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:

  sudo pacman -S git

• Install using git:

  git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git cd yay makepkg -si

• Install binary (Optional)

  git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git cd yay-bin makepkg -si

Commands

Some basics to get you started:

• Install a package:

  yay -S <package>

• Remove a package:

  yay -R <package> yay -Rns <package> # <- remove package and dependencies

• System upgrade:

  yay -Syu # <- includes all packages even if installed with pacman yay # <- this does the same thing yay -Syu --devel # <- includes -git installed packges

• Search for a package

  yay -Ss <package> # <- this will just search yay <package> # <- this will search and ask if you want to install yay -Si <package> # <- this will get info about the package, including dependencies

• List out packages that need to be updated:

  yay -Pu

• Clean up unused dependencies

  yay -Yc

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

yay -Slq | fzf -m --preview 'cat <(yay -Si {1}) <(yay -Fl {1} | awk "{print \$2}")' | xargs -ro yay -S

Links

yay

AUR

ArchWiki