yay

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# yay

Yet Another Yogurt - An AUR Helper Written in Go

### Help translate yay: [Transifex](https://app.transifex.com/yay-1/yay/)

## Features

- Advanced dependency solving
- PKGBUILD downloading from ABS or AUR
- Completions for AUR packages
- Query user up-front for all input (prior to starting builds)
- Narrow search (`yay linux header` will first search `linux` and then narrow on `header`)
- Find matching package providers during search and allow selection
- Remove make dependencies at the end of the build process
- Build local PKGBUILDs with AUR dependencies
- Un/Vote for packages

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## Installation

If you are migrating from another AUR helper, you can simply install yay with that helper.

> [!WARNING]  
> We are using `sudo` in these examples. You can switch that out for a different privilege escalation tool.

### Source

The initial installation of yay can be done by cloning the PKGBUILD and
building with makepkg:

We make sure we have the `base-devel` package group installed.

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

If you want to do all of this at once, we can chain the commands like so:

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

### Binary

If you do not want to compile yay yourself you can use the builds generated by
GitHub Actions.

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

If you want to do all of this at once, we can chain the commands like so:

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

### Other distributions

If you're using Manjaro or [another distribution that packages `yay`](https://repology.org/project/yay/versions)
you can simply install yay using pacman (as root):

```sh
pacman -S --needed git base-devel yay
```
> [!WARNING]
> distributions sometimes lag updating yay on their repositories.

## First Use

#### Development packages upgrade

- Use