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Contents 1 Why unofficial user repositories 2 The future of Unofficial repos 3 The community repository, maintained by the TUs 4 List of PUR (unofficial user repositories) | i686 5 The following repositories are no longer functioning (1 May 08) 6 List of PUR (unofficial user repositories) | x86-64 7 Add your own repository to this list

[edit] Why unofficial user repositories

Since the AUR only allows users to upload PKGBUILD and other package build related files, but does not provide a means for distributing a binary package, a user may want to create a binary repository of their packages elsewhere.

However: Be advised, if you only put your packages in your private repo and neglect AUR, your package will never make it into community repo nor a central storage space(AUR) which is bad for users, since they will have to add 'YetAnotherThird-party-Repo'(YATR) to their /etc/pacman.conf which will make it slower to update. But the main reason you should not have repo-only packages is that not having packages in a central place confuses and gives users a second job in that they now have to search for Repositories in addition to Packages.

Thus the best way to have a private repo is to offer it as a supplement to the AUR for those users who don't want to compile. You should try to avoid to offer it as a substitute.

[edit] The future of Unofficial repos

I'd like to see more work of this type. Sometimes there are certain projects that don't mesh well with other things, such as the community repo. The 'kdemod' project is a good example.

In the future, well-thought-out user repositories may be ideal for lots of supplementary things. Forming a "web of trust" is important in cases like this, so we may begin keeping a list of "recommended" repositories somewhere, in order to make it seem more official and trustworthy.

Phrakture 12:50, 18 May 2007 (EDT)

[edit] The community repository, maintained by the TUs

[community]
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/i686/

The community repository is included in pacman's default configuration, but disabled. You can enable it by removing the # in these two lines:

[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/community

[edit] List of PUR (unofficial user repositories) | i686

[archlinuxfr]
## The french Archlinux communities packages
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686

[Victor]
Server = http://personales.ya.com/vmromanos/arch/pkgs

[archie]
Server = ftp://ftp.sunsite.dk/projects/archie/packages

[dibble]
Server = http://dtw.jiwe.org/pkgs/dibble

[hussam]
## Contains daily Firefox trunk cvs i686 packages.
Server = http://ht990332.googlepages.com/

[janitux]
Server = http://janitux.mortals.dy.fi 

[kasmol]
Server = http://kasmol.netsons.org/arch/software

[kde-split]
## Splitted kde packages. Original kdebase and kdelibs are required. Work in progress
Server = http://gotux.altervista.org/arch/packages/i686/

[Lapis]
## Linux-sevenler packages.Zemberek , virtualbox and other stuff
Server = http://arch.linux-sevenler.org/pkgs 

[nvidia-beta]
## nvidia 0.9.* beta drivers
Server = http://box.decemplex.net/~thomas/nvidia-beta/

[obarchie]
Server = http://dtw.jiwe.org/pkgs/obarchie

[oo-voikko]
## Openoffice and linguistic software and data for Finnish
Server = http://www.kotikone.fi/purch/arch/oo-voikko/i686

[perlcpan]
## More info here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PerlCPAN_Repository
Server = http://arch.os-zen.net/perlcpan/packages

[rabyte]
Server = http://oxygen4.free.fr/arch

[tango]
# dmdtango package (dmd compiler + tango library)
Server = http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/tango/archlinux/i686

[kdemod]
# splitted KDE... take a look:
# - http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=23319
# - http://kdemod.ath.cx/
# if there's a big change and you would stay on the bleeding edge you may replace
# 'current' with 'testing'
Server = http://kdemod.ath.cx/repo/current/i686

[seif]
Server = http://seif.hopto.org/arch/

[cgr-i686]
# packages for some ChicoGeek's PKGBUILDs
Server = http://cgr.i686.googlepages.com/

[lnf]
# packages include: firefox3-systemcairo, cairo-ubuntu (+deps)
# tor-alpha, radeonhd-git, gajim-svn, mpd-svn, sonata-svn, vidalia
Server = http://reactor.reality-protocol.de/lnf

[compiz-fusion]
#compiz-fusion-git
Server = http://compiz.dreamz-box.de/i686

[Tj]
#New repo, currently only has wine (always latest :) ) and toribash (requested). 
#I will be compiling more stuff. I will always have latest wine though. 
#Requests are welcome, go to the site to find email link.

Server = http://science.uwaterloo.ca/~tharihar

 

[edit] The following repositories are no longer functioning (1 May 08)

[fatsobob]
Server = http://www.animeroot.com/fatsobob/repo

[blub]
## by bobrik
Server = http://bobrik.hovel.ru/archlinux/blub

[chman]
Server = http://arch.shakebox.org/pkg/

[cjdj]
Server = http://www.cjdj.org/arch/pkg 

[compiz-fusion]
Server = http://arch.nesl247.org/i686

[darwin]
Server = http://darwin.info.tm/arch/i686

[dsa]
Server = http://sistemas.unilestemg.br/douglas/downloads/arch

[fubar]
Server = http://marcosaxo.madoka.be/files/arch

[happymars]
# D-related packages
Server = http://happymars.yi.org/happymars/i686

[karsten] 
## 32-bit
Server = http://arch.os-zen.net/pkg/karsten/i686 

[marfis]
Server = http://arch.marfis.org/binaries

[nooms]
## visibility-svn/openbox-svn, works with pacman3 only
Server = http://arch.nooms.de/

[n0yd]
## Misc pkg's (Songbird, kiba-dock, other "goodies" :D ) Note:  Possible non-free contents
Server = http://www.n0yd.net/arch

[pharfox]
Server = http://arch.debianbox.be

[takhis] 
## e17, ...
Server = ftp://takhis.net/arch

[vegai]
Server = http://people.jyu.fi/~vpkaihla/arch

[venox]
Server = http://arch.lworks.cjb.net/

[wael]
Server = http://wael.nasreddine.com/files/arch/repo/wael/os/i686/ 

[garbage]
Server = http://exire.dyndns.org:8081/arch/repo

[archlinux.pl]
## The polish Archlinux communities packages
Server = http://bednarek.org.pl/arch/i686

[brain0]
## gcc2, gvpe, siefs
Server = http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/thomas.baechler/arch/brain0/os/i686

[danimoth]
## Xgl and dependencies
Server = http://jjdanimoth.altervista.org/arch/i686

[edit] List of PUR (unofficial user repositories) | x86-64

[archlinuxfr]
## The french Archlinux communities packages
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64/

[kdemod]
# splitted KDE... take a look:
# - http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=23319
# - http://kdemod.ath.cx/
# if there's a big change and you would stay on the bleeding edge you may replace
# 'current' with 'testing'
Server = http://kdemod.ath.cx/repo/current/x86_64

[olympus]
## by zeus
## see http://archlinux.org.ru/forum/index.php/topic,39.0.html for more info
Server = http://zeus.hovel.ru/archlinux/olympus/

[oo-voikko]
## Openoffice and linguistic software and data for Finnish
Server = http://www.kotikone.fi/purch/arch/oo-voikko/x86_64

[homegnu]
## Some packages for the tuxdroid + custom versions of some stuff
Server = http://data.homegnu.net/archlinux

[compiz-fusion]
#compiz-fusion-git
Server = http://compiz.dreamz-box.de/x86_64

[edit] Add your own repository to this list

If you have your own repository, please add this to this list, so that all other users knows where to find your packages.