A fully free, simple, and lightweight operating system

You've reached the website of Parabola GNU/Linux-libre. The Parabola project is a community-driven, "labour-of-love" effort to maintain a 100% free (as in: freedom) operating system distribution that is lean, clean, and hackable.

Based on the Arch distribution, Parabola is a complete, user-friendly operating system, suitable for general "everyday" use, while retaining Arch's "power-user" charm. Parabola adheres to the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines (FSDG); which requires source code for every part of the system to be freely available, modifyable, and re-distributable. All Parabola packages are built from source, in clean chroots, and with networking disabled, in order to replace any software and artworks in the standard Arch system which fall outside the GNU guidelines. LiveISOs, installers, and packages are provided for the armv7h, i686, and x86_64 CPU architectures.

Our community is friendly and helpful. Feel free to hop on the IRC channel, join the web forum, or subscribe to the mailing lists, to get your feet wet. Once you are ready to begin your adventures through Fosstopia, the wiki will guide you well toward learning to install and use Parabola comfortably and confidently.

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[From Arch]: budgie-desktop >= 10.7.2-6 update requires manual intervention

2023-08-11

When upgrading from budgie-desktop 10.7.2-5 to 10.7.2-6, the package mutter43 must be replaced with magpie-wm, which currently depends on mutter. As mutter43 conflicts with mutter, manual intervention is required to complete the upgrade.

First remove mutter43, then immediately perform the upgrade. Do not relog or reboot between these steps.

pacman -Rdd mutter43

pacman -Syu

OpenBLAS >= 0.3.23-2 update requires manual intervention

2023-06-19

From Arch:

The openblas package prior to version 0.3.23-2 doesn't ship optimized LAPACK routine and CBLAS/LAPACKE interfaces for compatibility. This decision has been reverted now, and the ability to choose a different default system BLAS/LAPACK implementation while keeping openblas installed is now provided to allow future co-installation of BLIS, ATLAS, etc.

The default BLAS implementation will be used for most packages like NumPy or R. Please install "blas-openblas" and "blas64-openblas" to make OpenBLAS the default BLAS implementation, just like the old behavior.

Unfortunately you will get errors on updating if you currently have OpenBLAS installed as ...

[From Arch] Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention

2023-02-12

The base-devel package group has recently been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
People that had the base-devel package group installed (meaning people that installed base-devel before February 2nd) have to explicitly re-install it to get the new base-devel package installed on their system:

pacman -Syu base-devel

systemd encrypted boot may be broken by upgrade to openssl v3 (systemd-cryptsetup), and various libcrypto.so.1.1 errors - suggest to postpone upgrading

2022-11-06

until https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/76440 is resolved

FS#76440 : systemd-cryptsetup still refers to libcrypto.so.1.1 after upgrading to openssl3

see: https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/3368

UPDATE 2022-11-08: fixed in cryptsetup 2.5.0-4

[From Arch] Removing python2 from the repositories

2022-09-25

Python 2 went end of life January 2020. Since then Arch has been actively cutting down the number of projects depending on python2 in their repositories, and they have finally been able to drop it from our distribution, making it disappear from Parabola too. If you still have python2 installed on your system consider removing it and any python2 package.

If you still require the python2 package you can keep it around, but please be aware that there will be no security updates.

Older News

2022-08-30
Grub bootloader upgrade and configuration incompatibilities
2022-07-20
elogind requires manual intervention
2022-07-19
[nonsystemd] NetworkManager, dbus and display managers require manual intervention
2022-07-14
[From Arch]: wxgtk2 may require manual intervention
2021-08-12
TalkingParabola merged in main ISO and installation medium with installer
2021-07-07
[From Arch] Sorting out old password hashes
2020-11-08
[From Arch 32] plasma-workspace needs manual intervention
2020-10-24
[From Arch] libtraceevent>=5.9-1 update requires manual intervention
2020-10-01
[From Arch] ghostpcl>=9.53.2-2 and ghostxps>=9.53.2-2 updates require manual intervention
2020-08-31
manual intervention required for some non-systemd users

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usd 23.11-15 x86_64
dotnet-core-7.0 7.0.17.sdk117-1 x86_64
pandoc-cli 0.1.1.1-79 x86_64
ppsspp 1.17.1-1 x86_64
nawk 20240311-2 x86_64
kjournald 24.02.0-2 x86_64
corectrl 1.4.0-2 x86_64
python-jupyter-events 0.10.0-1 x86_64
tk 8.6.14-2 x86_64
python-pycrdt 0.8.15-1 x86_64
python-pytest-bdd i686/x86_64
http-parser 2.9.4-2 x86_64
rust-analyzer 20240318-1 x86_64
python-pyrate-limiter 3.6.0-1 x86_64
go-yq 4.42.1-2 x86_64

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