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.git

# Change into the newly cloned repository
cd yay

# Build the package and install it
makepkg -si