Software installation via yay and autoanswer for repository number

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#1

Hi,

To save some time, I’m piecing together a bash script to install all of the software I use, so that when I want to reinstall or install elsewhere I can have it churn through what I want in the script automatically.

Does anyone know if there is a way to auto insert an answer for the repository prompt?

e.g

yay -S --answerdiff None --answerclean None --removemake obs-streamfx

There are two repositories 1) obs-streamfx 2) obs-streamfx-git, so I would want it to just choose either the default or be able to autoanswer 1, either would be good.

I’ve been looking through the man pages for yay and I can’t see any option for this.

With pacman I can use yes | sudo pacman -Syu blender to auto answer yes, so I thought I’d give that a go, but having a number before the pipe just throws an error.

Thanks

#2

For a “unattended update” script of mine, I use …

--nodiffmenu --combinedupgrade --sudoloop --noconfirm

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#3

Thanks, but I was wanting to know how to select which repository within the script so I wouldn’t have to keep entering a number for each piece of software.

#4

--noconfirm

:wink:

You can also restrict the repository to AUR with --aur, if you have additional repos like chaoticaur for instance.

I just tried
yay -S obs-streamfx --aur --noconfirm
and it went through without any problems.

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#5

Oh, that was absolute magic, thank you that works great!!! :slight_smile:

#6

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