not able to install latest paru version

[Jagadishwar49]

paru 2.0.3-1

Description : after cloning and while doing makepkg -si getting error for higher dependency

Error :

error: failed to run custom build command foralpm v3.0.4 (https://github.com/archlinux/alpm.rs?rev=306342#306342ef)`

Caused by: process didn't exit successfully: /home/jagan/paru/src/paru-2.0.3/target/release/build/alpm-fe8130be9696cf00/build-script-build (exit status: 101) --- stderr thread 'main' panicked at /home/jagan/.cargo/git/checkouts/alpm.rs-a0070a235cf20bfa/306342e/alpm/build.rs:25:13: this version of alpm.rs does not support libalpm v15.0.0 only v14.x.x is supported note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish... ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting...`

[Jagadishwar49]

i tired linking also : sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libalpm.so.15.0.0 /usr/lib/libalpm.so.14 got error like already there ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/lib/libalpm.so.14': File exists

[michelesr]

@Jagadishwar49 https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru/issues/1239#issuecomment-2351021340

[Jagadishwar49]

@michelesr getting conflicts with paru and paru-git can you let me know how to remove paru i tried pacman but didnt find the pkg

[michelesr]

@michelesr getting conflicts with paru and paru-git can you let me know how to remove paru i tried pacman but didnt find the pkg

I just did sudo pacman -Rs paru paru-debug before installing paru-git with makepkg -si.

[pihkaal]

hey, installing with cargo install --git https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru.git works

thx: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru/issues/1166#issuecomment-2031007447

[zancas]

I am seeing the same issue with the update to alpm lagging behind paru requirement.

[ghost]

There was an update for pacman version 7.0.0.r3.g7736133-1 which caused the issue. I reverted back to version pacman-6.1.0-3 and put pacman in IgnorePkgs in /etc/pacman.conf. It works fine. We will have to wait for paru to be updated.

• Download pacman version 6.1 here
• Go to the directory where the file is downloaded and do a sudo pacman -U file_name
• Put pacman in IgnorePkgs in /etc/pacman.conf.

[zancas]

Is there an issue on the pacman repo?

I don't immediately see how to open an issue here:

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman

[ClementTsang]

I don't immediately see how to open an issue here:

I presume you need an account first:

But why would you need to open an issue on the pacman repo? The issue is on paru's end, isn't it? And it's at least temporarily resolved by just installing paru-git until everything lands.

[fam007e]

Likewise yay is also not working.This is due to dependency issue because of new update in pacman. This happened due to libalpm.so.14 getting updated to libalpm.so.15. Hopefully, they (aur-helpers) are updated quickly.

[sleepy-goth]

Yes, basically I think that the paru-git package is updated, but the paru package binary not, so just compile from scratch the other package

[ZombieLurker]

Remove 'paru' and 'paru-debug' with pacman, then manually clone and install 'paru-git'. No issue with 'paru-git'.

[kj-sh604]

I re-wrote the paru-git PKGBUILD, and I think it could be useful for some folks. Essentially, it builds the latest paru git commit into a regular paru release package instead of a paru-git package. That way, when the official paru package eventually gets updated, you'll automatically get the latest release without having to remember to remove paru-git. It's admittedly a bit of a quick janky re-write 😅 (I promise my AUR PKGBUILDs are much cleaner 😆), but I think it could be a decent temporary fix for some people.

pkgname=paru
_pkgname=paru
pkgver=2.0.3
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='Feature packed AUR helper'
url='https://github.com/morganamilo/paru'
source=("git+https://github.com/morganamilo/paru")
backup=("etc/paru.conf")
arch=('i686' 'pentium4' 'x86_64' 'arm' 'armv7h' 'armv6h' 'aarch64')
license=('GPL-3.0-or-later')
makedepends=('cargo')
depends=('git' 'pacman' 'libalpm.so>=14')
optdepends=('bat: colored pkgbuild printing' 'devtools: build in chroot and downloading pkgbuilds')
conflicts=('paru-git')
provides=('paru')
sha256sums=(SKIP)

prepare() {
  cd "$_pkgname"
  cargo fetch --locked --target "$(rustc -vV | sed -n 's|host: ||p')"
}

build () {
  cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname"

  if pacman -T pacman-git > /dev/null; then
    _features+="git,"
  fi

  if [[ $(rustc -V) == *"nightly"* ]]; then
    _features+="backtrace,"
  fi

  if [[ $CARCH != x86_64 ]]; then
    export CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_LTO=off
  fi

  PARU_VERSION=$pkgver cargo build --frozen --features "${_features:-}" --release --target-dir target
  ./scripts/mkmo locale/
}

package() {
  cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname"

  install -Dm755 target/release/paru "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/paru"
  install -Dm644 paru.conf "${pkgdir}/etc/paru.conf"

  install -Dm644 man/paru.8 "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man8/paru.8"
  install -Dm644 man/paru.conf.5 "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man5/paru.conf.5"

  install -Dm644 completions/bash "${pkgdir}/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/paru.bash"
  install -Dm644 completions/fish "${pkgdir}/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/paru.fish"
  install -Dm644 completions/zsh "${pkgdir}/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_paru"

  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/"
  cp -r locale "$pkgdir/usr/share/"
}

[hirak99]

To clarify a few points, as per my understanding -

1. This is not a pacman bug. Yes pacman was updated to 7.0 which caused this, but the solution is to update paru as well.
2. Paru dependencies are already updated in the master branch, https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru/commit/90656a901479b77cb3b7a54e393dff9a0ca6a45f which is why paru-git works.
3. All we need now is a release from paru to get paru AUR working as well.

[TTimo]

Or use paru-git AUR in the meantime (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/paru-git).

[kj-sh604]

I re-wrote the paru-git PKGBUILD, and I think it could be useful for some folks. Essentially, it builds the latest paru git commit into a regular paru release package instead of a paru-git package. That way, when the official paru package eventually gets updated, you'll automatically get the latest release without having to remember to remove paru-git. It's admittedly a bit of a quick janky re-write 😅 (I promise my AUR PKGBUILDs are much cleaner 😆), but I think it could be a decent temporary fix for some people.

pkgname=paru
_pkgname=paru
pkgver=2.0.3
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='Feature packed AUR helper'
url='https://github.com/morganamilo/paru'
source=("git+https://github.com/morganamilo/paru")
backup=("etc/paru.conf")
arch=('i686' 'pentium4' 'x86_64' 'arm' 'armv7h' 'armv6h' 'aarch64')
license=('GPL-3.0-or-later')
makedepends=('cargo')
depends=('git' 'pacman' 'libalpm.so>=14')
optdepends=('bat: colored pkgbuild printing' 'devtools: build in chroot and downloading pkgbuilds')
conflicts=('paru-git')
provides=('paru')
sha256sums=(SKIP)

prepare() {
  cd "$_pkgname"
  cargo fetch --locked --target "$(rustc -vV | sed -n 's|host: ||p')"
}

build () {
  cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname"

  if pacman -T pacman-git > /dev/null; then
    _features+="git,"
  fi

  if [[ $(rustc -V) == *"nightly"* ]]; then
    _features+="backtrace,"
  fi

  if [[ $CARCH != x86_64 ]]; then
    export CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_LTO=off
  fi

  PARU_VERSION=$pkgver cargo build --frozen --features "${_features:-}" --release --target-dir target
  ./scripts/mkmo locale/
}

package() {
  cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname"

  install -Dm755 target/release/paru "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/paru"
  install -Dm644 paru.conf "${pkgdir}/etc/paru.conf"

  install -Dm644 man/paru.8 "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man8/paru.8"
  install -Dm644 man/paru.conf.5 "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man5/paru.conf.5"

  install -Dm644 completions/bash "${pkgdir}/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/paru.bash"
  install -Dm644 completions/fish "${pkgdir}/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/paru.fish"
  install -Dm644 completions/zsh "${pkgdir}/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_paru"

  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/"
  cp -r locale "$pkgdir/usr/share/"
}

I just want to reference a reply from another thread from @TheGentleChainsaw, who provided a much more elegant temporary solution than mine: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru/issues/1239#issuecomment-2351465944

I am currently using their PKGBUILD as well 👌. This might be helpful for some people, as we wait for an update on the actual paru PKGBUILD in the AUR.

Cheers y'all 🍻.