[From Arch] glibc 2.27-2 and pam 1.3.0-2 may require manual intervention The new version of glibc removes support for NIS and NIS+. The default /etc/nsswitch.conf file provided by filesystem package already reflec...
[From Arch] zita-resampler 1.6.0-1 -> 2 update requires manual intervention The zita-resampler 1.6.0-1 package was missing a library symlink that has been readded in 1.6.0-2. If you installed 1.6.0-1, ldconfig would...
CrazyToon has passed away A former Parabola contributor, CrazyToon, has passed away earlier today, December 26th at 4:40 AM UTC, at the age of 60. On September 30th,...
Continuation of i686 support As part of our community's heightened interest in platforms amenable to user freedom, Parabola will continue supporting the i686 port for th...
Kernels deprecation The following packages have been removed from the [kernels] repository: linux-libre-apparmor linux-libre-xen linux-libre-nand linux-libre-au...
New OpenRC and LXDE ISOs Since a considerable amount of Parabola developers and users prefer to use the OpenRC init system instead of Systemd, which is the default,...
Perl library path change The perl package now uses a versioned path for compiled modules. This means that modules built for a non-matching perl version will not be l...
If you are having trouble with Megver83 GPG Key Specifically the newest Linux-libre kernel Try running: $ sudo pacman -S parabola-keyring $ sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys
Mesa upgrade may require manual intervention Due to a little boondoggle, some users may have trouble upgrading mesa because pacman can't figure out the dependency tree. If this is the c...
[From Arch] ca-certificates-utils 20170307-1 upgrade requires manual intervention The upgrade to ca-certificates-utils 20170307-1 requires manual intervention because a symlink which used to be generated post-install has b...
Chromium blacklisted to respect your-freedom Due to outstanding privacy and freedom violations in Chromium, qt5-webengine and popcorntime have been removed. We will make our best effort...
Dries Buytaert: Promoting the Drupal community from within the Drupal software Jacob Rockowitz recently posted a blog post with ideas about how we can make Drupal software more welcoming . What I found most interesting...
Robot Van Gogh will paint your portrait Maker Faire Rome, where everything started I participated in Maker Faire Rome back in December 2017. I came with the rest of the Arduino cre...