yay
Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go (by Jguer)
paru
Feature packed AUR helper (by Morganamilo)
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| yay | paru | |
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| 126 | 74 | |
| 10,306 | 5,459 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.7 | 8.9 | |
| 2 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| Go | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
yay
Posts with mentions or reviews of yay.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.
- Arch yay 0 current speed
- 2 things I didn't know about yay until today.
- How to find the download command for a program.
- Newish Linux user : package management woes
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Top Productivity CLI Tools I Use on Linux
yay is a robust and user-friendly AUR (Arch User Repository) helper for Arch Linux and Arch-based distributions written in Go.
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Installed Arch Linux
paru has better defaults and --chroot, whereas it's still an open issue for yay.
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Discovery gives "The PackageKit daemon has crashed" error suddenly (Arch)
If you use AUR packages, you might want to use an AUR helper that wraps pacman, like paru or yay.
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I'm seriously so sick of the pop ups on every website I visit.
This one: https://github.com/Jguer/yay Didn't know there were others..
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List of available software to install?
you can use an aur helper like yay
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ERROR after python3.11 update
Yay is hopelessly broken, it pretends to rebuild stuff when, in fact, it doesn't. See: https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/2153
paru
Posts with mentions or reviews of paru.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
- Release Paru v2.0.0 (AUR helper)
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what do you wish you knew while starting to use arch?
I would also get a AUR helper, I'd recommend paru (don't forget to configure /etc/paru.conf). Just make sure you're checking the validity of AUR packages.
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Paru not upgrading *-git packages
as the uncommented lines. This has been the default since at least April 2022.
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Is anyone editing PKGBUILD files locally with paru (local changes without "customizepkg")?
I've just discovered that paru supports adding your own changes to PKGBUILD files if they are committed to the cached git repos and merging them with any upstream upgrades:
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Discovery gives "The PackageKit daemon has crashed" error suddenly (Arch)
If you use AUR packages, you might want to use an AUR helper that wraps pacman, like paru or yay.
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Concerns Over Arch Stability
paru is an AUR Helper, which also will perform pacman actions (install, upgrade, removal, etc)
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It’s JavaScript all the way down
maybe check out paru - it throws up the PKGBUILD whenever you’re installing a package (or upgrading one when it’s changed)
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Is there any software helps build AUR packages and update them?
paru: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru
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Need help installing webcam drivers ipu6
Thanks. Installing intel-ipu6-dkms-git from AUR using paru is giving error, says
- Is there a way to apply a patch to an AUR package on the fly, without editing the PKGBUILD?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing yay and paru you can also consider the following projects:
trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager
aur - A secure, multilingual package manager for Arch Linux and the AUR.
ansible-aur - Ansible module to manage packages from the AUR
octopi - A powerful Pacman (Package Manager) front end using Qt libs
rua - Build tool for Arch Linux providing control, review and jailed build options
spotify-adblock-linux - Spotify adblocker for Linux
ArchWSL - ArchLinux based WSL Distribution. Supports multiple install.
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
topgrade - Upgrade everything
xbps - The X Binary Package System (XBPS)
baph - baph - Basic AUR Package Helper