2016-08-17 - TexLive, Kernels, Lumina, Calamares, MATE

[Blueriver]

Hi community,

TeXLive packages have been updated to the 2016 version. The most notable change is that the biber utility is now provided as a separate package. You can install it normally using pacman. Pacman hooks are now used in the TeXLive packages so the update will be less verbose than in past years.

Some might have noticed that three of our current supported kernels already reached EOL (end of life) a while ago. With the our next stable update we will remove those from our repos. As a extra information: 4.6 series also reached EOL by now. That kernel will be still available for some weeks.

Non the less we added now two new kernel series. On 64bit of Manjaro you can now install a current realtime kernel and a longtime supported realtime kernel. These kernel series are created in mind of music artists needs, aimed at providing extremely low latency times.. You can check out this video to know more about them:

https://youtu.be/-ovPETYpKjc

We also moved our Netbook-Kernel up a notch and updated it to v4.4 kernel.

Calamares is now at 2.3-beta3, which introduces a better locale handling during installation and Lumina-Desktop sees its first stable release. Besides Wine 1.9.16 we have updated some lib32-libraries, sqlite and renewed some python and haskell packages.

Last but not least we are working on the transition back to Arch package for our MATE desktop environment. We already created some MATE preview install media for testing. Give us feedback, so we may fix them if this move created some issues for you.

Archlinux upstream fixes are now from: Sat Aug 13 07:37 CEST 2016.

Please report any issues you may have with this update. Also read our troubleshoots to avoid known issues. Additional it would be good to test one of our preview install medias to check these changes on a fresh install. A detailed list of package changes can be foun here .

Kind regards,
Philip Müller and the Manjaro Development Team


Troubleshoots

LibreOffice and GTK3

LibreOffice might be broken on gtk-based Desktop Environments. Workaround would be to force a look to Libreoffice by editing /etc/profile.d/libreoffice*sh. We recommend to uncomment SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk. Our KDE edition isn't affected by this issue.

GTK3

With this we updated Gnome and GTK to 3.20. This will break most of the themes, which will be fixed if and when their developers decide to update them. Some GTK 3.20-compliant themes are ready now - see further down this post.

The new default Manjaro GTK theme, which is GTK 3.20 compatible, is Vertex-Maia

You can install it with:

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sudo pacman -Sy vertex-maia-themes vertex-maia-icon-theme xcursor-maia

KDE users should default to Maia theme:

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sudo pacman -Sy maia-icon-theme gtk-theme-maia plasma5-themes-maia xcursor-maia

QT apps style with GTK - only needed for non-KDE desktop environments!

With QT 5.7 you need to install qt5-styleplugins and qt5ct and configure your system to have an unified look again.


ufw

If you have issues with ufw not working anymore, you have to copy your custom rules to a different folder. Do it like this:

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sudo cp -v /usr/lib/ufw/user.rules.pacsave /etc/ufw/user.rules
sudo cp -v /usr/lib/ufw/user6.rules.pacsave /etc/ufw/user6.rules

steam

Steam might not work due incompatiblity of libgpg. You my try followed command to "fix" it:

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find ~/.steam/root/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" -o -name "libgpg-error.so*" \) -print -delete

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find ~/.local/share/Steam/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" -o -name "libgpg-error.so*" \) -print -delete

Reference: Archlinux wiki


Current supported kernels
Linux310 3.10.102
Linux312 3.12.62
Linux314 3.14.75
Linux316 3.16.36
Linux318 3.18.39
Linux319 3.19.8.23 [EOL]
Linux41 4.1.30
Linux42 4.2.8.13 [EOL]
Linux44 4.4.17
Linux45 4.5.7 [EOL]
Linux46 4.6.6
Linux47 4.7.0
Linux-RT-LTS 4.4.15-rt23
Linux-RT 4.6.5-rt10

Package changes
stable community i686: 771 new and 759 removed package(s)
stable community x86_64: 802 new and 759 removed package(s)
stable core i686: 44 new and 45 removed package(s)
stable core x86_64: 44 new and 45 removed package(s)
stable extra i686: 691 new and 686 removed package(s)
stable extra x86_64: 691 new and 686 removed package(s)
stable multilib x86_64: 47 new and 48 removed package(s)

Quelle

[manjarofan]

Läuft....

[Blueriver]

Das Update lief sauber durch und alles funktioniert einwandfrei.

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System:    Host: Dirk Kernel: 4.7.0-0-MANJARO x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 6.1.1)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 (Gtk 2.24.30) info: xfce4-panel dm: lightdm
           Distro: Manjaro Linux