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Arch yay Install

yay is an AUR helper for installing packages not available in the official Arch repositories. Required for packages like Google Chrome.

yay builds AUR packages locally from PKGBUILDs. Use pacman for official Arch packages and yay only when the package is not available there. AUR packages are community maintained.

Install

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

Usage

yay -S <package-name>   # install from AUR
yay -S google-chrome    # example