Error datetime

General system Pacman & AUR helpers
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yay -Syyu

xfce4-datetime-plugin - exit status 4

2

Please provide some context, and the full output of yay -Syyu.

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==> Vérification des dépendances pour la compilation…
==> ATTENTION : Utilisation de l’arbre $srcdir/ existant
==> Suppression du répertoire $pkgdir/ existant…
==> Lancement de build()…
/home/ober/.cache/yay/xfce4-datetime-plugin/PKGBUILD: ligne 21: ./configure: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce nom
==> ERREUR : Une erreur s’est produite dans build().
Abandon…
→ erreur lors de la compilation de : xfce4-datetime-plugin-exit status 4
vérification des dépendances…

Paquet (1) Ancienne version Changement net

intltool 0.51.0-6 -0,15 MiB

Taille totale supprimée : 0,15 MiB

:: Voulez-vous désinstaller ces paquets ? [O/n]
:: Traitement des changements du paquet…
(1/1) désinstallation de intltool [--------------------------------------] 100%
:: Exécution des crochets (« hooks ») de post-transaction…
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate…
→ Échec de l’installation des paquets suivants. Une intervention manuelle est requise :
xfce4-datetime-plugin - exit status 4

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Translated:

/home/ober/.cache/yay/xfce4-datetime-plugin/PKGBUILD: line 21: ./configure: No such file or directory

==> ERROR: An error occurred in build().

It’s an AUR package and it looks as though the issue is with the PKGBUILD file. Other user’s have reported:

chiz commented on 2026-05-10 15:27 (UTC)

PKGBUILD: line 21: ./configure: No such file or directory

Ralf_Mardorf commented on 2026-05-08 22:28 (UTC)

$ CHROOT=~/Desktop/chroot
$ mkdir $CHROOT
$ mkarchroot $CHROOT/root base-devel
$ arch-nspawn $CHROOT/root pacman -Syu
$ wget -q https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/xfce4-datetime-plugin.tar.gz
$ tar xf xfce4-datetime-plugin.tar.gz
$ cd xfce4-datetime-plugin/
$ makechrootpkg -c -r $CHROOT
==> Starting build()...
/startdir/PKGBUILD: line 16: ./configure: No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Build failed, check /home/rocketmouse/Desktop/chroot/rocketmouse/build
5

Well, the application is officially end-of-life:

https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-datetime-plugin/start

As of the 4.18 release, this plugin is considered End-of-Life(EOL) . For similar functionality, consider using the built-in Clock plugin.

It looks like the AUR package has been kept running by the package maintainer(s), who have been supplying bug fixes and seem to be very active. Perhaps this bug will be fixed soon.

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thanks

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It’s probably best to switch to using the Clock panel plugin instead, and remove datetime with sudo pacman -R xfce4-datetime-plugin.