Package Issues

Issues related to software packages shipping in our repository. Topics should center around issues with the packages themselves (such as lack of enablement, broken functionality) than issues that would be handled upstream.

Skype being deprecated from 3rd party in favor of flatpak
- AnnouncementsDevelopmentPackage Issues
- Hey everyone (and especially Skype users), this is a quick post to inform you that we will be deprecating Skype from our Third Party packages in favor of the flatpak version. ...
22 replies
I
Screen brightness command on Budgie
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- Greetings to the entire community from Argentina... I tell you that I am controlling the screen brightness on the Budgie desktop with commands from the terminal. I have instal...
1 reply
B
Zim note-taker in repo: broken spell check
- DevelopmentPackage IssuesSolved
- auditioning note-taking apps so on to gnote and rednotebook, and simple and others. So long Zim. This is just FYI for Devs. I've moved on. $ eopkg sr spellcheck pyenchant - Py...
9 replies
IMPORTANT: Issues with latest update / GNOME / Budgie / GTK apps
- DevelopmentPackage IssuesSupport
- A number of issues have cropped up with the latest GNOME stack update, affecting mainly users of the GNOME DE, Budgie DE, and to a lesser extent certain users of other DEs wit...
113 replies
TLP settings in Solus
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- If you are using TLP, have you been aware that the Solus package comes with a modified TLP config? To me this was a bit of surprise and I only found out as I was building the ...
9 replies
Geary window blanks after being minimized for apparently too long
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- As the title says, Geary 43 seems to turn into a blank window when left minimized for too long. Also seems to happen after waking the computer up after having the window minim...
3 replies
N
Materia theme elements grayish
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- Hi, My understanding is that Materia is the recommended theme for Solus currently, but as I switch to Materia-compact, the bottom panel elements with text are grayish. You can...
8 replies
Scribus crashes due to Signal #6
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- Hello. Since last update, scribus crashes at launch on my two computer. This is the error : In terminal : scribus: magick/error.c :1025 : ThrowLoggedException: l'assertion « e...
4 replies
K
Implementation of package removal "safety switch"
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- Hi. I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct forum but I'm a long-time user of Solus Linux. It's a really nice distro and I've found it to be very responsive on older system...
5 replies
O
Rstudio can’t install packages
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- Hi, Rstudio complains about the stdio.h header not being found in /usr/include/R/Rinternals.h:39:11. This header isn’t directly in /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-solus-linux/12/include...
0 replies
S
Crystal Programming Language
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- Hi, There seems to be an issue with Crystal language causing an error when trying to run/build crystal files: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgc (this usually means you need to ins...
6 replies
Latest Update(Budgie)
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- has anyone else noticed that alot of things are out of order?!?!? when i installed Budgie, it gave me the dark mode option. I recently performed "the update"(about some time t...
8 replies
problem with vhosts httpd
- DevelopmentPackage IssuesSupportQuestion
- Hello everyone I have problem with vhosts creation in solus is there a guide I installed httpd with php it works mails when I require vhosts in the httpd it blocks
0 replies
P
Budgie total freezes with last upgrade
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- Hi /all, I encounter an issue with the last updates proposed which freezes totally budgie. The only solution I have in mind for the moment is sudo eopkg history -t number to r...
1 reply
M
Support of repositories inside Iran
- DevelopmentPackage IssuesSupport
- Dear developers of Solus distribution Hi We request you to create an official repository in Iran to expand the popularity of your distribution in Iran. thank you
2 replies
Texlive 2018 in 2022?
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- Hey people, I recently started this question in the Solus Reddit but I was hinted to this forum and it might be better suited here. As the title suggests I stumbled upon the h...
3 replies
OBS Wayland likely has a missing dependency (qt6-wayland)
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- I'm aware Wayland isn't officially supported yet. Apparently OBS was updated (running 28.0.1) and I wasn't able to launch it on wayland anymore. Running in a terminal it repor...
0 replies
C
Will Solus support systemd-homed
- DevelopmentPackage IssuesSolvedNo
- Systemd offers a new service for managing home directories (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-homed). One advantage is the possibility to encrypt home directori...
5 replies
P
New package do not create menu item
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- Hi! I'd like to help resolving https://dev.getsol.us/T10029 by packaging czkawka, but I have some issues. The package.yml so far works, but the install do not create a new men...
3 replies
N
Please update Sublime Text in third party repo.
- DevelopmentPackage Issues
- Hi, When installed as a snap package, Sublime Text 4 has some issues, among others, with building pandoc documents. That is because snap packages work in isolation from thte O...
0 replies

Skype being deprecated from 3rd party in favor of flatpak

Screen brightness command on Budgie

Zim note-taker in repo: broken spell check

IMPORTANT: Issues with latest update / GNOME / Budgie / GTK apps

TLP settings in Solus

Geary window blanks after being minimized for apparently too long

Materia theme elements grayish

Scribus crashes due to Signal #6

Implementation of package removal "safety switch"

Rstudio can’t install packages

Crystal Programming Language

Latest Update(Budgie)

problem with vhosts httpd

Budgie total freezes with last upgrade

Support of repositories inside Iran

Texlive 2018 in 2022?

OBS Wayland likely has a missing dependency (qt6-wayland)

Will Solus support systemd-homed

New package do not create menu item

Please update Sublime Text in third party repo.