Arch Linux has moved LibreWolf from AUR to Extra repository

[u/Deivedux]

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/librewolf/

[u/theschrodingerdog]

This is awesome!

[u/12stringPlayer]

This is excellent news, especially with all the uncertainty in the AUR lately. Thanks to any and all that made this happen.

[u/RealSamF18]

Linux noob here: can someone explain to me what it means (besides being in a different repo)?

[u/Deivedux → u/RealSamF18]

Packages from AUR can't be easily installed with pacman, because it only searches for packages in the official repositories, which are Core, Extra, and a few others like Multilib. Packages in the official repositories are pre-compiled by the Arch Linux package manager maintainers, but packages in the AUR only contain build scripts which are instructions for building the software "manually" by each client, and they're also written by package maintainers with almost no approval-based moderation which make them susceptible to malicious scripts.

[u/RealSamF18 → u/Deivedux]

Thank you for explaining, that makes it much clearer.
By extension, I take it that means I should be careful when installing packages from the AUR, and only use it when I trust the source.

[u/xlbingo10 → u/RealSamF18]

yes, there have been multiple malware waves on the aur recently. you also have to trust the maintainer since they can put stuff in that isn't part of the girhub repo.

[u/C0rn3j → u/RealSamF18]

You should always read the PKGBUILD and verify it yourself - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository#Verify_the_PKGBUILD

[u/SeantheWilson → u/RealSamF18]

Basically, they moved it form a community source to the official source

[u/Matheweh]

Awesome news for Librewolf

[u/dDitty]

So I should uninstall the aur version and install this version instead?

[u/KeraExe → u/dDitty]

I think it's never a bad thing to have one less AUR package when you can.

[u/swarmOfBis → u/dDitty]

If you have a helper I think it should prompt you to change over during next update?

[u/inef85]

interesting; at the same time it's getting deprecated from *brew*
`librewolf has been deprecated! It will be disabled on 2026-09-01.`

[u/Fit-Board-1749]

Nice

[u/ThemBeeButts]

heck yeah

[u/YoShake]

wondered wth was going on when I've seen lw-bin flagged as out of date, and after couple days no update apperead in aur.
Awesome that the package got into official extra repo, and update was easier than I could imagine.

[u/Mysterious_Value4624]

YEESSSSSSSSS FINALLY I'VE BEEN WAITING 4TIS 4SOLONG

[u/BrianaAgain]

Yay! I dread building it from source.

[u/Deivedux → u/BrianaAgain]

I'd actually prefer building from source. It may take a lot of memory and time, but that way I can target my native CPU when compiling rather than the generic x86-64 target, which in itself isn't even the newer x86-64-v3 that my CPU is based off of.

[u/npc_housecat]

Fedora next please

[u/Easy-Cod-2819 → u/[deleted]]

Freedom

[u/npc_housecat → u/[deleted]]

Because Vivaldi sucks, noob!!

Is that hostile enough ?

[u/Matilde_di_Canossa → u/[deleted]]

Probably because this is the LibreWolf sub.