Yay is an AUR helper written in go. It is a wrapper around pacman and makepkg. It is designed to be used with the Arch User Repository to provide an easy way to install packages from the AUR (e.g. vscode).
Installation
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sudo pacman -S --noconfirm base-devel
sudo git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
sudo chown -R $USER:users ./yay
sudo chown -W $USER:users ./yay
cd yay
makepkg -si
cd ../
sudo rm -fr yay
- update all packages
yay -Syu --noconfirm - install a package
yay -S --noconfirm <package> - remove a package
yay -R --noconfirm <package> - list installed packages
yay -Q - search for a package
yay -Ss <package>
You can add --noconfirm to execute without confirmation.