So, in light of the whole Arch AUR mess, I’m trying to clean out underused/unused AUR applications. I’ve already removed Chaotic AUR and Chaotic AUR-specific installs (such as the CachyOS kernel). ─❯ paclist chaotic-aur error: repository "chaotic-aur" was not found. ─❯ Now, I need to decide how to…

[image] drunkenvicar: Could you imagine running librewolf with a flatpak though? I can’t either :slight_smile: . You don’t like flatpak as a universal packaging format in general or you don’t like Librewolf’s flatpak version in particular?

[image] cactux: You don’t like flatpak as a universal packaging format in general or you don’t like Librewolf’s flatpak version in particular? It’s a great question and possibly a matter of gut instinct or stupid phobias which may be the same thing. I mean the guy/girl that maintains the -bin …

For me, the thing I wanted to do the most was remove npm. Since this killed my neovim setup (plugins), I switched back to code. Not ideal, but it’s one less thing to worry about.

Thanks for the clarification! So it’s not flatpak per se. I mean, I have seen some posts sometimes from some users who seem to be viscerally against flatpak. So I just wondered.

Well, I was about to open a thread to figure out what to do. I have several AUR packages on EOS and Arch, but so far I haven’t noticed any strange behavior. But I’d like to know how to check whether the AUR packages I have are “healthy” or contain malicious code. I don’t have the skills to figure …

check this thread for the script [image] Malicious AUR Checkup Script Pacman & AUR helpers From CachyOS Moderator cscs TL;DR Here’s what I got… ─❯ curl -s https://cscs.pastes.sh/raw/aurvulntest20260611.sh | bash Checking for infected AUR packages (480 t…

there’s a cachy test I used in that thread ^ and a github one. (I found a 3rd AUR check on my own) [image] Sermor: I don’t have the skills to figure that out, though. Me either. I had to give some things permissions and read directions 5 times til I could make it work and just to see the NOT…

Thanks! [sermor@archlinux ~]$ curl -s https://cscs.pastes.sh/raw/aurvulntest20260611.sh | bash Checking for infected AUR packages (1741 total)... Clean: None of the known infected packages were installed within 2 days of the campaign. I’m infection-free on Arch. I’ll check on EOS too.

[image] Sermor: infected AUR packages (1741 total)... Oh boy, this thing is just growing for each passing hour :grimacing:

EOS is fine too, thankfully. [sermor@sermor-eospc ~]$ curl -s https://cscs.pastes.sh/raw/aurvulntest20260611.sh | bash Checking for infected AUR packages (1741 total)... Clean: None of the known infected packages were installed within 2 days of the campaign. Ok, next question: what do I do now, …

Attempting to clean my AUR apps/packages

General system Pacman & AUR helpers

thefrog June 13, 2026, 8:18pm 17

check this thread for the script