How do I use `yay` from bash?

I had to use bash in order to install some application, but when I used yay, I got this error:
bash: yay: command not found

System Info:

System:
Kernel: 6.8.9-AMD-znver3 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-amd-znver3
root=UUID=a3ed4574-408f-4802-8fc7-dded1b46b1ac rw rootflags=subvol=@
resume=UUID=21ea485a-d6f1-4646-b304-bca6967a48e0 loglevel=3
mitigations=off ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.1.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ROG Strix G713QM_G713QM v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: G713QM v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: G713QM.331
date: 02/24/2023
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 50.9 Wh (60.0%) condition: 84.9/90.0 Wh (94.3%)
volts: 15.6 min: 15.9 model: AS3GWAF3KC GA50358 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: not charging
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 2S
serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Zen 3 gen: 4 level: v3 note: check built: 2021-22
process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x19 (25) model-id: 0x50 (80) stepping: 0
microcode: 0xA50000B
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB
L3: 16 MiB desc: 1x16 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 714 high: 2395 min/max: 400/4463 scaling:
driver: amd-pstate-epp governor: powersave cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400
4: 400 5: 1916 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 1916 10: 400 11: 2395 12: 400
13: 400 14: 400 15: 400 16: 400 bogomips: 102267
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 code: Vega
process: GF 14nm built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: HDMI-A-1 off: eDP-1
empty: none bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1638 class-ID: 0300 temp: 46.0 C
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting dri: radeonsi
gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 res: 1920x1200 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi
wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.0.6-arch1.2
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi
renoir LLVM 17.0.6 DRM 3.57 6.8.9-AMD-znver3) device-ID: 1002:1638
memory: 500 MiB unified: no display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 14 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: AMD
Radeon Graphics (RADV RENOIR) driver: mesa radv v: 24.0.6-arch1.2
device-ID: 1002:1638 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 1 type: cpu
name: llvmpipe (LLVM 17.0.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe
v: 24.0.6-arch1.2 (LLVM 17.0.6) device-ID: 10005:0000
surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 06:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: N/A alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_pci_acp5x, snd_pci_acp6x,
snd_acp_pci pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4
speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 06:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 06:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.8.9-AMD-znver3 status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, smbd, systemd-timesyncd
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-4:3 chip-ID: 8087:0029
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11
status: discoverable: no pairing: no
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.77 TiB used: 1.22 TiB (44.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:3 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 3B4QFXO7 temp: 42.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Seagate
model: XPG GAMMIX S70 BLADE size: 1.86 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 3.2.F.83 temp: 48.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 500 GiB size: 500 GiB (100.00%) used: 159.89 GiB (32.0%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:5
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 588 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:4
ID-3: /home raw-size: 500 GiB size: 500 GiB (100.00%)
used: 159.89 GiB (32.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:5
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 500 GiB size: 500 GiB (100.00%)
used: 159.89 GiB (32.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:5
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 500 GiB size: 500 GiB (100.00%)
used: 159.89 GiB (32.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:5
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 33.85 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:7
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 30.79 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 16 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 49.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.79 GiB used: 4.2 GiB (13.6%)
Processes: 375 Power: uptime: 16m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume
image: 12.28 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil, power-profiles-daemon,
upowerd Init: systemd v: 255 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: 2293 pm: pacman pkgs: 2280 libs: 593 tools: octopi,paru
pm: flatpak pkgs: 13 Compilers: clang: 17.0.6 gcc: 14.1.1 Shell: garuda-inxi
default: fish v: 3.7.1 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.34
Garuda (2.6.26-1):
System install date:     2024-03-16
Last full system update: 2024-05-11 ↻
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-dkms
Windows dual boot:       YES
Failed units:

Use paru , or install yay.

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you have to install yay for each shell? Because it’s already installed for fish

Thats an alias for Paru. Maybe we should align the configs to behave the same way for bash and fish.

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