GitHub Releases Break Pacman Repo Support – Workaround and Fix

[the-codesculptor]

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I ran into an issue trying to use the LizardByte pacman-repo as described in their README by adding this to pacman.conf:

[lizardbyte]  
SigLevel = Optional  
Server = https://github.com/LizardByte/pacman-repo/releases/latest/download  

This does not work anymore. pacman throws a 404 when trying to retrieve lizardbyte.db.

Why this fails

GitHub serves release files from a redirect URLs. Pacman expects direct access and cannot handle those redirects. So although you can see the .db file in your browser, pacman can't fetch it.

Workaround

1. Go to the LizardByte pacman repo release and download all the release files except the source code.

2. Place them all in a local directory (I used /srv/pacman/lizardbyte/).

3. Set up your local repo in /etc/pacman.conf:

[lizardbyte]
SigLevel = Optional
Server = file:///srv/pacman/lizardbyte/

4. Fix file permissions:

sudo chmod -R a+r /srv/pacman/lizardbyte

5. After all that, you should be able to install sunshine:

    sudo pacman -Sy
    sudo pacman -S sunshine

If I missed something, I would love to know what it was. I'm new to Arch but learning every day. Otherwise it would be nice if the README in the pacman-repo was updated to reflect what I went through.

[ReenigneArcher]

This does not work anymore. pacman throws a 404 when trying to retrieve lizardbyte.db.

When is the last time it worked for you? If ever?

[the-codesculptor]

Today was the first time I have attempted to use it today, so I'm not sure.

[ReenigneArcher]

In that case, I believe this is not a common issue since no one else has ever reported it.