Installing packages from the testing branch

[Centaro]

Hello, everyone

is there a guide on how to install packages from the testing branch? I suspect that proton-vpn-gtk-app might not be working because of a deprecated version. I can see the AUR has the same version as the Manjaro testing branch, but I do not get pacman to offer me a choice.

I have uncommented verbosepkglists in /etc/pacman.conf and restarted my terminal, but to no avail.

Thanks in advance and thank you for being a great community throughout my 11 years as a Linux user thus far.

[scotty65]

Switching to Testing branch is not difficult:

sudo pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch testing

sudo pacman-mirrors --continent && sudo pacman -Syu

Switching Branches

If you want to return to Stable branch later, you can do so by running the following commands:

sudo pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch stable

sudo pacman-mirrors --continent && sudo pacman -Syuu

Note the extra “u” in the second command, which will allow package downgrades when moving from Testing to Stable branch

[Centaro]

Amazing. Thank you, @scotty65 <3

[Ben]

@Centaro

a guide on how to install packages from the testing branch?

Snapshot and Backup before switching branches.