The KDE Plasma 6.4 release candidate was published today. I tried to figure out how to get KDE release candidate software on Manjaro because there’s a bug fix for a major bug in my KDE Plasma Wayland desktop that I want to test.
I asked about it on Reddit and someone directed me to researching kde-unstable. I did that, and saw information on the Arch wiki about it, which I realize is for Arch only. So, I researched on these Manjaro forums and found a post on here from 2022 that mentioned that Manjaro has its own kde-unstable repo, and it can be added to /etc/pacman.conf. I did that by adding these lines:
[kde-unstable]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
I’m using the unstable branch, by the way. Then I tried to synchronize my repos, and got this result:
[alex@alex-pc ~]$ sudo pacman -Syy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 144.3 KiB 1519 KiB/s 00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
extra 8.3 MiB 18.4 MiB/s 00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
multilib 147.9 KiB 1573 KiB/s 00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
chaotic-aur 629.4 KiB 1478 KiB/s 00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
kde-unstable.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from mirrors.manjaro.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from mirrors2.manjaro.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from mirror.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from nnenix.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from ziply.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from cofractal-ewr.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from irltoolkit.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from mnvoip.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from forksystems.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from codingflyboy.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from coresite.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from ridgewireless.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from opencolo.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from southfront.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from volico.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from ohioix.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'kde-unstable.db' from nocix.mm.fcix.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)
[ble: exit 1]
[alex@alex-pc ~]$
It looks like that doesn’t exist right now. What is the status of it? Will it exist again in the future, or has it moved somewhere else, or is there something else I can do to make it work properly?
I tried my utmost to research this before posting. I searched these forums and the Manjaro wiki for information about this and couldn’t find any up-to-date information about it. Thanks for any help you can provide.