# Install yay

Yay is a direct replacement for Pacman, all the commands do the same thing, except with the added benefit of searching the AUR for package names as well as the normal repositories.
### Install Commands:
    sudo pacman -Syy
    sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
    sudo pacman -S git
    git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
    cd yay
    makepkg -si

* ***note:** makepkg flags: `-s` = install missing dependancies, `-i` = install package after building.*

### Results:
use `yay` instead of `pacman` for all package management tasks.

In the future, yay will update itself during full system upgrades (`yay -Syyu` or just `yay`). See the next page in this guide for fixes to some issues that may interrupt these upgrades.