AUR Helper

An AUR helper is a tool that simplifies the process of procuring extra packages from the Arch User Repository.

yay

Install base-devel packages, git and go:

pacman -S base-devel git go

Switch to any regular user:

su sebin

Make sure we're in the user's home directory:

cd

Create a new directory and change into it:

mkdir git && cd git

Clone the AUR package repo for yay:

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

Change into the newly cloned repository:

cd yay

Build the package and install it:

makepkg -si