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is it possible to ship pre-built package?

Upstream recommends using docker, for which they have pre-built images (that might also work with podman).

PostgreSQL 18 is coming to the Arch repos. Before upgrading, backup the files for vectorchord and pgvector somewhere, and then follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PostgreSQL#Upgrading_PostgreSQL instructions. (In the next release, I'll also update the postinstall message to recommend changing postgresql.conf instead of doing ALTER SYSTEM SET.)

Also, you may find yourself updating VectorChord in this process. When doing so, remember to follow the migration steps at https://docs.immich.app/administration/postgres-standalone/#updating-vectorchord .

immich-web (localhost/immich-server:2283) used to be broken for some users of this package.

As @yparitcher also noticed, this was most likely caused by the following additions to .gitignore from f4e0aad2c495, which have since be reverted:

src/
pkg/
*.pkg.tar.zst
LICENSES/

The reason—for both this change sometimes and unpredictably breaking the build, and builds under a clean chroot still working—is unknown. I meant to investigate this on 2025-08-19 while updating the package but called it a day due to the unpredictability and long time of building. Help with figuring out why this happened would be greatly appreciated.

You may notice pacman refuse to upgrade this package, saying warning: cannot resolve "vectorchord", a dependency of "immich-server".

This is due to required manual intervention within the immich server database.

Newer versions of immich server have deprecated pgvecto.rs in favor of vectorchord.

Before updating from 1.133.1 or older, please follow steps 1 and 2 of the manual migration steps (should be the second dropdown) at https://immich.app/docs/administration/postgres-standalone/#migrating-to-vectorchord and uninstall pgvecto.rs.

Remember to remove references to "vectors.so" (which is shipped by pgvecto.rs) in shared_preload_libraries before pgvecto.rs in uninstalled. (For vectorchord to work, you'll need to add "vchord.so" to shared_preload_libraries after the upgrade as well.)

After that, you may upgrade this package. Please remember to follow steps 4 and 5 of the manual migration steps after the upgrade is finished to prevent data loss.

pnpm 11

Makes sense, fixed, thanks. Any idea which release/commit changed this?

Immich server no longer builds with the following error: [ERROR] Unknown option: 'frozen-lockfile'

EDIT: Didn't see the previous comment but I can confirm the fix works.

With pnpm 11 the build now fails with [ERROR] Unknown option: 'frozen-lockfile'.

--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -122,2 +122,2 @@ build() {
- SHARP_IGNORE_GLOBAL_LIBVIPS=true pnpm --filter immich --frozen-lockfile build
- pnpm --filter immich --frozen-lockfile --prod --no-optional deploy output/server-pruned
+ SHARP_IGNORE_GLOBAL_LIBVIPS=true pnpm --filter immich build
+ pnpm --filter immich --prod --no-optional deploy output/server-pruned

fixes it.

that is a problem with your mirrors. ask cachyos support for help

Hello, I'm getting an error when trying to install the package. Tried clearing cache and updating mirrors: ... :: Retrieving packages... mise-2026.3.17-1.1-x86_64_v3 is up to date error: failed retrieving file 'mise-2026.3.17-1.1-x86_64_v3.pkg.tar.zst' from cdn77.cachyos.org : The requested URL returned error: 404 error: failed retrieving file 'mise-2026.3.17-1.1-x86_64_v3.pkg.tar.zst.sig' from mirror.krfoss.org : The requested URL returned error: 404 warning: failed to retrieve some files error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

;_;

Checksum issues again :)

==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
 immich-2.6.3.tar.gz ... Passed
 postgres-path.patch ... Passed
 sharp.patch ... Passed
 immich-server.service ... Passed
 immich.sysusers ... Passed
 immich.tmpfiles ... Passed
 immich.conf ... Passed
 nginx.immich.conf ... Passed
 cities500.zip ... FAILED
 admin1CodesASCII.txt ... FAILED
 admin2Codes.txt ... FAILED
 ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson ... Passed
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
==> ERROR: Could not download sources.
❌ Error: makechrootpkg failed for 'immich'.

I don't think jellyfin-ffmpeg -> chromaprint -> ffmpeg is any sort of problem. jellyfin-ffmpeg is well-isolated from ffmpeg. (FWIW It's that way because jellyfin-ffmpeg compiles libavformat with chromaprint features, and chromaprint depends on libavcodec.)

As the PKGBUILD references (by date of the comment), reasons for using jellyfin-ffmpeg are explained at https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/immich?O=230#comment-996238 .

I'm unsure immich-machine-learning -> immich-server is required

hmm, for that reason it should be listed as only an optional dependency, which is what i see on my end

Discovered a dependency mess:

immich-server -> jellyfin-ffmpeg -> chromaprint -> ffmpeg
immich-machine-learning -> immich-server -> ...
immich-machine-learning -> python-opencv -> opencv -> ffmpeg

Maybe it's worth removing jellyfin-ffmpeg since ffmpeg is installed anyway? There is ffmpeg-headless, which I use for this dependency. Also, I'm unsure immich-machine-learning -> immich-server is required. In theory, immich-machine-learning can be installed on a different machine.