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Some time in the last weeks, polymake disappeared from the Arch Linux package repositories. The corresponding webpage is https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/polymake/
What is the recommended workaround for that? Are there plans to bring polymake back to the Arch repos?

Thanks!

The most probable reason is the incompatibility with the new perl version 5.38. This incompatibility turned out to be of such a fundamental nature that we decided to "divorce" polymake from perl altogether. This is, however, a large scale refactoring which takes substantial time. Until it's finished, a workaround is to install an older perl <= 5.36 parallel to the system one and then compile polymake from the sources. You might also want to try the docker image available at dockerhub.

The most probable reason is the incompatibility with the new perl version 5.38. This incompatibility turned out to be of such a fundamental nature that we decided to "divorce" polymake from perl altogether. This is, however, a large scale refactoring which takes substantial time. Until it's finished, a workaround is to install an older perl <= 5.36 parallel to the system one and then compile polymake from the sources. You might also want to try the docker image available at dockerhub.

polymake 4.11 made it back to the Arch repos.