Getting started with the CachyOS repo

ptr1337

Welcome Community,

The script which we provide will auto detect your CPU march and if your system supports v3 optimizations, it will automatically add them so that you pull in packages which are optimized and more secure when you update!

The following script will also backup your pacman.conf.

Run the following Script:

wget https://mirror.cachyos.org/cachyos-repo.tar.xz
tar xvf cachyos-repo.tar.xz
cd repo
sudo ./cachyos-repo.sh

Grimy1928

Exactly what I needed! Thank you!

CachyOS

Grimy1928

Please also test our new iso and give some feedback.
Your feedback will be very much valueable which encourage us to do more hard work !

– Greetings, CachyOS

Grimy1928

CachyOS New ISO is amazing. Everything is so well optimised and runs like a dream, hands down the best experience I’ve had from a performance standpoint of any distro so far. Only problem which I’ve discussed privately with ptr is the KDE widget menu not opening when selecting it. Not sure why it’s only happening from your repo as it works the using the stock KDE from normal repos. Until this problem is fixed I don’t know if I can run the distro as I can’t stand not theming it how I like but it’s only a minor bug although some like me see it as kinda major. I hear others don’t have this issue so not sure if it’s driver related or something specific to my Intel machine or not. But yeah other than that problem it’s been amazing so far and once that problem is sorted I will fully set up my machine and test a few things out and give feedback where I can. Thanks for all the hard work!

vnepogodin

Thank you for the response!
Hope you will use it someday as your main distro

Grimy1928

vnepogodin Thank you! I can promise you this, as soon as I can use the widget menu it will be my primary and only distro haha. It’s that good!

NedVedSed

Can I possibly use the CachyOS repo in any other Arch-Based Distro?

ptr1337

NedVedSed

Hi,

You can use it but it is not allowed for distribution itself.
So, if you work on a own Distribution - no.
If you are user of any Distribution - yes

NedVedSed

So as long as I add the repo as a user and install it, it should generally work?
That’s great!

ptr1337

NedVedSed
Yes, correct 🙂

zenten1

Hi Team,

Thank you for all you hard work. I am coming back to achy after a little hiatus in Garuda Linux. I mostly game and trade online. So wine/bottles/steam are my friends. Weirdly, I struggled this time with the install. I wasn’t able to manually partition my drives. I like to keep a separate home partition. The errors didn’t stop until I basically let the calimares installer take control of my whole nvme. I wish I had saved the errors but a last I just wanted to get started gaming. I’m up and running now can could be happier with the performance as usual. Thanks again. See you on patreon soon I’m sure.

Kepos

Quite impressed by Cachy OS.
Searched distrowatch for a good or at least working Budgie DE version, but only clicked Cachy OS by coincidence. You should probably ask them to update their description to include all your offered DE’s.
Stable, reliable and fast, that’s my first impression. Looking forward to do more testing.

ptr1337

Kepos

Hi,

Thanks for your report! I will contact distrowatch to update the desktop enviroments.
I think he will put them in the desc. then 🙂

Feel free to bring feedback to CachyOS!

Locutus

Over the last several days I’ve been getting the below with your repos in Arch. I have never had a issue with them working before, and I’ve had them in this install for at least a month. I did a search to see if there were any updated repos from you but the only thing I can find is what I have been using to install your repos. Any idea what is going on? Thanks

 cachyos-v3                       96.2 KiB  78.2 KiB/s 00:01 [#################################] 100%
 cachyos-core-v3                 129.4 KiB   105 KiB/s 00:01 [#################################] 100%
 cachyos-extra-v3                  4.0 MiB  1935 KiB/s 00:02 [#################################] 100%
 cachyos                         366.2 KiB   261 KiB/s 00:01 [#################################] 100%
error: cachyos-v3: signature from "CachyOS <admin@cachyos.org>" is unknown trust
error: cachyos-core-v3: signature from "CachyOS <admin@cachyos.org>" is unknown trust
error: cachyos-extra-v3: signature from "CachyOS <admin@cachyos.org>" is unknown trust
error: cachyos: signature from "CachyOS <admin@cachyos.org>" is unknown trust
error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

https://wiki.cachyos.org/en/home/Repo

EDIT:

ptr1337 Hey @everyone ,

Our GPG key expired because I have mixed up the dates (thought it is in october).
Sorry for this, but we already were able to fix it.

Please run the following commands:

sudo pacman-key –recv-keys F3B607488DB35A47 –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com
sudo pacman-key –lsign-key F3B607488DB35A47
or if you still have issues
sudo pacman-key –refresh-keys
sudo pacman -Syu

Be aware that at the command above, will come some errors due the keyring from arch and their wkd.
It will take around 5 minutes till this process is done.

This will fetch the gpg keyring from the servers and the signed packages are working again.
We will release also soon a fresh cachyos-keyring package, which fixes the ISOs also.

Thanks and best regards

The CachyOS Team

I fixed my issue with your one post I quoted. New question is are you going to fix the wiki? Thanks

ptr1337

Locutus

We can add a wiki entry about, but we also added a message in pacman, how to fix this.
I think this is the easiest way to bring this to all users.

LOGOS

Hello , new to this OS and had been running good , but strange thing is when running and update it will ask ie :
Replace attica with cachyos-extra-v3/attica5? [Y/n]

and it ask many many many things the same way , just a list that grows and grows and grows to such a long list of things asking me if I want to replace this with that and I don’t even know what they are , so I just close it out , it is like asking if I want to change dozens of things that I don’t know enough about to make that choice . It makes me wonder why it asks so many things , so basically know I am considering going to a different OS that is more developed
I hope you get it sorted out

Thank you

Joeybologna88

I could be totally wrong, but my guess is the packages you have on your computer from the original install, are all from the regular x86_64v2 or maybe it’s just x86_64, not extremely important though which it is. Now after having your system installed and the Cachy-repos set up, it’s likely detecting that you have a processor capable of x86_64 v3 instruction sets. The other option would be that those packages were originally pulled from the arch Repo, and as they’ve compiled more and more v3 packages to add to the cachy repos. So the package manager is asking if you’d like to replace your current, less optimized packages, for the better optimized v3 ones that are available. That’s kinda what this whole Distro is built around. I am fairly new to all this myself, so I could be way off.Figured I’d give a shot at helping though.

Joeybologna88

I was totally wrong I’m pretty sure. Here’s the post with the likely answer….
[https://forum.cachyos.org/d/300-some-warnings-again-in-recent-updates-local-version-is-newer-than](https://)