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AUR Helper

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

yay

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Install base-devel packages, git and go:

pacman -S base-devel git go
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Switch to any regular useruser:

su sebin
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Make sure we're in the user's home directorydirectory:

cd
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Create a new directory and change into itit:

mkdir git && cd git
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Clone the AUR package repo for yay:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.gityay
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Change into the newly cloned repositoryrepository:

cd yay
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Build the package and install itit:

makepkg -si