Just tried looking up an aur package via the Site and both Paru and the Site gave me an 500 Internal Server Error :(

Anyone know by Chance when AUR will be back up again? >.>
or are there AUR Archives by Chance i can get stuff from for now while its down? O.o

Thanks for the Help ^^

I've noticed that there are notifications now if a programme is taking too much ram and the kernel kills it.

Were they there before or it's an update from the DE or notification manager.

I having a hard time updating my arch-based computer because the downloads are so painfully slow. It takes hours and hours. Eventually some kind of error happens and Ive already left my computer to do something else so the task times out. Or download stalls to nothing and the process kills itself.

I have already adjusted the settings in yay to be more tolerant of slow connection, but can hardly ever manage to complete the upgrade. And the longer you wait, the more updates there are.

Does anyone else have this issue? I don't have a great connection but this is ridiculous. I do have a VPN running on router. This could be affecting it as github in particular seems to make downloads a slow trickle on certain VPN endpoints but lately I can't find any that satisfy it.

I start at least 1 upgrade task every day, sometimes multiple attempts but I have only had 1 successful full system upgrade in the past 2 or 3 weeks.

Edit: Solution was just switching to Proton 9.

This is a weird one involving many moving parts, so I'm looking for some pointers on where I can even start trouble-shooting:

• When I open My Summer Car (on Steam) in fullscreen mode, the keyboard doesn't work in game.
• When I start it in windowed mode, it works normally.
• When I then select full screen in the window menu, it works partially (some buttons in game don't react).
• Other games I tested have no issue.
• It works fine on Debian, but the issue is present on more bleeding edge distros (tested Arch, Endeavor and Bazzite)
• Flatpak or native Steam makes no difference
• Only tested KDE Plasma with Wayland

My best guess is that the issue is related to Wayland somehow, and that the game doesn't mesh with the newer Plasma version, but I'd love to know if there's a way to troubleshoot or work around this.
Thanks in advance!

Whatsapp web doesnt have critical feature like calls, is there any way to get whatsapp desktop on arch?

I'm not very bright so I'm feeling pumped :P grub wouldn't play nice with dual boot of other distros, realised I couldnt find a text editor to make the DE work, but we got there In the end and it turns out it's true what they say, you learn a lot.

“PacHub provides a GTK4/libadwaita GUI for pacman and AUR, so you can avoid the terminal. PacHub can install/uninstall packages, perform upgrades, and provide

Keeping up with security updates for your web browser is of increasing practical relevance. Under normal conditions this means important updates roughly every couple of weeks.

Mainline firefox or chromium packages are typically easy mode: For most people it's a matter of staying on top of regular pacman updates. torbrowser-launcher updates from inside the browser and is also usually painless to manage.

Running custom builds or forks from AUR requires more attention. Is the AUR package up to date? If it's a fork: Are security updates from Mozilla/Google downstreamed in a timely manner? Have you built it? Can you still build it? How long since you pulled and rebuilt that ungoogled-chromium binary and how many CVEs has it racked up by now?

Anyone running firefox-esr or any derivative like icecat, waterfox^1^, mullvad-browser or konform-browser from AUR should probably be paying attention to this right now:

Arch Linux repositories updated llvm and clang to v22 on 2026-03-07. This caused a regression for Firefox ESR packaging resulting in compilation failure when building.

Firefox ESR 14.9.0 was released on 2026-03-24.

This means that since then, users of the AUR packages for these browsers have not been able to build a new version with security fixes on up to date Arch Linux system. Some users may be prepared to handle this by maintaining separate build infra with internal registry where keeping system packages frozen on older version is acceptable but for everyone else, this is a conundrum.

Anyone browsing the web on firefox-esr or a derivative should make sure you get fixes for the issues addressed in 140.9.0 asap.

konform-browser AUR package has been patched with clang 22 toolchain fixes from mozilla and should now build succesfully. The other forks including firefox-esr will still need manual patching or downgrading clang toolchain packages to v21 to compile. The konform-browser patches for clang 22 are in the AUR repo and should be portable to the other browsers too. If others can share their results in testing (both X11 and Wayland) or reviewing the fix, this might help in sorting out the firefox-esr situation sooner than later, too.

^1^: Looking at git log it claims to build as of the wasi-compiler-rt21 makedepends but I have still not been able to make it compile when attempting. Please LMK if I'm holding it wrong and there is a way!

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I have a basic firewall, but did not use App Armor, SELinux, or kernel blacklists. I definitely shut down port 22 just for now. It's just a laptop daily driver. Should I do more?

Also, I'm now addicted to Arch. I'm using Hyprland with it. This means I've got two bleeding edge wares and that gets rough sometimes when things break. I want Arch on my desktop gaming rig though. I tired other distros but I just love Arch. Has anyone tried using Ansible to manage multiple installations? I really can't maintain two so I was wondering if Ansible would make it easier, especially for updating.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56239562

Hello, I have been trying to get my drivers to play more nice with my hardware. When I originally installed Arch, it automatically installed the nouveau driver which mostly worked. However I was having issues with some windows rendering with big white boxes and a couple random crashes of the OS.

After looking into fixes I was recommended to swap to nvidia drivers, and I followed a guide to install the AUR nvidia-470xx-utils. But this completely broke my drivers. Luckily I was able to use TTY to revert these changes and got the nouveau drivers reinstalled.

With that background out of the way, I'm now dealing with some new issues. After logging in it now takes much longer to load the desktop and my whole system will randomly reboot. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I am happy to post any more info or clarify points, I'm still very new to a lot of this.

Here is my gpu readout when I run lspci -v:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device 00fc Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16 Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] I/O ports at 2000 [size=128] Expansion ROM at c1000000 [disabled] [size=512K] Capabilities: Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

Why is nftables a dependency for docker? I thought docker used iptables for networking? Also I didn't think you were supposed to have nftables and iptables installed at the same time so should I now replace iptables with iptables-nftables?

Hey everyone,

So I did my usual weekly system update with paru -Syu this morning. The update went through normally. nothing major, no core packages, Nvidia, or Plasma updates from what I could tell when I glanced at the packages. I also checked the Arch news beforehand to see if anything required manual intervention and there was nothing.

I went ahead and rebooted and tried logging into a Wayland session from SDDM, and it froze on the desktop immediately. Couldn't even get into a TTY from there.

This issue is somewhat familiar and has happened to me before. Usually, it’s fixable by rebooting or unplugging and plugging back in an external monitor. So I did a forced reboot (holding power) and tried again same freeze. Tried once more, still the same.

Then I booted into X11, logged in, and initially it seemed fine. I resized the scaling to 125% (it was at 100%), logged out and tried logging back into x11 and it froze again.

I had no idea what broke. I ended up going into TTY from GRUB and restoring a Timeshift snapshot from a day ago. After that, I could log in normally again.

Has anyone else run into this issue?

PS: I wanted to check the journal and debug it, but I had to catch a bus for vacation, so my laptop is at home. Will try to investigate more later.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/45148310

Supac is a declarative package manager written in Rust fully scriptable in nushell. It's meant to make it easy to use the native package managers in existing distros without going through the associated headaches of using Nix, while maintaining the ergonomics of structured data in nushell.

Currently supported backends are:

• Archlinux and derivatives
• flatpak
• cargo/cargo-binstall
• uvx (packages only for now)
• rustup toolchains

I daily drive it, and it works well. Feel free to give it a try!

I am always tinkering with my setup. Isn't that that normal for many linux users, especially Arch users?

I have for many years used GRUB, and have touched on using systemd-boot. I ditched systemd-boot rather quickly because I wanted to be able to list snapshots within GRUB and was happy with that until one day I couldn't for the life of me get snapshots to restore upon loading one.

So I started looking around; and found Limine, limine-snapper-sync, and Liminie-mkinitcpio-hook

After finding those, I pulled out a spare machine to test doing a clean install with Limine and proceeded to install snapper, and the above packages for syncing, along with snap-pac. I found it quite easy to use. I even tested restoring a snapshot. It was flawless for my use case.

So I then converted my laptop from GRUB to limine, and then my gaming rig.

I am quite happy with it.

What bootloader do you use, and why?

I'm using hyprland, and I have a wallpaper where I want the visualizer to go behind objects. I have an overlay, but I don't know what the best way to get the overlay in front of the buildings is. I have tried using hyprpaper and mpvpaper, but neither seemed to support transparency.

I’ve been running Arch (vanilla) on a dell laptop for more than a year now, and really happy with it. I also just installed Omarchy on an ancient machine both to try to give it a bit more life and try out a tiling window manager.

I’m now planning to move my main desktop machine over from windows 10, but it has a 1070ti graphics card—which I’m quite happy with as I don’t game at all, and only occasionally run small local LLM models for messing around. I don’t need a newer card, but of course, Nvidia…

So, would I be better off replacing it now with AMD or something else, or just using the older drivers? Will the 580xx- driver still give me a few years before I need to worry.?

I will miss RTX Voice, but happy to give noisettorch a go.

Just installed updates from Pacman, not even touching the AUR. Now when I reboot machine, this happens. It just reboots itself and the cycle repeats itself. Any solutions?

Play chess in your terminal

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/chess-tui/

I don't know how I ganked it. Was trying to screw with config stuff to set up MPD because I've never done it before. Now I turn on the machine and it is missing the ly greeter. Instead, I type in my username and password and it gives me a terminal. I have no idea what to do now. Got me considering the nuclear option (wave a white flag and install over this drive with Debian).

Help?

Edit: the ly display manager bit the dust for some reason. Just installed sddm and now I'm back in business!

Edit 2: Apparently ly just needed a new symlink because they changed something and the old one no longer works. Back to using my favorite display manager and using my computer as I usually do. Thanks for the help, folks! Y'all are great <3

Is there a FOSS only repo like Debain's main? I couldn't see anywhere in The official repos if core allows non-free repos.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to install vivado (2025.2) on my recent install of arch Linux. I've seen this error occur in a lot of Linux distros, and usually it was resolved by installing libncurses and other packages ( which i did successfully do on fedora and other distros). That said, with arch it seems these packages aren't available since it cannot be found by the package manager.

I'm wondering if anyone knows what dependencies are needed, if there are alternatives, to get vivado to work on arch.