Unity 7.6 is now available for Arch Linux! I’ve ported all of the Unity packages in the Ubuntu repositories, including unity-control-center, unity-settings-daemon, compiz with the Ubuntu patches, nux, unity-greeter and unity-tweak-tool among others.

Installing Unity on Arch Linux

1. Add the repository key to the pacman keyring:

curl https://unity.ruds.io/repo.key | sudo pacman-key --add -
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 3FB6809130A5DB7F

2. Insert the following lines right above [community] in /etc/pacman.conf:

[arch-unity]
SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional
Server = https://unity.ruds.io/arch-unity

3. Install Unity (no helper needs to be installed):

sudo sh -c "pacman -Syyu; pacman -S unity-meta"

4. Switch to LightDM as the default display manager after disabling the current display manager:

sudo systemctl enable --now lightdm

5. Voila! You should now see Unity in the session list, and be able to log into it.

Notes

• Some packages, such as appmenu-gtk-module are known to cause some apps to break under Unity.

Contributing

You can help contribute to the packaging at https://gitlab.com/Unity-for-Arch.

Credits: This port is based on an earlier effort, Unity-for-Arch by chenxiaolong (maintained from 2011-2016). I would also like to thank 3v1n0, mitya57 and c4pp4 for their help in this journey.