MX-Arch Package Repository

This is the package repository for MX-Arch — the Arch Linux build of MX Linux. It carries the MX tools and desktop configuration packaged for Arch, and is intended for MX-Arch systems rather than for stock Arch installs.

It is not the Debian-based MX repository; that lives at mxrepo.com. Packages here are built by the home:mx-packaging OBS project and are signed.

Setting this up for the first time? See installation instructions below the package list.

Contents of /os/x86_64/

Install

Install the mxarch-repo package. It adds the signing key to pacman's keyring and installs the mirror list:

sudo pacman -U https://github.com/MX-Linux/mxarch-repo/releases/latest/download/mxarch-repo.pkg.tar.zst

If that fails with failed retrieving file 'mxarch-repo.pkg.tar.zst.sig', it's because the release doesn't publish a detached signature for its own package — there is no key to sign it with until this package has installed one. Most pacman.confs require a package signature by default, so this first bootstrap install has to skip that one check:

sudo bash -c 'pacman -U --config <(pacman-conf | sed "s/^SigLevel.*/SigLevel = Never/") https://github.com/MX-Linux/mxarch-repo/releases/latest/download/mxarch-repo.pkg.tar.zst'

This only disables verification for that one invocation — /etc/pacman.conf is never touched. Every package this repo ever serves afterward is still checked against the key this step installs.

Wrapped in sudo bash -c '...' because <(...) (process substitution) is a bash/zsh feature — fish needs its own psub syntax instead, and other shells may not support it at all. Running it inside bash -c works the same regardless of your login shell.

Then enable the repository and update:

sudo mxarch-enable
sudo pacman -Syu

mxarch-enable appends the [mxarch] section to /etc/pacman.conf, keeping a backup of the previous file. It is a separate step on purpose: pacman.conf belongs to the pacman package, and editing it as a side effect of installing is not something a package should do.

Source and releases: MX-Linux/mxarch-repo — latest release (mxarch-repo.pkg.tar.zst).

Manual setup

If you would rather not install the package, import the key before enabling the repository. With SigLevel = Required, an enabled repository whose database will not verify makes every pacman transaction fail — including the one that would install the key.

curl -O https://arch.mxrepo.com/os/x86_64/mxarch.key
sudo pacman-key --add mxarch.key
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 442D90008FE173AE

Then add to /etc/pacman.conf:

[mxarch]
Server = https://arch.mxrepo.com/os/$arch

sudo pacman -Sy