following is terminal display when I am trying to install synology-drive… [jack@endeavour ~]$ yay -S synology-drive AUR Explicit (1): synology-drive-4.0.3_17892-1 Sync Make Dependency (1): qt5-tools-5.15.19+kde+r3-1 :: (1/1) Downloaded PKGBUILD: synology-drive 1 synology-drive …

If you press enter it uses the default. That’s normally the way to proceed. If you want to clean build the package you put either A for all or select one of the other options. Pressing enter bypasses all of these options and it will just proceed with the install or update of the package.

Pressing enter bypasses all of these options and it will just proceed with the install or update of the package. Just take note of what is installing etc, can be handy if you need to free up some space

Thanks, that was easy. May I ask, what is a clean build? I’m a 79 year old self taught tinkerer with OS’s other than MSFT.

Maybe ask google etc (not trying to be smart just struggling in the wording )

When you build software, it first builds from scratch. Thereafter it only builds what has changed to save time. A clean build will once again build from scratch.

Packages that are build by yay are stored in .cache/yay for later reference (e.g. updates) a clean build will delete that package from the cache and gets build like it was a new install.

Please take the time to read PKGBUILDS and never just accept them blindly here are some threads on a recent malware attack on the AUR [image] Malicious AUR packages Newbie Greetings, I’m on the AUR mailing list and there has been huge influx of packages that …

Confused by options when using YAY to install

General system Pacman & AUR helpers

thefrog June 30, 2026, 2:48pm 9

Please take the time to read PKGBUILDS and never just accept them blindly

here are some threads on a recent malware attack on the AUR

Take time to read about pacman and (AUR wrapper of choice) in this case yay.