OSDN.net is down (broken links on Manjaro Wiki)

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Hi, I wanted to search for the “Manjaro Beginner’s User Guide” but discovered the link to the PDF distribution of it on OSDN.net is down - here’s the link from the wiki page:

https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro/storage/Manjaro-User-Guide.pdf/

I’m getting the “504 Gateway Time-out” error and I’m not alone:

Any mirror for the files?

btw. I know this PDF guide is shipped with Manjaro XFCE, but it’s not there on GNOME edition, which is another issue that I’ll describe in another post in relevant forum section

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The user guide has not been updated in years.
I dont think it is supposed to be shipped with any edition these days.

The wiki has been neglected too.

( it also seems that the web master is creating spearate docs for some reason … docs.manjaro.org )

That all said … we cannot control OSDN and its up time.

It appears while I was typing this it became available again.

Though sporadically.

curl to the rescue…

curl -O osdn.dl.osdn.net/storage/g/m/ma/manjaro/Manjaro-User-Guide.pdf

I also re-uploaded it at 0x0.st so you may access it that way:

And I will warn again - the user guide is severely outdated. From ~2018 or so.

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Hello fellow Manjaro users,

One of the nice things I found out about Manjaro when I did my first install of the XFCE Edition back in 2020, was that it came with a handy user manual in form of a “Manjaro User’s Guide” PDF. I might be old-school, but I really love handy manuals.

In early 2023 I installed Manjaro GNOME Edition. I recently noticed that the Manjaro User Guide is not included in this distribution - does not appear in the GNOME Menu like it appears on Manjaro XFCE’s Whisker menu. I consulted Manjaro wiki, but the link to download the user guide does not work. I didn’t find it on my Manjaro GNOME system either:

$ ls /usr/share/doc/manjaro/Beginner_User_Guide.pdf  
ls: cannot access '/usr/share/doc/manjaro/Beginner_User_Guide.pdf': No such file or directory

Shouldn’t be the PDF file included in the GNOME edition as well?
Perhaps it’d be nice if it was a package that would be a part of the ISO build process, but could also be installed retrospectively for systems missing it, like mine.

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It seems you did not read my reply to your first thread.

So … the User Guide was retired a long while ago and should probably not be in any edition.

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Thank you for uploading the PDF, although I managed to download it using the curl invocation you provided, so at least their storage server works (website still errors 504 for me).

I also found out through this forum post, which I’d post to if it wasn’t closed, that here’s the User Guide’s source repo:

If anyone else was searching for it, one can find the PDF of the most recent 2020 edition under asciidoc folder there:

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I didn’t know that. I personally find the “Maintaining your system” chapter to still be quite relevant (at least the useful pacman one-liners)

If the PDF is deprecated/unmaintained/outdated, it’d be perhaps a good idea to mention it where it appears the Wiki and in the source repository README so that no more questions like mine appear :slight_smile:

Anyway, now I know. Thank you so much for your reply and clarifying the matter, and have a great day/night wherever you are! Sorry for taking your time!

If anyone else is looking for this PDF, please refer to answers in this thread.