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is it possible to ship pre-built package?

Upstream recommends using docker, for which they have pre-built images (that might also work with podman).

PostgreSQL 18 is coming to the Arch repos. Before upgrading, backup the files for vectorchord and pgvector somewhere, and then follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PostgreSQL#Upgrading_PostgreSQL instructions. (In the next release, I'll also update the postinstall message to recommend changing postgresql.conf instead of doing ALTER SYSTEM SET.)

Also, you may find yourself updating VectorChord in this process. When doing so, remember to follow the migration steps at https://docs.immich.app/administration/postgres-standalone/#updating-vectorchord .

immich-web (localhost/immich-server:2283) used to be broken for some users of this package.

As @yparitcher also noticed, this was most likely caused by the following additions to .gitignore from f4e0aad2c495, which have since be reverted:

src/
pkg/
*.pkg.tar.zst
LICENSES/

The reason—for both this change sometimes and unpredictably breaking the build, and builds under a clean chroot still working—is unknown. I meant to investigate this on 2025-08-19 while updating the package but called it a day due to the unpredictability and long time of building. Help with figuring out why this happened would be greatly appreciated.

You may notice pacman refuse to upgrade this package, saying warning: cannot resolve "vectorchord", a dependency of "immich-server".

This is due to required manual intervention within the immich server database.

Newer versions of immich server have deprecated pgvecto.rs in favor of vectorchord.

Before updating from 1.133.1 or older, please follow steps 1 and 2 of the manual migration steps (should be the second dropdown) at https://immich.app/docs/administration/postgres-standalone/#migrating-to-vectorchord and uninstall pgvecto.rs.

Remember to remove references to "vectors.so" (which is shipped by pgvecto.rs) in shared_preload_libraries before pgvecto.rs in uninstalled. (For vectorchord to work, you'll need to add "vchord.so" to shared_preload_libraries after the upgrade as well.)

After that, you may upgrade this package. Please remember to follow steps 4 and 5 of the manual migration steps after the upgrade is finished to prevent data loss.

@dp20eic: did you add the immich domain names to the /etc/hosts file as localhosts? They are hard coded in immich thus they are required. See https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1657

this package no longer contains the service immich-machine-learning, due to growing difficulties with the arch python packages. Luckily immich-machine-learning can be now (as of immich 1.62) accessed via network, allowing it (and typesense) to be installed via docker and utilized via network.

Hi, I tried to get immich running in an LXC container under Proxmox, the installation with all dependencies was no problem so far, on the one hand two directories were missing, which I created later, but the services still don't start.

This is what I see at journal

Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: Started immich server.
Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich (node)[115275]: immich-server.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/immich/upload: No such file or directory
Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich (node)[115275]: immich-server.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning node: No such file or directory
Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE
Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Jun 07 18:32:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: Stopped immich server.

After create missing Directory

Jun 07 18:33:43 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jun 07 18:33:43 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Jun 07 18:33:43 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Jun 07 18:33:43 arch-immich systemd[1]: Stopped immich server.
Jun 07 18:33:43 arch-immich systemd[1]: Started immich server.
Jun 07 18:33:45 arch-immich sudo[115407]:  dp20eic : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/dp20eic ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl status immich-server.service
Jun 07 18:33:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jun 07 18:33:45 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Jun 07 18:33:46 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Jun 07 18:33:46 arch-immich systemd[1]: Stopped immich server.
Jun 07 18:33:46 arch-immich systemd[1]: Started immich server.
Jun 07 18:33:47 arch-immich sudo[115433]:  dp20eic : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/dp20eic ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/systemctl status immich-server.service
Jun 07 18:33:48 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jun 07 18:33:48 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-server.service: Failed with result 'signal'

Same with immich-microservice.service

Jun 07 18:37:07 arch-immich (node)[116212]: immich-microservices.service: Failed to set up mount namespacing: /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/immich/app/server/.reverse-geocoding-dump: No such file or directory
Jun 07 18:37:07 arch-immich (node)[116212]: immich-microservices.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning node: No such file or directory
Jun 07 18:37:07 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE
Jun 07 18:37:07 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 07 18:37:07 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.

After create directory

Jun 07 18:38:18 arch-immich systemd[1]: Started immich microservices.
Jun 07 18:38:20 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jun 07 18:38:20 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Jun 07 18:38:21 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Jun 07 18:38:21 arch-immich systemd[1]: Stopped immich microservices.
Jun 07 18:38:21 arch-immich systemd[1]: Started immich microservices.
Jun 07 18:38:23 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jun 07 18:38:23 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Jun 07 18:38:23 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Jun 07 18:38:23 arch-immich systemd[1]: Stopped immich microservices.
Jun 07 18:38:23 arch-immich systemd[1]: Started immich microservices.
Jun 07 18:38:26 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=4/ILL
Jun 07 18:38:26 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Jun 07 18:38:26 arch-immich systemd[1]: immich-microservices.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Jun 07 18:38:26 arch-immich systemd[1]: Stopped immich microservices.

Redis and postgresql are up and running, immich-web.service started but without running server :(

What is the meaning of status=4/ILL?

With kind regards Bernd

P.S.: the same with immich V1.60.0

there currently is not typesense package for archlinux. if you want to run typesense in a container you can use immich with typesense until there is a package available.

pkgrel should be set to 1.