSAVEBACKUPFILE=0
-#DEVELSRCDIR=""
-#DEVEL=0
-#VISUAL="$VISUAL"
-#EDITOR="$EDITOR"
-#FORCEENGLISH=0
-#FORCE=0
-#TMPDIR="/tmp"
-#NO_TESTDB=0
-
-# SUDO
-#SUDONOVERIF=0      # Avoid multiple sudo checks when timestamp_timeout=0
-#SUDOREDIRECT=1     # Define to 0 in case you use a fingerprint device
-
-# ABS
-#USE_GIT=0
-# If the package "abs" is installed, those var are parsed from abs.conf
-#REPOS=()           # REPOS available at $SYNCSERVER
-#SYNCSERVER=""
-
-# AUR
-#AURURL="https://aur.archlinux.org"
-#AURCOMMENT=5
-#AURDEVELONLY=0
-#AURSEARCH=1
-#AURUPGRADE=0
-#AURVOTE=1
-#AURUSEGIT=0
-
-# Build
-#EXPORT=0           # Export to 1: EXPORTDIR or PKGDEST
-                    # 2: pacman cache (as root)
-#EXPORTSRC=0        # Need EXPORT>0 to be used
-#EXPORTDIR=""       # If empty, use makepkg's connfiguration (see makepkg.conf)
-
-# Prompt
-#NOCONFIRM=0
-#UP_NOCONFIRM=0     # No prompt while build upgrades (including -Sbu)
-#PU_NOCONFIRM=0     # Add --noconfirm to $PACMAN -U
-#NOENTER=1
-BUILD_NOCONFIRM=1
-EDITFILES=0
-
-# Output
-#USECOLOR=1
-#USEPAGER=0
-#DETAILUPGRADE=1
-#SHOWORPHANS=1
-#TERMINALTITLE=1
-
-# Command
-#PACMAN="pacman"
-#MAKEPKG="makepkg"
-#DIFFEDITCMD="vimdiff"
-
-# pacdiffviewer
-#P_LOCATE=0         # Use locate instead of find
-#P_SEARCHDIR=(/etc/ /boot/)
-#P_SAVEDIR='/var/lib/yaourt/backupfiles'
diff --git a/aliases b/aliases
index 07ca9fe..0607373 100644
--- a/aliases
+++ b/aliases
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ alias tree='tree -C'
 
 # System aliases
 alias s=systemctl
-alias y=yaourt
+alias p=pacaur
 alias ps='ps aux'
 
 # File default aliases
@@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ alias ssha='eval `ssh-agent` ; ssh-add'
 alias aliases="$EDITOR $DOTFILES/aliases ; source ~/.zshrc"
 alias vimrc="$EDITOR ~/.vimrc"
 alias zshrc="$EDITOR ~/.zshrc ; source ~/.zshrc"
-alias yaourtrc="$EDITOR ~/.yaourtrc"
 alias xinitrc="$EDITOR ~/.xinitrc"
 alias xresources="$EDITOR ~/.Xresources ; xrdb merge ~/.Xresources"
 alias xsession="$EDITOR ~/.xsession"
diff --git a/packages b/packages
index b7eba8b..2aa0d4a 100644
--- a/packages
+++ b/packages
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ compton
 cups
 deluge
 dos2unix
+cower
 dosfstools
 dropbox
 dunst
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ efibootmgr
 eog
 evince
 exfat-utils
+expac
 feh
 firefox
 gdmap
@@ -73,6 +75,7 @@ nvidia
 oh-my-zsh-git
 openssh
 p7zip
+pacaur
 pavucontrol
 pkgfile
 powertop
@@ -125,6 +128,5 @@ xorg-xinit
 xorg-xrdb
 xournal-git
 xtitle
-yaourt
 zsh
 zsh-syntax-highlighting
diff --git a/scripts/install-pacaur b/scripts/install-pacaur
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..438922e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/install-pacaur
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+if [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then
+    echo "You cannot run makepkg as root."
+    echo "Please run this script again as a non-elevated user"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Install dependencies
+sudo pacman -S --asdeps git curl yajl gnupg
+
+mkdir cower && cd cower
+
+# Get PGP keys so it builds
+gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu 1EB2638FF56C0C53
+
+# Fetch, build and install cower
+curl https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=cower > PKGBUILD 
+makepkg -sri
+
+# Fetch, build and install pacaur
+cd .. && mkdir pacaur && cd pacaur
+curl https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=pacaur > PKGBUILD 
+makepkg -sri
+
+cd ..
+rm -rf cower pacaur
diff --git a/scripts/install-yaourt b/scripts/install-yaourt
deleted file mode 100755
index 6c89d64..0000000
--- a/scripts/install-yaourt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-#if [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then
-#    echo "You cannot run makepkg as root."
-#    echo "Please run this script again as a non-elevated user"
-#    exit 1
-#fi
-
-# Install git, yajl dependencies
-sudo pacman -S --asdeps yajl git
-
-cd /tmp
-git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/package-query.git
-cd package-query
-sudo -u nobody makepkg -sr
-sudo pacman -U `ls | grep package-query.*\.tar\.xz'
-
-cd ..
-git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yaourt.git
-cd yaourt
-sudo -u nobody makepkg -sr
-sudo pacman -U `ls | grep yaourt.*\.tar\.xz'
-
-cd ..
-rm -rf package-query yaourt