Antergos is discontinued :’( I’m using the successor EndeavourOS! and yay !

Using Yay

The Yay package manager allows you to update and upgrade your packages efficiently using your terminal. To do this, just use the -Syu flag with the yay command.

sudo yay -Syu

Install Packages With Yay

The syntax of the Yay install command is pretty similar to that of Pacman. To install a package using the Yay package manager, just use the -S flag with the default command.

yay -S packagename

Remove Packages With Yay

To remove packages using Yay, add the -R flag to the default yay command. You can also use the -Rns flag to remove all unnecessary dependencies from your system.

yay -R packagename
# or
yay -Rns packagename

If you want to remove the packages that your system doesn’t need, use the -Yc flag with the command.

yay -Yc

I’m a newbie in Arch Linux. Based on a rolling-release model, Arch strives to stay bleeding edge, and typically offers the latest stable versions of most software.

As GUI configuration utilities are not officially provided, and most system configuration is performed from the shell and a text editor. I’ve installed with Antergos Install easily Antergos with a easy-to-use graphical installer. After a successful installation. You are ready to go. No more steps needed. Just reboot your computer… and enjoy.

I’m using the Gnome desktop environment, that has been designed from the ground up to help you have the best possible computing experience.

Installing specific packages

To install a single package or list of packages (including dependencies), issue the following command:

pacman -S package_name1

Upgrading packages

pacman can update all packages on the system with just one command. This could take quite a while depending on how up-to-date the system is. This command can synchronize the repository databases and update the system’s packages (excluding ‘local’ packages that are not in the configured repositories):

sudo pacman -Syu

Clean unsused packages

-c, --clean

Remove packages that are no longer installed from the cache as well as currently unused sync databases to free up disk space. When pacman downloads packages, it saves them in a cache directory. In addition, databases are saved for every sync DB you download from, and are not deleted even if they are removed from the configuration file pacman.conf(5). Use one –clean switch to only remove packages that are no longer installed; use two to remove all files from the cache. In both cases, you will have a yes or no option to remove packages and/or unused downloaded databases.

sudo pacman --clean

Install package

sudo pacman -S package-name`

Using yaourt

You can install packages with

yaourt packagename

or

yaourt -Sa packagename

You can update your system including AUR packages with:

yaourt -Syua

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