Yay

Yet Another Yogurt - An AUR Helper Written in Go

Packages

Objectives

There's a point in everyone's life when you feel the need to write an AUR helper because there are only about 20 of them. So say hi to 20+1.

Yay is based on the design of yaourt, apacman and pacaur. It is developed with these objectives in mind:

• Provide an interface for pacman
• Yaourt-style interactive search/install
• Minimal dependencies
• Minimize user input
• Know when git packages are due for upgrades

Features

• Perform advanced dependency solving
• Download PKGBUILDs from ABS or AUR
• Tab-complete the AUR
• Query user up-front for all input (prior to starting builds)
• Narrow search terms (

  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
• Run without sourcing PKGBUILD

Installation

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

Alternatively, the initial installation of Yay can be done by cloning the PKGBUILD and building with makepkg:

Before you begin, make sure you have the

base-devel

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

Support

All support related to Yay should be requested via GitHub issues. Since Yay is not officially supported by Arch Linux, support should not be sought out on the forums, AUR comments or other official channels.

A broken AUR package should be reported as a comment on the package's AUR page. A package may only be considered broken if it fails to build with makepkg. Reports should be made using makepkg and include the full output as well as any other relevant information. Never make reports using Yay or any other external tools.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yay does not display colored output. How do I fix it?

Make sure you have the

Color

/etc/pacman.conf

Yay is not prompting to skip packages during system upgrade.

The default behavior was changed after v8.918 (see 3bdb534 and issue #554). To restore the package-skip behavior use

--combinedupgrade

--save

Sometimes diffs are printed to the terminal, and other times they are paged via less. How do I fix this?

Yay uses

git diff

export LESS=SRX

Yay is not asking me to edit PKGBUILDS, and I don't like the diff menu! What can I do?

yay --editmenu --nodiffmenu --save

How can I tell Yay to act only on AUR packages, or only on repo packages?

yay -{OPERATION} --aur

yay -{OPERATION} --repo

An

Out Of Date AUR Packages

message is displayed. Why doesn't Yay update them?

This message does not mean that updated AUR packages are available. It means the packages have been flagged out of date on the AUR, but their maintainers have not yet updated the

PKGBUILD

Yay doesn't install dependencies added to a PKGBUILD during installation.

Yay resolves all dependencies ahead of time. You are free to edit the PKGBUILD in any way, but any problems you cause are your own and should not be reported unless they can be reproduced with the original PKGBUILD.

I know my

-git

package has updates but yay doesn't offer to update it

Yay uses an hash cache for development packages. Normally it is updated at the end of the package install with the message

Found git repo

yay -Y --gendb

I want to help out!

Check CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.

Examples of Custom Operations

| Command | Description | | ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |

yay 

yay -Ps

yay -Yc

yay -G 

yay -Y --gendb

yay -Syu --devel --timeupdate

Images

Other AUR helpers/tools

• Paru
• aurutils
• pikaur