{"id":49,"date":"2026-08-08T08:17:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:22:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:22:58","slug":"install-yay-%f0%9f%93%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Install yay \ud83d\udce6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">install required packages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&gt; sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The &#8211;needed flag prevents reinstallation of existing packages <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">download the yay repo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&gt; git clone https:\/\/aur.archlinux.org\/yay.git<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">build packages <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&gt; cd yay \n&gt; makepkg -si<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>how to install yay on arch linux<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-tech","category-tech","tag-arch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake-springer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}