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2023-02-20
2023-02-12
Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention
2023-02-12 - Robin Candau
On February 2nd, the
base-develpackage group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
If you installed thebase-develpackage group prior to this date, explicitly re-install it to get the newbase-develpackage installed on the system:
pacman -Syu base-devel
– Arch Linux - News: Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention
2023-02-03
vlc player crashes while playing videos
A solution, regarding to rob215x, is:
VLC would crash immediately when trying to play any video. I opened VLC directly, and changed Preferences > Video > Output from “Automatic” to “VDPAU” and it works now. I found that solution on another thread but I still don’t understand the problem and why VDPAU works.
2023-01-24
PHP 8.2 update and introduction of legacy branch
2023-01-13 - Pierre Schmitz
The php packages have been updated to the latest version 8.2. In addition to this, a new set of php-legacy packages have been introduced. These will follow the oldest but still actively supported PHP branch. This enables users to install the latest version but also introduces the option to use third party applications that might rely on an older version. Both branches will be kept up to date following our rolling release model.
phpandphp-legacycan be installed at the same time as the latter uses a-legacysuffix for its binaries and configuration files.In addition to this, the php7 packages have been removed as they reached end of life. The
imapextension will no longer be provided as it relies on thec-clientlibrary which has been abandoned for many years.
– Arch Linux - News: PHP 8.2 update and introduction of legacy branch
2022-12-20
pacman-mirrors was temporarily renamed to manjaro-mirrors (changed has been reverted)
This was done to avoid confusion with an AUR / WSL package with the same name and avoid possible breakage. It should be a seamless transition.
Rename project (#183) · Issues · Applications / pacman-mirrors · GitLab
dbus-x11 demoted to AUR
dbus-x11 was installed out of the box on some flavors of Manjaro as of a year ago, but is no longer needed. If you have it installed, please replace it with dbus using the following:
sudo pacman -Syu dbus
XFCE becomes unusable if libxfce4ui-nocsd is still installed
So far XFCE Classic project hasn’t updated yet to 4.18 series. We pushed 4.17.0 version of the package, but don’t know if that helps in that situation. It is recommended to install the regular libxfce4ui package to avoid issues and comment on this issue: libxfce4ui 4.18.0 released · Issue #15 · Xfce-Classic/libxfce4ui-nocsd · GitHub
2022-12-06
python-cairo 1.23.0-2 update requires manual intervention
The python-cairo package prior to version 1.23.0-2 was missing the compiled python module. This has been fixed in 1.23.0-2, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked pyc file that was created. If you receive this error
python-cairo: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cairo/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc exists in filesystem
when updating, use
pacman -Syu --overwrite /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cairo/__pycache__/\*
to perform the upgrade.