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+# Arch package docker-squash
+
+[docker-squash](https://github.com/jwilder/docker-squash) is a utility to squash multiple docker layers into one in order to create an image with fewer and smaller layers.
+
+
+## Install using an AUR helper
+
+[AUR Helpers](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers) provide a simpler interface to the Arch User Repository. There are serveral tools that allow to build an install an AUR package using a single command.
+
+* `yaourt docker-squash`
+* `aura -A docker-squash`
+* `pacaur -y docker-squash`
+
+## Build and install the package
+
+[Installing packages from AUR](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines#Installing_packages) can be done manually:
+
+* Clone the [docker-squash AUR repository](https://aur.archlinux.org/foo.git)
+ `git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/docker-squash.git`
+* Change into the cloned repository
+ `cd docker-squash`
+* Inspect the package
+ `vi PKGBUILD`
+* Build and install the package
+ `makepkg -srci`