I can install althttpd-fossil on this machine with yay or pamac. On another i386 machine, with the identical release installed, neither yay nor pamac will install it.
Two arguably obvious factors are:
- The architecture is no longer supported.
althttpd-fossildoes not exist in Manjaro repositories
The AUR page indicates that the package has not been updated since 2021-06-08 13:10 (UTC) …
mbn info althttpd-fossil -q
AUR : ------
Name : althttpd-fossil
Version : r16.2c5e3f9-1
Date : Tue 08 Jun 2021 22:40:40
Url : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/althttpd-fossil
:: Branch: unstable
Nothing found ! althttpd-fossil.*
Even if it had, the fact that Arch has phased out i686 (and i386) in 2017 places you at a distinct disadvantage.
At face value, this would explain why it cannot be installed.
Perhaps the following site (a Community maintained continuation of Arch 32-bit support) may be helpful in obtaining a 32bit bit binary package.
I’m afraid that’s all that comes to mind at this time.
Regards.
= uname -m
x86_64
= yay althttpd-fossil
1 aur/althttpd-fossil r16.2c5e3f9-1 (+1 0.00)
The Althttpd Webserver
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 1
AUR Explicit (1): althttpd-fossil-r16.2c5e3f9-1
:: (0/1) Failed to download PKGBUILD: althttpd-fossil
-> error fetching althttpd-fossil: Cloning into 'althttpd-fossil'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://aur.archlinux.org/althttpd-fossil.git/': error adding trust anchors from file: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
context: exit status 128
You should check your system’s clock - certificate errors is often caused by a skewed clock.
Ensure the hardware clock is utc
sudo hwclock --utc --systohc
Ensure you have a running ntp client
sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-timesyncd
When that is place - run a full system sync
sudo pacman -Syu
Then you try cloning the repo
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/althttpd-fossil
When you have successfully cloned the repo
cd althttpd-fossil
makepkg -iscC
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This doesn’t work, presumably because https://aur.archlinux.org/althttpd-fossil/ returns 404. And yet, I can install althttpd on this machine with pamac and yay because it’s in the cache. So I simply copied the files from this machine over to the target. Problem solved.
Then you have other issues - because it clones fine at my end.
2026-06-05T09:53:00Z
11:53:32 â—‹ [fh@tiger] ~
$ pamac search althttpd-fossil
althttpd-fossil r16.2c5e3f9-1 AUR
The Althttpd Webserver
11:53:41 â—‹ [fh@tiger] ~
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/althttpd-fossil
Cloning into 'althttpd-fossil'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 4, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 4 (delta 0), reused 4 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (4/4), done.
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https://aur.archlinux.org/althttpd-fossil.git is the HTTPS git clone URL, not the web page which is https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/althttpd-fossil.
You found a way to work around the problem–we still don’t know what the problem is.
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The git clone works, but yay doesn’t.
= sudo git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/althttpd-fossil
[sudo] password for naz:
Cloning into 'althttpd-fossil'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 4, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 4 (delta 0), reused 4 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (4/4), done.
= yay althttpd-fossil
1 aur/althttpd-fossil r16.2c5e3f9-1 (+1 0.00)
The Althttpd Webserver
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 1
AUR Explicit (1): althttpd-fossil-r16.2c5e3f9-1
:: (0/1) Failed to download PKGBUILD: althttpd-fossil
-> error fetching althttpd-fossil: Cloning into 'althttpd-fossil'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://aur.archlinux.org/althttpd-fossil.git/': error adding trust anchors from file: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
context: exit status 128