On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:56:47 -0500 Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The package installs and is not functional. Why it's not functional is > the package is missing .config/vlc/vlcrc so vlc has no clue how to do > anything on a linux system. Assuming you're talking in your home dir, the program has to do this itself at runtime. Pacman cannot do this for you. > For whatever reason I couldn't get vlc-nox to install on > this system error exit 4 manual intervention is needed. Was this manual > intervention documented on arch-announce? If you didn't confuse your AUR helper for pacman, you'd realize that that error wasn't from pacman and has nothing to do with the repos or arch-announce.