- AUR is Arch User Repository
- the mirrors does not host any of these scripts
- AUR is a huge cookbook with recipes
- recipes to package applications not in the official repositories
- AUR is unsupported - that goes for Arch Linux and Manjaro Linux
- Do not enable Pamac AUR update checking
- it may lead to a extensive memory use
- on systems without swap it may lead to system freeze
If you cannot make it work - please do learn how to use AUR - the Arch way … please see
Warning: AUR packages are user-produced content. These
PKGBUILDs are completely unofficial and have not been thoroughly vetted. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk.
– Arch User Repository - ArchWiki
Due to the huge popularity of Pamac - even for non-manjaro systems - the Arch Linux aurweb team had a hard time dealing with the thousands of request that Pamac produced - sometimes taking aurweb to it’s knees.
To read more about that, see → - [Need-To-Know] About Manjaro and AUR
That lead the Arch Linux aurweb team to do an overhaul of the aurweb backend - providing a database which can be downloaded and searched offline.
Manjaro runs a service that provides that database. The database is downloaded from AURweb at regular intervals and provided to users via a CDN77 (Content Delivery Network) thus releasing the pressure on the aurweb backend.
This comes with minor drawbacks - the offline database may not always reflect the actual state of the aur buildscripts.
The database may be inaccessible for some or if in the middle of a sync inside the CDN network it may be less accessible - could cause timeouts - certificate errors has also been spotted.
The good old Arch way still works flawless - so my advise to you is the one you don’t want to hear - learn the Arch way - read the short version → Applying CUSTOM packages