[SOLVED]AUR packages questions (not in AUR, Orphan,out of date)

saalty · 2025-02-23 08:34:34

Dear all!

After a prety long time, few weeks ago, I started to actively use my old laptop with an installed Arch again.
I had minor issues what I can say solved right now, and the system works well, but I have questions about packages in (or not in) AUR. During the system update I got this messages:

$ yay -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra                                                                     7.7 MiB  3.60 MiB/s 00:02 [############################################################] 100%
 multilib is up to date
:: Searching AUR for updates...
:: Searching databases for updates...
 -> Packages not in AUR: e4rat  jre7-openjdk  jre7-openjdk-headless  xorg-server-utils
 -> Orphan (unmaintained) AUR Packages: gstreamer0.10  gstreamer0.10-base  gstreamer0.10-base-plugins
 -> Flagged Out Of Date AUR Packages: gstreamer0.10  gstreamer0.10-base  gstreamer0.10-base-plugins
 there is nothing to do

But it looks like no orphans:

$ sudo pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qdtq)
error: no targets specified (use -h for help)

Do I need to do something? Or I should listen to the message: " there is nothing to do"?

greetz
saalty

Last edited by saalty (2025-02-23 17:57:55)

seth · 2025-02-23 09:15:42

You're intentionally using yay to conflate repos and AUR and cause maxmium confusion?

xorg-server-utils fell out of the repos ages ago¹, it will now list in

pacman -Qmq

as foreign package (and you can btw. delete that)
From there yay wants to update it from the AUR, but it's not an AUR package tbw - just foreign and yay ass·u·me·s that it's an AUR package, fails to find it there and tells you.

tl;dr, you've a bunch of stale packages from yesteryear around that are neither in the repos nor the AUR.
pacman -Qi them, nothing should depend on them - then you can remove them.

¹https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=225932

saalty · 2025-02-23 13:04:17

Thank you for your answer!
I did it what you wrote, now only two packages remains, but it looks like these are dependences for java, what I need:

$ yay -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Searching AUR for updates...
:: Searching databases for updates...
 -> Packages not in AUR: jre7-openjdk  jre7-openjdk-headless
 there is nothing to do

$ sudo pacman -Qi jre7-openjdk
Name            : jre7-openjdk
Version         : 7.u261_2.6.22-1
Description     : OpenJDK Java 7 full runtime environment
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://icedtea.classpath.org
Licenses        : custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : java-runtime=7  java-runtime-openjdk=7
Depends On      : jre7-openjdk-headless=7.u261_2.6.22-1  xdg-utils  hicolor-icon-theme
Optional Deps   : icedtea-web: web browser plugin + Java Web Start [installed]
                  alsa-lib: for basic sound support [installed]
                  giflib: for gif format support [installed]
                  libpulse: for advanced sound support [installed]
                  gtk2: for the Gtk+ look and feel - desktop usage [installed]
                  libxtst: linked in xawt/libmawt.so - desktop usage [installed]
Required By     : icedtea-web
Optional For    : libbluray  libjxl  libreoffice-still
Conflicts With  : openjdk6
Replaces        : jre7-openjdk-wm
Installed Size  : 439.37 KiB
Packager        : Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Thu 07 May 2020 02:13:08 PM CEST
Install Date    : Fri 08 May 2020 12:41:35 PM CEST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : Yes
Validated By    : Signature

Lone_Wolf · 2025-02-23 13:14:53

java 7 is ancient and icedtea-web can work fine with java 8, 11 , 17 and 21 .

remove the 2 java 7 packages.

saalty · 2025-02-23 15:53:36

Lone_Wolf wrote:

java 7 is ancient and icedtea-web can work fine with java 8, 11 , 17 and 21 .
remove the 2 java 7 packages.

I removed without a problem, thanx for the help

seth · 2025-02-23 16:02:17

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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#1 2025-02-23 08:34:34

[SOLVED]AUR packages questions (not in AUR, Orphan,out of date)

#2 2025-02-23 09:15:42

Re: [SOLVED]AUR packages questions (not in AUR, Orphan,out of date)

#3 2025-02-23 13:04:17

Re: [SOLVED]AUR packages questions (not in AUR, Orphan,out of date)

#4 2025-02-23 13:14:53

Re: [SOLVED]AUR packages questions (not in AUR, Orphan,out of date)

#5 2025-02-23 15:53:36

Re: [SOLVED]AUR packages questions (not in AUR, Orphan,out of date)

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Re: [SOLVED]AUR packages questions (not in AUR, Orphan,out of date)

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