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{{warning|Use the AUR at your own risk! Support will not be provided by the Manjaro team for any issues that may arise relating to software installations from the AUR. }}

{{warning|Use the AUR at your own risk! Support will not be provided by the Manjaro team for any issues that may arise relating to software installations from the AUR. }}

Although Manjaro is one-hundred percent Arch Linux compatible —being based on Arch Linux itself— it is not possible to access their official repositories for use in Manjaro. Instead, Manjaro uses its own repositories in order to ensure that any software packages that are accessible, such as system updates and applications, have been fully tested and are stable before release.

Although Manjaro is one-hundred percent Arch Linux compatible —being based on Arch Linux itself— it is not possible to access their official repositories for use in Manjaro. Instead, Manjaro uses its own repositories in order to ensure that any software packages that are accessible, such as system updates and applications, have been fully tested and are stable before release.

* Improperly configured packages which download unnecessary dependencies, or do not download necessary dependencies, or both.

* Improperly configured packages which download unnecessary dependencies, or do not download necessary dependencies, or both.

* Malicious packages (although extremely rare) .

* Malicious packages (although extremely rare) .

As such, although much of the software packages provided by the AUR should work, do not expect the installation process to always be quite as straight-forward as when you are using the official Manjaro repositories. On occasion, it may be necessary to manually identify and install dependencies yourself (such as, after an aborted installation attempt). Again, there is no guarantee that any installed software will work properly, if at all.

As such, although much of the software packages provided by the AUR should work, do not expect the installation process to always be quite as straight-forward as when you are using the official Manjaro repositories. On occasion, it may be necessary to manually identify and install dependencies yourself (such as, after an aborted installation attempt). Again, there is no guarantee that any installed software will work properly, if at all.