wiki/wiki/linux/arch-linux/package-manager.md

Package Manager

Package managers are important programs to get software onto your system. In Arch Linux there are 2 main package managers. One is pacman, the default package manager. But there are also a bunch other managers for the Arch User Repositories (AUR).

In this article I'll use yay as my go to AUR manager. yay is also a wrapper for pacman so you can just use yay instead of pacman to install programs.

Bugfixes

Error while importing keys

Both yay and pacman use gpg keys to confirm the package manager gets the right package. It is possible that it runs into errors when importing new keys. If this happens you should try to restart your gpg key server with gpgconf --kill all.