How to Install Yay AUR Helper in Arch Based Distribution

If you use Arch Linux or Arch based Linux distributions, you may know about AUR Helper. Today we will install Yay AUR Helper on our Arch Linux. You can follow the same steps to install it in other Arch based distributions like Manjaro, Black Arch etc.

To install Yay, we first need to install Git. If you do not have Git installed, run the following command and install it.

sudo pacman -Sy git --noconfirm

As we have installed Git, we will run the following command and clone Yay Repository

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-git.git

After cloning the Yay repository, we will navigate to the yay directory by running the following command

cd yay-git

Now, we will build and install the package by using the makepkg command

makepkg -si

Now it’s done. We have successfully installed yay in our Arch Linux.

To confirm the installation, you can synchronize repository and upgrade all the packages by running the following command

sudo yay -Syu

It was easy to install Yay right ? However, if you have any questions, feel free to let me know in the comments section.