[Stable Update] 2025-07-12 - Kernels, Systemd, GNOME, NVIDIA, Plasma, Firefox, VLC splits

Yes, well, you’re barking up the wrong tree, my friend. Why do you think I keep advising people to just use pacman (or octopi) instead of pamac? :man_shrugging:

Note: I do actually use the CLI version of pamac, but only from a tty, and only for the AUR stuff. And if it fails — which it does, occasionally — then I use yay for the AUR stuff.

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I can’t edit the wiki post up top, so I just want to say I ran into the same error and fixed it with the same solution. Feels like some package is missing a dependency.

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Sorry, it was not intended to you :wink:
I like pamac for searching packages, info, dependencies, link to repositories and web sites… and updating with a GUI -when it does not crash :grin:

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But it’s the wrong one. packagekit should not be used in Arch-based distributions because it is badly configured and it will ruin your permissions.

For that matter, the problem did not exist in Plasma 6.3.5 and also does not exist in Plasma 6.4.0.

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Amazing, what is the package name for installing the Plasma Help Center?

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khelpcenter
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This post doesn’t seem to allow editing. I would like to add this:

VLC doesn't work properly

Most of the functionalities of VLC were split up into optional dependencies
Check the optional dependencies and their description to install the ones you need (or simply install vlc-plugins-all

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This is because you need TL3 status or above; e.g. Regular. :wink:

The qualifying criteria for editing Wiki posts was changed some time back.

You probably should add this to Know issues and solutions.

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Okay, thanks for the information. It would be great if some of the moderators could help add the VLC thing to the Wiki post.

Same here again

Wine still not working with certain processors, in my case Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5800

The last working version for me and others with this issue is 10.7.1.

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/wine-not-working-following-2025-06-23-update/179175

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=306838

there is AUR (en) - wine32

After this single event failure, the system has been about 10 times in standby now and this problem seems to be gone.

It looks like the problem is really the lack of AVX in the processor. It doesn’t work for me on N5030. Wait Wine 10.12

Done. :wink:


Done. :wink:

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Hi guys, I ran the update with sudo pacman -Syu and soon (EDIT: actually, almost immediately) after pacman started upgrading packages the system logged me out on its own.

I logged back in and ps -e showed no running pacman process. Now pacman -Syu says there is nothing to do but clearly the update hasn’t been completed.

Any suggestions on what to do, please? I haven’t rebooted yet.

EDIT: well, I’ve rebooted and everything looks good. I guess the update must have been completed in the short time in between I got logged out and logged back in again. Doesn’t make much sense but reality wins :wink:

4 posts were split to a new topic: File conflict issue with vlc

Audacity will no longer launch.

Launching by command line shows no errors, just a silent exit back to prompt.


After reinstalling it I get this error:


I have a job to do and Audacity is not going to get it done for me today, but I found this software that worked nicely to edit some audio files:

Ocenaudio
https://www.ocenaudio.com/

It is available to download from the AUR.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ocenaudio-bin