Installing AUR Helper Tool

The AUR is a community-driven repository for Arch Linux users. AUR helpers automate usage of the Arch User Repository. In particular, they may automate the following tasks:

• searching for packages published on the AUR;
• resolving of dependencies between AUR packages;
• retrieve and build AUR packages;
• retrieve web content, such as user comments;
• submission of AUR packages.

We are going to install Yay, which is a common AUR helper. We first install the required dependencies:

sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel

Then, we clone and enter the Yay repository:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay

Finally, we build it:

makepkg -si

Enter your sudo password when prompted and install any missing dependencies. We can now remove the cloned repository since it is no longer needed:

cd ..
rm -rf yay/

Common Operations