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ParadoxPod

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Registered: 2025-07-12

Posts: 1

What happened to arduino-avr-core?

Recently, I decided to do some microcontroller work with an Arduino board I had lying around. I didn't want to install the Arduino IDE, and figured I could probably just grab the relevant header files and use AVR-GCC, so I did a quick search to see if the headers were provided by an arch package:

> pacman -F Arduino.h
extra/arduino-avr-core 1.8.3-2
    usr/share/arduino/hardware/archlinux-arduino/avr/cores/arduino/Arduino.h

Nice! However, a problem quickly appeared:

> pacman -S arduino-avr-core
error: target not found: arduino-avr-core

I could not install the package, and checking https://archlinux.org/packages/ pulled up nothing. I realized I could not remember the last time I updated the files database, and sure enough:

> pacman -Fy
...

> pacman -F Arduino.h
# Nothing!

The package is gone!

I found the package on the AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arduino-avr-core), but that still left me with two questions:

1) Why was arduino-avr-core removed from extras?
2) Is there a way to look up packages removed from the official repos? Not to download them obviously, but just to see that a package existed and was removed (and possibly see the reason for removal?)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,680

Re: What happened to arduino-avr-core?

Packages are often dropped from the official repos when they become bitrot or no TUs want to maintain them.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,241

Re: What happened to arduino-avr-core?

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/groups/arc … -/inactive

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,279

Re: What happened to arduino-avr-core?

> pacman -F Arduino.h
extra/arduino-avr-core 1.8.3-2
    usr/share/arduino/hardware/archlinux-arduino/avr/cores/arduino/Arduino.h

You should run sudo pacman -Fy occasionally to update the database used for lookups .

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