[Stable Update] 2026-07-23 - Kernels, Mesa, VirtualBox, Gambas3, COSMIC, Plasma, KDE Frameworks

[scotty65]

@deemon

what? why? I mean I don’t have even any tesseract installed… and I don’t want it in the first place. at all.

[Testing Update] 2026-07-17 - Plasma, KDE Framework, COSMIC, Pipewire, Firefox

Plasma’s screenshot application, spectacle, has recently implemented OCR (to extract text from screenshot images), so tesseract is a required dependency. You should install the tesseract-data package that matches your language (for example, for English, install tesseract-data-eng). The tesseract & tesseract-data-eng packages don’t take up much storage space: ❯ pamac info tesseract | grep Size Installed Size : 4.8 MB ❯ pamac info tesseract-data-eng | grep Size Installed Size : 2…