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yay

Yet Another Yogurt: A utility for Arch Linux to build and install packages from the Arch User Repository. A frontend to pacman.

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

yay

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

yay {{package_name|search_term}}

• Install a new package from the repos and AUR:

yay -S {{package_name}}

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

yay -Ss {{keyword}}

• Get information about a package:

yay -Si {{package_name}}

• Clean the package cache:

yay -Sc

• Completely wipe the package cache:

yay -Scc

• Uninstall a package and delete config files:

yay -Rns {{package_name}}

• Install a local package (useful for rolling back updates):

yay -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/{{package_name}}

• Find out which package owns a file:

yay -Qo {{file_name}}

• List files contained in a package:

yay -Ql {{package_name}

• List all explicitly installed packages (includes AUR packages):

yay -Qe

• Save all explicitily installed packages to a file:

yay -Qe | awk '{print $1}' > packages.txt

• Remove unneeded dependencies:

yay -Yc

• Show statistics for installed packages and system health:

yay -Ps