Repositories & Mirrors

Out of the box, AcreetionOS uses one primary source plus your local cache.

The default setup

/etc/pacman.conf defines the repositories; the shipped configuration activates:

[core]
Server = https://iso.acreetionos.org/repo-main/$arch

[personal]
Server = https://iso.acreetionos.org/personal

  • core/repo-main — the tested set: kernel, desktop, apps, everything the ISO ships.

  • personal — maintainer extras.

Inspect yours any time:

grep -A2 '^\[' /etc/pacman.conf
pacman-conf                 # parsed view of effective config

Do NOT add stock Arch repos

Re-enabling official Arch [core]/[extra] servers mixes two package sets signed under different keys. This breaks the AcreetionOS keyring and can brick updates ("unable to lock database", signature unknown trust errors). If you already did this, restore the original /etc/pacman.conf, then run sudo pacman -Syyu.

Need something missing from repo-main? The right order is:

  1. Check the AUR.

  2. Ask the maintainers to add it (Contributing).

  3. Only as a last resort: Flatpak.

Keys & keyring

The AcreetionOS keyring ships pre-trusted and updates through normal upgrades. After very long offline periods:

sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys   # or simply:
sudo pacman -Syy acreetion-keyring 2>/dev/null || sudo pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring
sudo pacman -Syyu

Download speed

The single-server design keeps things consistent; if iso.acreetionos.org feels slow, check status at https://acreetionos.org/status.html before assuming your connection.