Help me finding alternatives to those aur pckges

Issues & Assistance
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So with the recent events with the AUR and since im not a power user i wont be abble to tell if anything is sketchy : i want to simply avoid the AUR .

here are the aur pckg i use right now :

fancontrol-gui 0.8-3

without this : my cpu fan and pc case fan spins way too fast and are too loud. This one didnt recieved any update in a year now. motherboard : h97n-wifi

There is a new app named fancontrol on flathub, but its on beta, and not that ez to use.

hplip-plugin 3.26.4-1
icu76 76.1-1

used to print hp laserjet m110w, i didnt find any alternatives to those ones.

kwin-effect-rounded-corners-git 0.8.7.r17.gb9423f7-1
kwin-effects-forceblur 1.5.0-1

ive seen that in the giuthub there is a way to install them manually. But i dont know how i’ll keep them up to date if i do so.. ?

millennium 3.2.1_beta.1-1
steam skin, i might just remove this one.

thank you .

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if you’re goals was to avoid AUR entirely,
well, start learning build app from source (github / gitlab) then, that’s the only way (because not every developer provide appimage / arch package (tar.zst, so you can just use pacman -U)
and ofc, debugging the package dependency incase the README.md didn’t explicitly said it

and good luck ~

i’ve been using this

installing millenium should be straightforward extract if i remember correctly

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Fan control - I’m just about to start this myself. My notes so far might be useful:

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fan_speed_control
- https://linuxvox.com/blog/control-fan-speed-linux/
- https://gitlab.com/coolercontrol/coolercontrol
- https://github.com/markusressel/fan2go
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Okay, first - the reality check. You’re on an Arch based distribution - the main attraction for me initially was that the AUR brought half the software I’d ever want.

Nothing wrong with Fedora… or Nobara, or Bazzite…

If packages aren’t available in repositories, then you would need to learn to build them from source.

Instructions:

  • Arch - learn to read PKGBUILDS and use AUR
  • Debian based - there’s an official Cloudsmith repository.
  • Fedora - there’s a repo in Copr
  • Source:

Well Source is where most control lies…

Installing from source on Arch Linux requires additional steps that the official AUR source packages already handle for you.

So Clone it:

git clone https://gitlab.com/coolercontrol/coolercontrol.git

Then Build and Install it:

cd coolercontrol
make install-source -j"$(nproc)"

Then start the daemon:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now coolercontrold

However, my impression is that you didn’t even have the skills to locate (by a simple web search) the installation method for this package… so let’s hope the install goes sweetly, or you’re stuffed.

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Note, if you’re going to build stuff from source, it’s really not especially different from reading a clean PKGBUILD. This one is pretty simplfor example

There’s a middle road of avoiding AUR packages that do more complex stuff in their builds, for example.

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But let’s not forget common sense…

:package: Name: coolercontrold

Summary

:globe_with_meridians: Upstream URL: CoolerControl / CoolerControl · GitLab
:+1: Votes: 9
:chart_increasing: Popularity: 1.35
:puzzle_piece: Version: 4.3.1-1
:floppy_disk: Size: 0 B
:memo: Description: A program to monitor and control your cooling devices. This package contains the CoolerControl service daemon.
:date: First Submitted: 2024-09-07 19:30:55 (UTC)
:three_o_clock: Last Updated: 2026-05-23 11:22:33 (UTC)

:link: Link: AUR (en) - coolercontrold

Just scanning the final link is often enough to put your mind at rest… codifryed looks legit.

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They can be installed from Plasma-System-Settings in Windows management section or from KDE-Store (Pling)

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coolercontronl is on the cachyos repos, i went this way.

We are all different and thats different reasons that brings me to cachyos, and i dont regret it at all. ( i wanted to squeeze the maximum of juice from my potato pc and have brand new features asap, cachyos suits me the best)

youre impressions are wrong

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thanks, sadly i didnt find those two .

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yeah it is the time to learn installing from source, ill try to find some documentation about it in general first then i’ll check the git readme from those few aur pckge i have.

coolercontrol is really cool ! Thanks