this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2026
367 points (99.7% liked)

Technology

85376 readers
4159 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 26 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (9 children)

Ok, but I was expecting something a bit more automated then opening a list of package in kate and comparing it to my list of installed AUR package... Plus it's 400 package so that's a lot of things to check and plenty of space to miss one package by manually checking.

But I get it I'm lazy and just need to script something myself. This is affecting so many people I thought we would have a script to check quickly if you are "infected".

Edit : thanks for the numerous script sent as reply ! But I'm all set now, thanks !

[–] dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago
comm -1 -2 <(pacman -Qqm | sort) <(curl -s https://md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA | sort)
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 hours ago

It's at the bottom of the doc:

echo "Checking for infected AUR packages (${#INFECTED_PKGS[@]} total)..."
echo

found=()
for pkg in "${INFECTED_PKGS[@]}"; do
    if pacman -Qi "$pkg" &>/dev/null; then
        found+=("$pkg")
    fi
done

if [[ ${#found[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo "Clean: none of the known infected packages are installed."
else
    echo "WARNING: ${#found[@]} infected package(s) found:"
    for pkg in "${found[@]}"; do
        echo "  - $pkg"
    done
fi

Not sure why it uses -Qi instead of -Qm since there's no point in scanning pacman packages, but I'm no expert

[–] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 27 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

It took Arch ~19 years just to get archinstall.

Something tells me there won't be a script.

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 13 points 22 hours ago

The link is a script

[–] esc@piefed.social 5 points 20 hours ago

Arch had curses based installator for a long time, it became unmaintained.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 22 hours ago

A lot of those 19 years were times where only nerds used arch.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 20 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

CachyOS community seems to have a detection script, I have not vetted this run at your own discretion.

https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/aur-compromised-400-packages-affected-20260611/31040

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 6 points 19 hours ago

You could probably find it on aur lmao

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

how many aur packages do you have? Most people i know have like AT MOST 20 or so packages from the aur. Which takes less then 2 mins to manually check against the list.

[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 1 points 2 hours ago

I try to not use any, I have 6 and 4 of those are maintained by the developer, not some rando.

One I really dislike is that CachyOS when you install their gaming software bundle...it uses the AUR version of Heroic Games Launcher instead of their own repo and CachyOS does not maintain the Heroic AUR AFAIK. I guess because AUR updates more frequently than their own repo? I think it's bad practice.

[–] Kjell@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I have much more than 20 packages in aur, most of them are dependencies from steam-native-runtime. Since steam is popular, I can understand that many have more than 20 packages.

Now when I was reading the ArchWiki I saw that it is mentioned as an alternative, so I assume I can remove steam-native-runtime and all dependencies. Perhaps the instructions have been updated or I googled for instructions and found another page. But there could be other popular packages with many dependencies.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not home for a few days so I can't check yet.

But I think I have something like 3/4 packages at the most.

But I need to compare that to a 400+ list I'm not sure I agree with you it's that easy to do rigorously.

[–] hoppolito@mander.xyz 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure I understand - if you only have 3-4 packages you can just search for them specifically in the long list?

Even if you have 50 or 100s of packages, bash makes it pretty doable

comm -12 <(sort -u file1.txt) <(sort -u file2.txt) > common.txt

Should spit out only the packages appearing in both lists (done by memory so may not be 100%)

[–] NebulaNymph@programming.dev 3 points 22 hours ago

I haven't used kate but does it not have some sort of easy search?

ex. pacman -Qm to list AUR packages; should display the 3/4 pkgs you have installed. Then just search in kate for those 3/4 results?

Alternatively cat & grep in the terminal is pretty straight forward.

That is if it's 3/4 pkgs that are from AUR, but if someone has hundreds installed that is a bigger issue on its own.

[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Damn how long is the list when you

pacman -Qm
[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu -1 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Am I missing something ?

Just because I have 3/4 package on my system doesn't mean the 400+ list of affected package gets shorter on the other side...

I'm actually pretty cautious with AUR and I only install them when there is no other options.

[–] m4ylame0wecm@lemmy.zip 8 points 22 hours ago

Especially for a small list, 3-4, that you actually need to check, what's the actual issue? Open list of 400, ctrl+f for the few names you care about, move on.

[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

I was just curious because I didnt think it was so tediuous to check against an alphabetical list on a website using ctrl+f. But thats just me. It took me less than a minute to check my 8 aur packages against the list