Install packages from AUR with yay

What is the AUR?

The AUR is the Arch User Repository, it essentially holds a bunch of packages

from the Arch community not found in the official repository.

What is yay?

yay stands for Yet Another Yogurt

yay is like pacman but for the AUR

It's written in Go

Install yay

  • Make sure you have git:

  • Install using git:

  • Install binary (Optional)

Commands

Some basics to get you started:

  • Install a package:

  • Remove a package:

  • System upgrade:

  • Search for a package

  • List out packages that need to be updated:

  • Clean up unused dependencies

Remember man yay should be your goto

Note on different types of packages

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Enable color output

Make sure you have the Color option set in your /etc/pacman.conf

AUR can be dangerous

Technically not all of the content up there is vetted.

So make sure what you download has lots of votes or that you have inspected the source code

FZF Search

Links

yay

AUR

ArchWiki


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