Possible to install other kernels from unofficial repos through AKM?

[OdiousImp]

@pebcak

Just one minor thing: the window is not resizable in height only in width as you can see from the picture below.

Thats a YAD bug I believe? I remember @manuel saying it?

[pebcak]

Alright, thanks for the info! I didn’t know about it.

[Othoric]

With the new update I was unable to see all of the kernel options since I use the chaotic-aur repo and the height wasn’t resizable. So I added the form option --scroll to give me the ability to look at the complete list. Perhaps that option could be added in a future update? As from what I can tell it does nothing unless the list of kernels is too long to fit in the window.

[manuel]

@pebcak @Othoric
Thanks for the reports!

AKM needed to be slightly adjusted for the new repos.
And scrolling is added too.
The new version 2.7.8-1 should be in the mirrors soon.

[manuel]

@pebcak

I had another repo in the pacman.conf with linux-lts54

AKM currently doesn’t handle packages that have the same name but are in different repos. The only exception to this rule is the bundle of the official testing and stable repos.

[pebcak]

Thanks for the clarification! That explains it.

[manuel]

By the way, AKM does not currently handle the additional repos well, for example it does not show the names of the additional repos.

There may be other bugs related to using additional repos. So if anyone encounters such bugs, please report as soon as possible.

[manuel]

@manuel

or example it does not show the names of the additional repos.

Couldn’t help it, now the repo name is showing with the non-testing repo kernels.

[pebcak]

@manuel

to be honest, that was not in my plans

Great work @manuel for something you didn’t planned for
Kudos!

[manuel]

Now that this is new code, there unfortunately can be bugs.
As mentioned before, please report a.s.a.p.

[pebcak]

2.7.9-1 looks good here and seems to be working well.

[manuel]

Thanks for testing!

Unfortunately I found a bug in the latest AKM. Meanwhile I recommend using pacman or yay or paru for managing kernels.

[manuel]

Version 2.7.10-1 should fix the bugs. The main bug was that package removal failed, but didn’t cause anything otherwise bad.
New version arrives at mirrors soon.

[ricklinux]

Holy kernel batman! What are all these specialty kernels?

[ricklinux]

I have run akm and i don’t see any new kernel editions?

[manuel]

If you want to see new (unofficial) kernels, you should add some (unofficial) repos that include them.

[ricklinux]

I haven’t seen the new akm version come through yet?

[manuel]

@Othoric

So I added the form option --scroll

To mitigate the yad height bug, I also added option --scroll to AKM.
(Unfortunately adding option --scroll to the yad command made the yad bug even worse.)

So if your AKM window shows loads of kernels, you may optionally use option --scroll with AKM.

[Othoric]

I just created an alias for it and everything is working great. Thanks!

[Kresimir]

If you’re looking for older LTS kernels, I can wholeheartedly recommend @jonathon’s kernel repo:

Unofficial repo for older LTS kernels

Older LTS kernels Following on from the above thread, I’m thinking about building I have built LTS kernels from the AUR to make them available in an unofficial user repo. My current builds are now available here: https://repo.m2x.dev/current/kernel-lts/x86_64/ These are built directly from the AUR packaging files. YMMV etc. This repo has the same stepped cadence available as the other repos if you are already using one of those (make sure you don’t mix cadences). How to use Add this to yo…

I’ve been using it for quite some time, and I find it very reliable and completely trustworthy.