LURE allows you to install your favorite software that may not be popular enough to be placed into your distro's repos, while preserving all the benefits of installing from repos, such as updates, easy uninstalling, etc. It also allows developers to provide a single place for their users to install their software.

LURE works by abstracting package formats and package managers. It builds native packages for your native package manager using AUR PKGBUILD-like bash scripts, then installs them using that package manager. This means that once LURE has successfully installed a package, it acts just like any other package and can be managed without LURE.