Warning Link to Warning
My blackarch was completely brokon after a system upgrade on March 11th 2025.
I decided to stick with Windows 11 and WSL as the best Linux distribution.
The Issue I Encountered Link to The Issue I Encountered
unable to retrieve community.db: 404 errors
The solution I found: bbs archlinux
Then I discovered that the community db was merged into the extra repository two years ago, and it was decided to clean up old, unused repos by 2025-03-01.
I guess the Blackarch maintenance team might not have noticed this issue.
Archlinux is a Rolling Release Link to Archlinux is a Rolling Release
This means it cannot go without updates for too long, as it might encounter Breaking Changes like this one.
I think it’s necessary to perform a major update at least once a month.
Common Commands Link to Common Commands
To edit PKGBUILD then install it.
BASH
1yay -G <package>
makepkg -siReferences Link to References
pacman/Pacnew and Pacsave Arch Linux repository mirrorlist