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Yay has recently been rewritten in Rust by one of its maintainers. The project is called paru. Not sure if that helps though, since the Rust toolchain will need some space too.

Since you came over to Arch's ecosystem, if you want to grab something from the AUR (like any other Arch user does eventually), i'll recommend you to install paru as your AUR helper, it has a nice feature where it won't let you to install anything if you don't read the PKGBUILD first. Also, try to Learn some bash and about the PKGBUILD system.

~9/10 times, the thing you're looking for will be in the official repositories. In the case of Steam, you do need to enable the multilib repo in your pacman config. Check https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/steam#Installation for more info.

And if it's not in the official repo's, chances are it will be available in the AUR. You can use an AUR helper like paru to make installing these packages easier.

I have some tips since I was struggling myself until success..

1. Always keep Arch installation on your usb drive. You will regret if you don't have one when you need it.
2. Use rEFInd as boot manager. Why? Because it works without a configuration. Install it, delete the configuration (/boot/refind_linux.conf) and you are done, no more headache.
3. There are dark themes for rEFInd. Might be useful if your laptop starts at full brightness and rEFInd hurts your eyes. I am using this.
4. Take notes of your steps. You might need them later. I needed them brcause I broke Arch so many times😂.
5. Use AUR so the chance of you breaking Arch is lower. I use paru personally.

You can install an AUR helper, such as paru, to basically do this process for you. More info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers

Note that AUR helpers are officially unsupported, so you should know the manual way in case anything goes wrong (and of course you'll need to use the manual method to install an AUR helper in the first place!)

You can flip it:

Flip search order: To get search results to start at the bottom and go upwards, enable BottomUp in paru.conf.

(Just copied from the GitHub page

you could use aurutils or paru with the chroot/localrepo features enabled to make a local pacman repository with all of your aur packages; that would allow for -F to be used on any of them since they would no longer be installed as foreign packages

Dropbox has their own PGP key because they upload it directly to the AUR that key is for

if you use a tool like yay or paru it can handle all of this for you, I recommend paru because it's more modern and faster https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru

just run sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git cd paru makepkg -si

I've been using <code>paru</code>. It seems to be pretty good, although I hadn't used yay a whole lot before I switched.

I think it's the successor to yay, but I could be wrong

Even though I don't think it's a good idea not to look at the files (there have been manipulated recipes in the AUR in the past), the parameter --skipreview has recently been added that allows you to prevent the files from being displayed.

Both of them are updated in the AUR. So I guess it's your AUR helper that have some problems.

1. clean your cache
2. Try paru instead
3. or manually install them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.got

That command is successful

Then I change into paru directory and initiate "makepkg -si"

Result :

Since rust is a dependency it installs rust. Then the error occurs while downloading "paru-1.1.3.tar.gz"

Error :

> 0curl: (7) couldn't connect to server Error: Failure while downloading https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru/archive /v1.1.3.tar.gz Aborting ...

paru supports printing the latest Arch Linux news on upgrade with a command line flag or a config file option, which is what I use. It only adds like, half a second to a second of time to the update check, so it's super worth.