Hello ARM community.
Huge update. Between Plasma and Gnome it has everything!
Some highlights:
- Most of our kernels got updated
- Gnome got a new major release with 41.1
- LXQT got it’s first major release of 1.0
- Also Pamac got a new point release of 10.3.0
- Thunderbird updated to 91.3.2
- And Firefox is updated to 94.0.2
- KDE Frameworks updated to 5.88
- And KDE Gear updated to 21.08.3
- LibreOffice-Still is now at 7.1.7
- And Electron updated to 16.0.2
- Lots of updated packages for our Mobile offerings
- The regular Python updates
- And regular updates from upstream
How to get Waydroid working
If you follow these steps, you should have Waydroid working fine.
Remember, Waydroid only works on wayland!
- Install
waydroid-image
and all it’s dependencies. - Run
pkexec setup-waydroid
. - You should now be able to launch Waydroid. The first launch takes a while.
How to use Kodi RPI on Manjaro ARM
If anyone wants to test kodi on the rpi, install these packages:
sudo pacman -S kodi-rpi kodi-rpi-dev kodi-rpi-eventclients kodi-rpi-tools-texturepacker linux-rpi4 xf86-video-fbdev
Have it set up is to boot straight in to kodi
This means the kodi.service file need to replace whatever login manager you have installed. In my case I would:
sudo systemctl disable lightdm.service
sudo systemctl enable kodi.service
They recommend removing custom configs in config.txt. We ran into an issue if a value was set with gpu_mem=.
My config.txt with a bit of overclocking:
over_voltage=5
arm_freq=2000
#gpu_mem=64 #disable this
initramfs initramfs-linux.img followkernel
kernel=kernel8.img
arm_64bit=1
disable_overscan=1
#enable sound
dtparam=audio=on
hdmi_drive=2
#enable vc4
dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d,cma-512
#max_framebuffers=2 #disable cause kodi uses more
dtoverlay=rpivid-v4l2
disable_fw_kms_setup=1
Some notes:
The default user will be kodi
kodi home directory will be /var/lib/kodi
So put test video in /var/lib/kodi/Videos so you can get to it
after setting up the video directory in kodi.
Upstream Notifications:
If you used the Manjaro ARM Installer or is using PinePhone or PineTab, you need to redo your passwords, because of an update to libxcrypt
:
https://archlinux.org/news/sorting-out-old-password-hashes/
Older notifications
Chromium will loose sync support in early March:
Arch Linux - News: Chromium losing Sync support in early March
ghostpcl>=9.53.2-2 and ghostxps>=9.53.2-2 updates require manual intervention:
Arch Linux - News: ghostpcl>=9.53.2-2 and ghostxps>=9.53.2-2 updates require manual intervention
The nss
and zn_poly
packages requires manual intervention:
Arch Linux - News: nss>=3.51.1-1 and lib32-nss>=3.51.1-1 updates require manual intervention
Arch Linux - News: zn_poly 0.9.2-2 update requires manual intervention
The packages hplip
and firewalld
requires manual intervention:
Arch Linux - News: hplip 3.20.3-2 update requires manual intervention
Arch Linux - News: firewalld>=0.8.1-2 update requires manual intervention
Package changes:
(Tue Nov 30 23:14:46 CET 2021)
- arm-stable community aarch64: 891 new and 847 removed package(s)
- arm-stable core aarch64: 60 new and 55 removed package(s)
- arm-stable extra aarch64: 1006 new and 1004 removed package(s)
- arm-stable kde-unstable aarch64: 407 new and 409 removed package(s)
To see the full package list, click here!
Testers needed on arm-testing branch
We are in need of testers for our arm-testing and arm-unstable branches.
So if you are adventurous and want newer software quicker, we would love for you to help us test out the new packages in arm-testing branch.
All you have to do to switch to this branch is:
- Run this command to switch branch:
sudo pacman-mirrors -aS testing && sudo pacman -Syyu
. This will generate a new mirrorlist for you, sync your databases with the new mirror and update your system using the arm-testing branch.
We would then love for you to give feedback in our update posts in #manjaro-arm:arm-testing-updates. That way we can better find and fix bugs, before they hit arm-stable branch. Thank you!
Donation
Please consider supporting Manjaro ARM directly via Patreon, Ko-Fi or Open Collective.
You can also donate to our upstream, which is Arch Linux ARM.
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