Install/Uninstall Software(AUR)
Arch User Repository (AUR) is a community-led software repository for the majority of Arch users. The original intention of AUR is to organize the sharing of PKGBUILD within the community and promote popular user-contributed software packages to enter the community software library. AUR is known as the birthplace of new packages for Arch, where users contribute their own packages.
In short, AUR is a great expansion of the Arch series distribution software library and has the richest software ecosystem in the Linux world. Domestic software such as WeChat, QQ, and WPS can all be found in AUR.
In CatOS, the AUR assistant yay or paru has been built in to help you search, install and uninstall software in the AUR.
AUR packages are user-generated content. Any use of the provided AUR software is at your own risk.
When you encounter network problems when using yay to download software, you can use tools such as Watt Toolkit to accelerate it.
Search software
You can search for software with the following command:
yay -Ss pkg_name
As shown below, use "qqmusic" as the keyword search software
Install software
You can install the software with the following command:
yay -S pkg_name
Uninstall software
To uninstall just the software:
yay -R pkg_name
This command only uninstalls the specified package and does not delete other packages that depend on this package. To uninstall all packages that depend on this package at the same time (excluding packages referenced by other packages), you can use the following command
yay -Rs pkg_name
Query software
If you want to query all packages installed on the system, you can use the following command
yay -Qs
To query whether a specific package is installed on your system:
yay -Qs pkg_name