yay Command Examples

Yet Another Yogurt: build and install packages from the Arch User Repository. Also see pacman. More information: https://github.com/Jguer/yay.

• Interactively search and install packages from the repos and AUR:

yay {{package_name|search_term}}

• Synchronize and update all packages from the repos and AUR:

yay

• Synchronize and update only AUR packages:

yay -Sua

• Install a new package from the repos and AUR:

yay -S {{package}}

• Remove an installed package and both its dependencies and configuration files:

yay -Rns {{package}}

• Search the package database for a keyword from the repos and AUR:

yay -Ss {{keyword}}

• Remove orphaned packages (installed as dependencies but not required by any package):

yay -Yc

• Show statistics for installed packages and system health:

yay -Ps