Yet Another Yogurt: A utility for Arch Linux to build and install packages from the Arch User Repository. Also see
pacman. More information: GitHub - Jguer/yay: Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go.
- Interactively search and install packages from the repos and AUR:
yay {{package_name|search_term}}
- Synchronize and update all packages from the repos and AUR:
yay
- Synchronize and update only AUR packages:
yay -Sua
- Install a new package from the repos and AUR:
yay -S {{package_name}}
- Remove an installed package and both its dependencies and configuration files:
yay -Rns {{package_name}}
- Search the package database for a keyword from the repos and AUR:
yay -Ss {{keyword}}
- Remove orphaned packages (installed as dependencies but not required by any package):
yay -Yc
- Show statistics for installed packages and system health:
yay -Ps