Technology

It took Arch ~19 years just to get archinstall.

Something tells me there won't be a script.

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

Here's a script:

https://gist.github.com/Kidev/59bf9f5fb53ab5eee99f19a6a2fc3992

You could probably find it on aur lmao

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

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.

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.

comm -1 -2 <(pacman -Qqm | sort) <(curl -s https://md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA | sort)

Damn how long is the list when you ``` pacman -Qm