Programs from the AUR that I haven't installed

[pp2222]

Why are these packages installed on my system if I’ve never installed anything from the AUR?

[scotty65]

Both of those packages have recently been removed from the repos. You can safely remove accounts-qml-module as nothing in the repos depends on it.

However, if removing linux-firmware-meta, then you can replace it with the linux-firmware package which has the same dependencies.

You can remove linux-firmware-meta completely & not install linux-firmware, however if you plan to do that, then you should read the following post to ensure that you don’t remove any required firmware packages from your system:

[Testing Update] 2026-05-26 - Kernels, Thunderbird, Firefox, Pipewire, Gstreamer

Manjaro previously had linux-firmware package overlays to support older kernels. That is no longer necessary, so they were dropped in favor of the original Arch packages. linux-firmware is just a meta package to pull in all the firmware packages, so it can either be installed manually to replace linux-firmware-meta or the latter can be removed. To mark the package(s) you want to keep as explicitly installed, use the Mark as explicitly installed button in Add/Remove Software or via CLI: sudo…

[pp2222]

Thanks for the clarification!
After I deleted them, all my desktop settings and screen resolution changed… Luckily, I had a system snapshot that I restored.

Can you please provide a step-by-step guide (or where I can find instructions) to safely replace them with packages from the official repository as I want to disable AUR?

[jofi]

@pp2222

After I deleted them,

It isn’t clear to me what you did. Did you install linux-firmware to replace linux-firmware-meta or did you simply delete linux-firmware-meta without installing linux-firmware. I would also first remove the accounts-qml-module to get this out of the way.

So first remove accounts-qml-module and reboot to check if everything is still ok.

Second replace linux-firmware-meta with linux-firmware, and reboot again to check.

[pp2222]

It works!
First I removed accounts-qml-module and rebooted
Then I installed linux-firmware and during installation it asked if I want to replace linux-firmware-meta with this package, I agreed and after installation I rebooted the system.
Everything works great, thanks again!

[nikgnomic]

@Yochanan

@2old4gaming

linux-firmware-meta … showed up as Orphaned

@scotty65

linux-firmware now replaces linux-firmware-meta

Manjaro previously had linux-firmware package overlays to support older kernels. That is no longer necessary, so they were dropped in favor of the original Arch packages.

linux-firmware is just a meta package to pull in all the firmware packages, so it can either be installed manually to replace linux-firmware-meta or the latter can be removed.

To mark the package(s) you want to keep as explicitly installed, use the Mark as explicitly installed button in Add/Remove Software or via CLI:

sudo pacman -D --asexplicit <package-name1> <package-name2> 

 

[Teo]

Packages that got dropped from the repos as not needed anymore (like the qml) or got replaced with something else (like the meta) end up as aur that you didn’t install or as foreign packages not even from aur (from nowhere like the meta). Usually they can be removed.

[nikgnomic]

@Teo

Packages that got dropped from the repos… …end up as aur that you didn’t install

Screenshot in original post does not show linux-firmware-meta as an AUR package

but it is a Foreign package since it was dropped from Manjaro repository