Skip to main content ↑ ↓
Topic solved
This topic has been marked as solved and requires no further attention.
Topic: Missing packages in pacman (Read 505 times) previous topic - next topic
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Missing packages in pacman

I've recenlty switched from Manjaro to Artix and both use pacman, However I noticed that some packages that were available with pacman in Manjaro, are not available with pacman in Artix for some reason.

For example I was looking to install zathura but I didn't find it in the AUR either, I only found it in yay.
So I tried installing zathura and zathura-mupdf with yay, expecting the installation to work out the same as with pacman, but when I tested a pdf and a epub file, it didn't work, and this had never happened when I had installed the packages with pacman.

So I'm wondering If there's a way that I can include the missing packages into pacman to save me the trouble of having to work out how to properly use yay (assuming that the problem was user error).
 

Re: Missing packages in pacman

Reply #1 –
Hi there,
zathura is in the community Arch repo., and doesn't exist in its plain form in AUR (git versions etc are there).  So its a case of adding the Arch repo's (see the wiki for further details: https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories).  Its simple to add but add the Universe (Artix) first.  Pacman references pacman.conf and yay references both AUR and the enabled repo's in pacman.conf, and thats why it doesn't show but did in Manj, which has all repo's from Arch and is pretty much a mirror in my mind (having all Arch repo's enabled in Artix will proper screw a system due to all that sysd jazz thats carefully excluded in Artix)

Alertnatively, you could just download from mirror and install locally with the -U switch for pacman.   Here's the arch link if needed: https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=zathura&maintainer=&flagged=

Re: Missing packages in pacman

Reply #2 –
Quote from: gavincc – on
Hi there,
zathura is in the community Arch repo., and doesn't exist in its plain form in AUR (git versions etc are there).  So its a case of adding the Arch repo's (see the wiki for further details: https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories).  Its simple to add but add the Universe (Artix) first.  Pacman references pacman.conf and yay references both AUR and the enabled repo's in pacman.conf, and thats why it doesn't show but did in Manj, which has all repo's from Arch and is pretty much a mirror in my mind (having all Arch repo's enabled in Artix will proper screw a system due to all that sysd jazz thats carefully excluded in Artix)

Alertnatively, you could just download from mirror and install locally with the -U switch for pacman.   Here's the arch link if needed: https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=zathura&maintainer=&flagged=
I've decided to add the Arch repos to pacman because locally installing the mirror was not working for some reason. I have zathura and its plugins installed now and everything is working fine.
Thank you.