How to Install yay on Arch

If you want to use packages from the AUR you'll need to install a AUR helper like yay or paru. In this guide, I'm going to show you how to install yay.

Installation

First we'll have to make sure the base-devel package is installed and install git.

$ sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel

Then we'll clone the yay repo enter it:

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
# And change directory into it
$ cd yay

Now we can build it with makepkg.

$ makepkg -si

Alternatively you can also run this chained command:

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

This simple guide showed you how to install yay on Arch.

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