Should I use git or yay or pacman to install packages?

[sasuke108]

How do i know which one to use?

[dalto]

Pacman installs packages from only the repos.

Yay installs packages from both the repos and the AUR.

You shouldn’t generally be using git to install packages. This one is a little vague because git can be used to download data from a remote repo so it has a lot of different uses.

I generally use yay/paru to install and update packages.

In case it wasn’t clear yay and paru are similar tools that serve the same purpose.

[Pudge]

I believe that pacman is the only OFFICIALLY supported package manager.
That means a lot to me in making my choice.

EDIT:
I use yay when installing from the AUR.
So either pacman or yay depending what I am installing from.

Pudge

[Kresimir]

On Arch Linux, whenever you install a package, whether from the repos or a “foreign” package, you should always use pacman (or some other ALPM interface).

git will not install a package, it will download files from a remote git repo. You can then use makepkg to build a “foreign” package which you can install with pacman.

When it comes to the AUR, yay does that automatically – it downloads the source files, builds a package and then installs it using ALPM.