Yay

A aur helper and a pacman wrapper
git link
remember to read this to know how aur packages are traditionally installed

Contents

Install Yay

On Arch

sudo pacman --needed -S base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

On Manjaro

sudo pacman --needed -S yay base-devel
--needed is so that packages in the base-devel group are not reinstalled unnecesssarily
press enter to whatever it asks you

Install packages


search and select what to install
yay searchterm
if you know the packages name you can
yay -S packagename

Update everything


if you've installed aur packages without yay before run
yay -Y --gendb
this generates the database needed for updating git/devel packages

this will update everything including -git packages from the aur (add a to the -Syu to update only aur packages)
yay -Syu --devel --timeupdate

Enable color

sudo sed -i 's/^#Color/Color/' /etc/pacman.conf
yay colors

Get pkgbuild


yay has the ability to download pkgbuild's from the aur and abs
yay -G packagename

Clear cache


clears ~/.cache/yay
yay -Sc

Remove Yay

sudo pacman -R yay