How to install yay in distrobox?

[RashiqAzhan]

How to install yay from the file? I would like to have the entire distrobox app defined in a file for reproducibility.

distrobox.ini

[foo-distrobox-archlinux]
image=quay.io/toolbx/arch-toolbox:latest
pull=true
replace=true
start_now=true
additional_packages="git base-devel"
init_hooks=pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git && cd yay-bin && makepkg -si;
init_hooks=ln -s /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec /usr/local/bin/docker

[tangowithfoxtrot]

Here's an approximation that I've settled on:

[arch]
# additional_packages="bat git helix jq starship"
# exported_bins="/usr/bin/bat /usr/bin/helix /usr/bin/jq /usr/bin/starship"
image=archlinux:latest
init=true
start_now=true
init_hooks=touch /init-normal /bin/enable-aur.sh;
init_hooks=echo #!/usr/bin/env bash                                 > /bin/enable-aur.sh;
init_hooks=echo sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm base-devel git >> /bin/enable-aur.sh;
init_hooks=echo pushd /tmp                                         >> /bin/enable-aur.sh;
init_hooks=echo git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git    >> /bin/enable-aur.sh;
init_hooks=echo cd yay-bin                                         >> /bin/enable-aur.sh;
init_hooks=echo makepkg -si --noconfirm                            >> /bin/enable-aur.sh;
init_hooks=echo popd                                               >> /bin/enable-aur.sh;
init_hooks=chmod +x /bin/enable-aur.sh;
pre_init_hooks="touch /pre-init"
pull=true
root=false

And then, just run enable-aur.sh when you start the container.

[marendowski]

Hi, to anyone still trying to install yay via init_hooks, here's my distrobox.ini that works:

init_hooks="export USER=<your_user>"
init_hooks="cd ~/Downloads"
init_hooks="git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git"
init_hooks="sudo chown -R $USER:$USER yay-bin"
init_hooks="sudo chmod -R 777 yay-bin"
init_hooks="sudo -u $USER sh -c "cd yay-bin && makepkg -si --noconfirm""
init_hooks="rm -r yay-bin"

Cheers.