omarchy-pkgs-aarch64

Unofficial aarch64 builds of Omarchy's own packages, for Apple Silicon Macs running Asahi Linux and the omarchy-mac fork.

Why this exists

Omarchy's package repo at pkgs.omarchy.org publishes x86_64 only — edge/aarch64 and stable/aarch64 both return 404. So on ARM, every package that lives in Omarchy's own repo is simply unavailable, which leaves keybindings pointing at binaries that can't be installed. SUPER + CTRL + Q (calculator) and SUPER + SHIFT + W (writer) are the visible casualties.

Nothing is patched here. Sources are unmodified; only the build architecture changes. Packages come from four places:

• Omarchy's own repo (omacom-io/omarchy-pkgs), built with that repo's tooling, which already supports ARM: ./bin/build --arch aarch64 --package omacalc omacut omawrite
• The AUR, built with makepkg from the published PKGBUILD.
• any-architecture packages, which need no rebuild at all — the AUR artifact is reused as-is.
• In-tree PKGBUILDs (pkgbuilds/, source: local in packages.json), for software that exists nowhere in a form an aarch64 build can use. Currently only obs-studio: absent from Arch Linux ARM entirely, and every AUR pkgbase hardcodes obsproject's prebuilt CEF browser bundle, which is published for x86_64 only. Ours builds upstream's unmodified release sources with ENABLE_BROWSER=OFF — no browser source/dock, everything else enabled.

Packages

Package	Version	Provides
aether	4.29.8-1	Wallpaper-driven desktop theming
brave-origin-bin	1:1.94.117-1	Minimalist browser from the Brave team
cliamp	1.63.2-1	Retro terminal music player
dotnet-host-bin	10.0.11.sdk400-1	.NET CLI driver
dotnet-runtime-2.1	2.1.30.sdk818-1	.NET Core 2.1 runtime
dotnet-sdk-2.1	2.1.30.sdk818-1	.NET Core 2.1 SDK
herdr	0.8.2-1	Terminal workspace manager for AI coding agents
hypa-ttfx-bin	0.3.1-1	Hypa terminal text effects
hyprland-preview-share-picker-git	0.2.1.r16.g0ef9b30-1	Share picker with window/monitor previews
localsend	1.18.2-1	Cross-platform AirDrop alternative
mise-bin	2026.8.14-4	Dev tools, env vars, task runner
obs-studio	32.2.2-1	Video recording and live streaming (no browser source)
obsidian-appimage	1.12.7-1	Markdown knowledge base (AppImage)
omacalc	0.2.2-1	Calculator — bound to SUPER + CTRL + Q
omacut	0.4.0-1	Video length trimmer
omarchy-emacs	1.10.1-1	Emacs theme/font syncing for Omarchy
omarchy-webapp-theme	0.3.6-1	Theme Slack, Discord, GitHub et al. to match Omarchy
omawrite	0.5.0-1	Markdown writing app — bound to SUPER + SHIFT + W
openai-codex-desktop	26.820.80927-1	ChatGPT desktop app with Codex
tensaku	0.28.0-1	Screenshot annotation for Wayland
ttf-ia-writer	20181225-1	iA Writer font subset
ttfx	0.3.2-1	Terminal text effects, static binary
tzupdate	3.1.0-1	Set timezone from IP geolocation
ufw-docker	251123-1	Fix the Docker/UFW security flaw
xdg-terminal-exec	0.14.3-1	Launch desktop apps with Terminal=true
yaru-icon-theme	26.04.5.1ubuntu-1	Yaru default Ubuntu icon theme
yay	13.0.1-1	Pacman wrapper and AUR helper

Usage

Add to /etc/pacman.conf:

[omarchy-aarch64]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = https://github.com/omarchy-mac/omarchy-pkgs-aarch64/releases/download/edge

Then:

sudo pacman -Sy
sudo pacman -S omacalc omawrite omacut   # or any package from the table

Assets live on a single rolling edge tag and are replaced in place, so the Server URL never changes.

Caveats

• Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Omarchy or 37signals. Upstream owes you nothing for these builds; report packaging bugs here, not to them.
• Unsigned. Hence SigLevel = Optional TrustAll, which is what Omarchy's own pacman.conf uses for its repo. If you'd rather not trust unsigned packages, build them yourself: the Omarchy ones with the command below, the AUR ones with makepkg from their PKGBUILD.
• Partly automated. A scheduled workflow refreshes the architecture-independent packages and the prebuilt-ARM repacks. The packages that compile from source are still rebuilt by hand and can drift behind upstream — see Automation for which is which.

Automation

.github/workflows/update-packages.yml runs every six hours. It compares each package's upstream version against the version in the published db and rebuilds only what moved, so a typical run does nothing. It never publishes a version older than the one already in the repo, which is what would make pacman -Syu offer you a downgrade.

The packages differ only in where they can be built:

Group	Count	Automated
any — arch=('any'), architecture-independent	6	yes
repack — ships a vendor-prebuilt ARM binary	9	yes
compile — built from source	12	yes

Two packages in the repo are deliberately not automated, and say so in packages.json rather than being silently absent. Both are built from omarchy-mac and carry Apple Silicon patches that rebuilding from upstream's PKGBUILD would discard.

omarchy drops the limine bootloader dependencies, which mean nothing on a Mac. omarchy-settings goes further: it re-inserts the asahi mkinitcpio hook that stages Apple Silicon firmware, without which the next mkinitcpio run produces an initramfs that cannot drive the display or Wi-Fi and the boot wedges — it also drops the btrfs-overlayfs hook that needs limine-snapper-sync, sets trackpad defaults, and adds around 19 files including an asahi-alarm pacman mirrorlist. Rebuild both by hand from the fork; do not remove their skip.

herdr currently fails to build anywhere: its PKGBUILD pins zig0.15, which Arch dropped from [extra] on the move to zig 0.16. It is left to fail visibly rather than carrying a from-source Zig toolchain build, and fail-fast: false stops it blocking anything else.

hyprland-preview-share-picker-git is a VCS package whose AUR pkgver is stale by construction, so a version diff can never trigger it. It rebuilds on a 7-day timer measured from %BUILDDATE% in the published db.

packages.json records which group each package belongs to and where its PKGBUILD comes from — the AUR for most, omacom-io/omarchy-pkgs for the five that aren't in the AUR, and this repo's own pkgbuilds/ for obs-studio. The source is per-package on purpose: for omarchy-emacs the AUR leads Omarchy's own repo, so switching it would be a downgrade.

Builds run on ubuntu-24.04-arm, which is free for public repos; detection and publishing run on x86, since neither vercmp nor repo-add cares about the target architecture.

Every build needs a real aarch64 environment. Forcing CARCH=aarch64 inside an x86 container looks like it ought to work for the repacks — they only unpack a binary someone else built — but several of those PKGBUILDs execute the ARM binary while packaging it. mise-bin runs mise completion three times to generate its shell completions. Emulating aarch64 on an x86 runner does work, but a free native ARM runner makes it pointless.

Publishing is ordered so the repo is never internally inconsistent: package assets upload first, then the four db files with .db last, and only then are superseded package assets deleted. A package whose version carries an epoch is renamed before repo-add sees it, because a GitHub release asset cannot contain a : — the db records 1:1.93.138-1 as the version but brave-origin-bin-1.1.93.138-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz as the filename.

Running it by hand:

gh workflow run update-packages.yml                        # everything in scope
gh workflow run update-packages.yml -f packages=mise-bin   # one package
gh workflow run update-packages.yml -f dry_run=true        # build, verify, publish nothing

scripts/self-test.sh covers the parts that would fail quietly rather than loudly — epoch filename handling, reading a package's name from its .PKGINFO, the ELF audit and its allowances, and repo db parsing. It is offline, takes a couple of seconds, and runs on every push and pull request. A failed scheduled run opens an issue rather than only turning a run red.

The scripts under scripts/ are plain bash and run outside CI too. scripts/smoke-test.sh is the useful one on its own: it syncs the published repo the way pacman does and checks that every package the db advertises is actually fetchable.

Building these yourself

Omarchy's own packages:

git clone https://github.com/omacom-io/omarchy-pkgs
cd omarchy-pkgs
./bin/build --arch aarch64 --package omacalc omacut omawrite

Requires Docker. On an x86_64 host it sets up QEMU automatically; on ARM it builds natively. Each of these takes well under a minute.

Everything else comes from the AUR — clone the package and run makepkg. Packages marked arch=('any') need no rebuild at all; the AUR artifact works on ARM unchanged.