yay

Yet Another Yogurt — an AUR helper for Arch Linux, written in Go.

yay wraps pacman for official-repository packages and adds full AUR support: PKGBUILD downloading, cross-source dependency resolution, makepkg-based building, devel/VCS package tracking, and AUR voting. A single pacman-compatible CLI for both sources.

Install

AUR (recommended)

Use the AUR helper you already have, or install manually:

bash

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay && makepkg -si

yay-bin (no Go required)

Skip the build entirely if you do not want to install Go:

bash

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git
cd yay-bin && makepkg -si

yay-git (latest git)

Track the latest development branch from git:

bash

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-git.git
cd yay-git && makepkg -si

Documentation

Manual — yay(8) — complete command and option reference
Lua API — init.lua hooks, autocmds, and configuration
init.lua template — ready-to-copy configuration template

Quick reference

bash

yay foo                     # search and install (yogurt mode)
yay -Syu                    # full upgrade: repo + AUR
yay -Syua                   # AUR-only upgrade
yay -G foo                  # download PKGBUILD
yay -Ps                     # system statistics and health check

Source

github.com/Jguer/yay