Hi Steven,
I use this version, unaltered:
$ par version
par 1.53.0
$ par version
1.52-i18n.4
That ‘i18n’ smells given the nature of the other patch I found earlier.
$ pacman -Qi par
Name : par
Version : 1.52-8
Description : Paragraph reformatter
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://www.nicemice.net/par/
Assuming Manjaro is just picking this up from Arch Linux,
I think this is the shell script which builds the package.
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=par
In particular,
source=('http://www.nicemice.net/par/Par152.tar.gz'
'http://sysmic.org/dl/par/par-1.52-i18n.4.patch')
Attempting to retrieve the patch times out for me on the French IPv4
address.
I didn't find it anywhere else. I did find NixOS also pulls it in.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/text/par/default.nix
patches = [
# A patch by Jérôme Pouiller that adds support for multibyte
# charsets (like UTF-8), plus Debian packaging.
(fetchpatch {
url = "http://sysmic.org/dl/par/par-1.52-i18n.4.patch";;
sha256 = "0alw44lf511jmr38jnh4j0mpp7vclgy0grkxzqf7q158vzdb6g23";
})
];
Can you try searching par again, this time with
file /usr/bin/par
env LC_ALL=C egrep -boa 'seems not configured' /usr/bin/par
--
Cheers, Ralph.