No sure when, most likely after the recent update.
When getting Outdated, nothing shows from AUR that I have installed, like Chrome, etc.
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To enable support for AUR you first need to install a compatible helper such as trizen or pacaur. trizen is the easiest since it is available in the repos. Either use Octopi to install the package trizen or pacaur or use pacman in the terminal.
Once you have installed trizen you can enable support in the Octopi settings by accessing the menu under Tools->Options. Then go to the AUR tab and enable trizen. You may also want to enable “Search for outdated AUR packages” to allow Octopi to update AUR packages.
To search the AUR using Octopi click on the alien icon to the left of the search bar.
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Better is to use yay as the AUR helper. trizen hasn’t been maintained anymore since 2022, and is itself an AUR package now, while yay is being maintained and is in the official Manjaro repositories.
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Thank you both for the responses.
I have yay installed and Octopi had been working, though when showing for outdated, I needed to manually refresh.
The current version doesn’t work. I have reinstalled Octopi and deleted the config file, but no help.
I’m not sure what exactly the problem is you’re experiencing, but the way octopi works is that it does not show a list of AUR packages as it does for repo packages.
In order to use the AUR functionality, you have to type the name (or partial name) of a package in the input field at the top, then click the 
button in its toolbar, and then press Return/Enter.
This is how it has always worked. The reason for this is that it would otherwise spam the AUR server with requests, which is a problem the pamac GUI had at one point. Ever since then, pamac maintains its own local cache of AUR titles. octopi on the other hand acts as a direct front-end to pacman and your AUR helper — it does not use a local cache.
Currently to search for AUR packages, it works. It doesn’t show updates. I tried to downgrade to an earlier version 0.18.1-4, but then it doesn’t start.
octopi doesn’t show updates. The octopi notifier however does, but it only checks for updates at set intervals, so it’s not real-time.
What you can see in octopi — provided that there really are updates and that the notifier icon has turned red — is that installed packages for which there are updates will then have a red icon in front of them instead of a green icon. But to the best of my recollection — I could be wrong about this — it does not do that for AUR packages.
Either way, if there are updates, then the notifier icon will turn red, and then clicking the notifier icon will show you a list of all the updates, and a choice whether to install them.
No, I don’t mean notifying me on updates.
What worked before was I open Octopi, View->Outdated, press refresh button, I got a list of outdated items, including AUR items. Now I only get repository items, no AUR items there.
Well, maybe your AUR packages are not out-of-date. They generally don’t get updated at the same frequency as repo packages. Some AUR packages might get updated sooner, some later.
My own strategy is to not try updating anything from the AUR unless there’s a bundled update for the repo packages — in which case I update those first — or if there is a compatibility problem with an AUR package after an update to certain repo packages.
Not the case, actually I don’t update too often. I found many AUR updates listed in pamac, but they don’t show up in Octopi, no matter what I do.
The correct way to use Manjaro is to update whenever the update notifier icon says there are updates.
In addition to that, you should also subscribe to notifications for the Announcements > Stable Updates category, because every bundled update comes with a dedicated announcement thread, of which the first post details the important changes, and the second post details the known problems and how to work around them. 
Well, I don’t use the pamac GUI because it’s unreliable, and it often gives you conflicting information.
You can’t really compare octopi and pamac. They are different beasts.
If you want to know whether there are updates, plain and simple, issue the command below… 
sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syu && pamac update --aur --devel
If it tells you “Nothing to do”, then there are no updates.
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yay -Qu
zed-preview-bin 0.220.1-1 -> 0.220.2-1
mongosh-bin 2.5.10-1 -> 2.6.0-1
plymouth-theme-manjaro 2.2-1 -> 2.2-3
but in Octopi Outdated, nothing is shown. I set yay as the helper.
When Octopi is not showing AUR packages - it is worth looking upstream - perhaps the issue has been reported - or just waiting for your contribution
It may be worth noting that even though you have a supported helper installed, Octopi may still be configured to not use AUR.
$ pamac search yay | grep Installed
yay 12.5.7-1 [Installed] extra
$ pamac search octopi | grep Installed
alpm-octopi-utils 1.0.2-12 [Installed] extra
octopi 0.18.1+74+gda61be2-1 [Installed] extra
$ cat ~/.config/octopi/octopi.conf
[General]
...
Aur_Tool_Name=DO_NOT_USE_AUR
...
âžś ~ pamac search yay | grep Installed
yay 12.5.7-1 [Installed] extra
âžś ~ pamac search octopi | grep Installed
alpm-octopi-utils 1.0.2-12 [Installed] extra
octopi 0.18.1+74+gda61be2-1 [Installed] extra
âžś ~ cat ~/.config/octopi/octopi.conf
Aur_Builddir=/tmp
Aur_PackageList_Ordered_Col=1
Aur_PackageList_Sort_Order=0
Aur_Tool_Name=yay
I checked Octopi’s github site, the latest version is 0.18.1 released on Sept 30. My experience is that Octopi worked a couple weeks ago, presumably I was using 0.18.1?
The current version installed is 0.18.1+74+gda61be2-1:
Packager
Mark Wagie <mark@manjaro.org>
Architecture
x86_64
Build Date
Saturday, December 13, 2025 8:15:17 PM GMT+00:00
I use pacman and makepkg - sometimes pamac build - so I had to actually install both octopi and yay.
I actually opened octopi and search for zed-preview-bin which would provide a result if I activated AUR otherwise not.
Search works for me with the skull. just Outdated showing no AUR packages
AUR packages can only show as outdated if they are marked as such by the AUR admins or the package maintainers. They are not regular packages like in the repos, but simply build scripts.
Then how to explain:
There is a difference between…
“This package is outdated.”
… and
“There is a newer version of this package.”
In the first case — “outdated” — it means that (the build script for) the package was flagged as outdated by the community, while there isn’t a newer version of the package yet.
An outdated package is a package that hasn’t been maintained in a long time and doesn’t work anymore in an updated (Arch Linux) system.
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Perhaps this is simply a matter of how Octopi is prioritising.
If you really think it should be different - I suggest you open an issue with the developer - as suggested above.
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