Yay failed, need to clean up and try again, learning new things

[addohm]

In my base arch install, I have no issues with this package
yay -S unigine-superposition

AUR (en) - unigine-superposition

:: Resolving dependencies...
:: Calculating conflicts...
:: Calculating inner conflicts...

Aur (1)                    Old Version  New Version    Make Only
aur/unigine-superposition               1.1-6          No

:: Proceed to review? [Y/n]: Y

:: Downloading PKGBUILDs...
PKGBUILDs up to date
nothing new to review
fetching devel info...
==> Making package: unigine-superposition 1.1-6 (2025年06月12日 星期四 07时33分13秒)
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Found Unigine_Superposition-1.1.run
-> Found Superposition.desktop
==> Validating source files with b2sums...
Unigine_Superposition-1.1.run ... FAILED
Superposition.desktop ... Passed
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
error: failed to download sources for 'unigine-superposition-1.1-6':
error: packages failed to build: unigine-superposition-1.1-6

But in garuda, which admittedly I am very new to, I’m learning some new things. It seems yay is aliased to something called paru somehow? Which also seems tied to pacman somehow.

Can someone help me understand a few things? Please clear up whats going on above? I’ve since learned what paru is but can someone also please tell me why I can’t install the aforementioned package, and also how to clean up the failed files to re-download and re-attempt.

edit< oh also, why doesn’t the package show up in octopi? Is octopi just for pacman packages and not the AUR?

[dalto]

yay is a wrapper for pacman. It builds the package from the AUR and then uses pacman to install it.

paru is a similar tool to yay. You probably have an alias from yay to paru.

@addohm

ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!

This error is probably not caused by yay or paru. It is generally an issue with the AUR package itself.

The reason it worked on Arch and failed on Garuda is probably just a difference in timing between when you installed the packages or the file was corrupted during the download.

You can remove the downloaded files from ~/.cache/paru/clone/unigine-superposition

[magnux]

Thanks for the explanation, dalto. I had the same problem on Garuda and wasn’t sure why it failed. Deleting the folder at ~/.cache/paru/clone/unigine-superposition and trying again makes sense now.

Also, good to know Octopi doesn’t show AUR packages by default. I’ll just use the terminal for AUR installs. Thanks again!

[addohm]

Yes, my failure was in the fact that I was looking for the yay cache folder not knowing tht things were actually ending up in the par cache folder. In my opinion the alias should be removed all together. I get that its to bridge the crossover gap but it just adds unnecessary confusion.

Now, can someone please explain why things that I know for a fact are in the AUR don’t show up in Octopi? Yes, I am updated. Heres just one example:

[gampel]

Pls click on the green button “alien”…then you see the aur packages if you insert a package name.

And take a look in the settings from octopi → default is “all”

[SGS]

Last but not least, as already mentioned 100 times in the forum, do not use a GUI to install packages, only to search for them.

A nice graphical interface, in terminal, has pacseek