archlinux

Helper script to remove packages. (gitlab.com)

I created this small script and thought it might be useful to someone else. Any feedback is welcome!

What happened to glibc-widevine ? (aur.archlinux.org)

I watch the F1 on NowTV. In windows this works fine in Firefox but not in Linux. My research turned up various posts linking to the “widevine” package that depends on “glibc-widevine” but that seems to have disappeared. What happened to it? did it work? where can I get it? is there an alternative?

Research paper tests how many Arch Linux packages are reproducible (outpost.fosspost.org)

Arch Linux 2024 Leader Election Results (archlinux.org)

The xz package has been backdoored, you need to update your system now (archlinux.org)

Archlinux base packages are now reproducible (fosstodon.org)

in last week’s email to the reproducible-builds email list1 about reproducible Arch Linux I mentioned there’s only one unreproducible package left in docker.io/library/archlinux....

TIL: There's an ASCII Art wikipage (wiki.archlinux.org)

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Plasma 6 just landed in Arch (archlinux.org)

[PSA] Arch Linux News: mkinitcpio hook migration and early microcode (archlinux.org)

With the release of mkinitcpio v38, several hooks previously provided by Arch packages have been moved to the mkinitcpio upstream project. The hooks are: systemd, udev, encrypt, sd-encrypt, lvm2 and mdadm_udev....

paketkoll - Check installed distro files for changes (much faster than paccheck) (github.com)

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/10657765...

GPT told me to break my system (sopuli.xyz)

In my case, there are 95 packages that depend on zlib, so removing it is absolutely the last thing you want to do. Fortunately though, GPT also suggested refreshing the gpg keys, which did solve the update problem I was having....

IOMMU help with dual gpu's and /usr/local/bin/vfio-pci-override.sh permissoins (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Can someone tell him that I think that I know the problem? (bbs.archlinux.org)

I have a 5,5 myself, but not installed arch yet (I will because of Nvidia 🤪btw) and I have the same problem. The solution is to boot with the stick unplugged and holding alt until you get into the boot choosing thingy. While on that screen, plug in the usb you want to boot from. It should magically appear. I have no clue why...

[Itch] Cursed Silence: Christmas (snowhorse-entertainment.itch.io)

Paru v2.0.0 (github.com)

Bugtracker Migration to GitLab Completed (lists.archlinux.org)

Things did go smooth and we migrated all issues from flyspray to GitLab! 🥳...

Plasma 6 alpha is in KDE-Unstable (archlinux.org)

Incoming changes in JDK / JRE 21 packages may require manual intervention (archlinux.org)

We are introducing a change in JDK/JRE packages of our distro. This is triggered from the way a JRE is build in modern versions of Java (>9). We are introducing this change in Java 21....

The calendar in the popup panel looks buggy (beehaw.org)

Since updating to GNOME 45 the calendar and world clocks and weather panel is weird. Does anybody else experience this?

axu - a cli tool to check your Arch Linux explicitly installed packages updates (github.com)

In Arch Linux, to check what updates are available, you can use the checkupdates command, but this command does not apply to the AUR package. To check what AUR package updates are available, use the yay -Qua command. Both commands will display a list of packages that have the latest version, but both commands also display...