8. Installing AUR helper
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Aside from official repositories, Arch Linux has Arch User Repositories. AUR greatly widens your software choice. To build packages from the AUR, we will need to install a helper program.
Install yay
Install the dependencies first:
sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git wget yajl go
NOTE: “doas” users should remove “sudo” and “base-devel” meta-package after install with “doas pacman -R base-devel sudo”.
Clone “yay” into your home directory:
cd
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
Build the program:
cd yay
makepkg -si
Install pamac
If you wish to have a GUI frontend to AUR, install “pamac-aur”:
yay -S pamac-aur
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