As I mentioned before, EndeavoursOS comes with yay, which is a pacman wrapper and an AUR helper, 2 in one. basically it has all the functionality pacman has plus some extras and some nice things too:
Here is how I use yay:
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SO amazing! Thank you!
I did yay - that “installed” it and set it up, right?
Then yay zoxide - that’s a query to search for package zoxide. I chose the one I wanted from the available repos.
Followed by yay -S zoxide and now it’s installed 
configured and working properly, too cool!
If I run yay again with no params, it’s supposed to update, right?
It shows me a package I installed called tuptime, but I can’t get it to update.
tuptime installed version is 4.1.0.
tuptime available version is 4.1.0-1.
Is that because I’m waiting for package maintainers to update the repo? Not a big deal, it works fine. but it’s gonna keep showing
-> Flagged Out Of Date AUR Packages: tuptime
there is nothing to do
I Google things - a LOT. So I will rarely ask for help because I can generally find my own solutions.
However I came across this today, https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/jjn1c1/paru_v100_and_stepping_away_from_yay/
That’s coming from the developer of yay, stating that it is not depreciated, but just will no longer be developed, as he has moved on to paru.
What’s your opinion?!
I think thats not true, yay has been taken up by someone else. I would check on git if its hosted there.
Second, I rarely believe or find anything useful from reddit, it’s the last place to look for solutions to my humble opinion. Rather ask here or check stackoverflow or similar.
Some stuff here:
A couple of post from Paru’s dev as well.
I recall that discussion…
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that’s why I’m asking.
I meant check yay, since the thread/article mistakenly claims that the dev from yay went to paru and yay is dead. Which is not true…
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Wrong, you can do yay because it is already installed with EndeavourOS (otherwise it would say command not found: yay)
yay is equivalent to yay -Syu: it updates the system. It’s a good practice to do a system update before installing something new.
That’s correct, but it’s more than just a search. It’s a search and install in one.
That’s wrong. yay zoxide is enough. No need to do yay -S zoxide afterwards.
As I said yay zoxide is a search and install in one. It shows all results and expects you to input the number of the package you want to install from the given list. You can even install multiple packages by specifying “1-5, 7,29” for example.
Check out the video i posted again:
First I do a system update by typing yay.
Then I search for package containing “teams” in the name with the intent to install it: yay teams. I then scroll the list to find the package I am interested in and input the package number followed by Enter. This effectively installs that package.
Afterwards I type yay -s teams to show that it does exactly the same thing as yay teams, You can see that I am asked to enter a package, but since I’ve already installed teams with the previous command, I press Ctrl+C to exit the prompt. You can see in the list that teams is already installed because now it has (installed) after the package name.
Then I type yay -Syu to show that it does exactly the same thing like yay
I’d say not to worry. EndeavourOS comes with yay preinstalled. That’s endorsement enough for me 
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Cool. So always yay before yay package, gotcha.
So no other commands needed, that’s too cool, I really like this.
And to remove it’s yay -R package and yay -Rns package to remove + dependencies.
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