Librewolf in extra repo

As of today, you can find Librewolf in the extra repository.

❯ pacman -Ss librewolf                              
extra/librewolf 153.0.3_1-1

I just received a message on the Arch mailing list. If you want to update Librewolf, just reinstall it using

sudo pacman -S librewolf

ABOUT TIME!

╭─ ~ ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 09:05:10 AM ξ‚°
╰─❯ sudo pacman -S librewolf
[sudo] password for wombat: 
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: librewolf-153.0.3_1-1 and librewolf-bin-1:153.0.1_1-1 are in conflict. Remove librewolf-bin? [y/N] y

Package (2)      Old Version    New Version  Net Change   Download Size

librewolf-bin    1:153.0.1_1-1               -449.17 MiB               
extra/librewolf                 153.0.3_1-1   285.81 MiB      78.14 MiB

Total Download Size:     78.14 MiB
Total Installed Size:   285.81 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      -163.36 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
 librewolf-153.0.3_1-1-x86_64                                78.1 MiB  31.4 MiB/s 00:02 [--------------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                                          [--------------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                                        [--------------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                                             [--------------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                                       [--------------------------------------------------] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) removing librewolf-bin                                                            [--------------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) installing librewolf                                                              [--------------------------------------------------] 100%
Optional dependencies for librewolf
    hunspell-dictionary: Spell checking
    libnotify: Notification integration [installed]
    networkmanager: Location detection via available WiFi networks [installed]
    speech-dispatcher: Text-to-Speech
    xdg-desktop-portal: Screensharing with Wayland [installed]
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/3) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/3) Updating icon theme caches...
(3/3) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...

╭─ ~ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 28s ξ‚³ 09:05:43 AM ξ‚°
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Thanks for sharing the news, @swh!

You’re welcome :vulcan_salute:

Yeah, that’s right, it’s about time. They just need someone to maintain the package.

Great to know, thank you. Will do what Uncle did, later.

edit

@UncleSpellbinder @swh did either of you uninstall aur librewolf-bin?

Well I don’t know but to me it looks like at least someone did :grinning_face:

looking for conflicting packages...
:: librewolf-153.0.3_1-1 and librewolf-bin-1:153.0.1_1-1 are in conflict. Remove librewolf-bin? [y/N] y

that answered my question

The profile remains untouched?!

Yes.
I have deinstalled librewolf-bin and the installed librewolf. If you want, you can move the .librewolf folders and then move back

Yes. Librewolf launched with the exact same settings intact. Same profile.

Whilst I noticed it on the archlinux.org main page in the top right recent updates I thought it was a mistake so googled it and found your post on another forum :slight_smile: during the outage it was a little slice of home…

hmm, when you start it, do you notice a kinda of lag loading the profile?

Nope. No change at all. Loads immediately.

Currently, as of this posting, I’m not finding librewolf in the extra repository. :thinking:

Refresh your mirrors. It’s available…

I refresh my mirrors with this:
reflector --protocol https --verbose --latest 25 --sort rate | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Interesting. Refreshed mirrors (both Arch and EOS - via the EOS Welcome panel) and even rebooted for good luck… no dice. Not any response with sudo pacman -Ss librewolf :man_shrugging:

I couldn’t see it either until I’d done a system update but maybe that was just coincidence.

Odd. :thinking:

╭─ ~ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 2m 28s ξ‚³ 12:58:11 PM ξ‚°
╰─❯ sudo pacman -Ss librewolf
extra/librewolf 153.0.3_1-4 [installed]
    Community-maintained fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom

╭─ ~ ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 12:58:59 PM ξ‚°
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It’s definitely there, I just checked!

Not sure what a system update means (do you mean sudo pacman -Syu?) but I just rebooted having updated the mirrors and am still getting no reply from sudo pacman -Ss librewolf. Just an empty terminal prompt right back at me. :man_shrugging:

Getting weird here. I lost my mojo. :roll_eyes: