[Bug 🐞]: change pacman package dependency about kuro

[Reverier-Xu]

The electron version 19 is too high even for Arch Linux ...

it is recommended that we just publish a PKGBUILD file on aur.archlinux.org instead of build a binary package. Users could install kuro from paru/yay or other AUR package helpers. PKGBUILD is a simple pack script, we can pack the appimage as a pacman package in PKGBUILD, that solves most problems.

the appimage PKGBUILD file may looks like this:

# Maintainer: ???
pkgname=kuro-appimage
pkgver=8.1.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="An elegant Microsoft ToDo desktop client for Linux (a fork of Ao)"
arch=("x86_64")
url="https://github.com/davidsmorais/kuro"
license=("unknown")
_pkgname="Kuro-${pkgver}.AppImage"
noextract=(${_pkgname})
options=("!strip")
provides=("kuro")
optdepends=()
source=("https://github.com/davidsmorais/kuro/releases/download/v${pkgver}/${_pkgname}")
sha512sums=("755bd884a8bd44ca383205fe9c7836a42f6e5cfce9289d0b5dbaff924404773d02110b9da4332c0556ab1924f0e5a1e1ea4a2a2f142e48e86528ebb626814038")

_installdir=/opt/appimages

prepare() {
    cd ${srcdir}
    chmod a+x ${_pkgname}
    ${srcdir}/${_pkgname} --appimage-extract >/dev/null
    sed -i "s+AppRun+env DESKTOPINTEGRATION=no ${_installdir}/Kuro.AppImage+" "squashfs-root/kuro.desktop"
    sed -i "s+Icon=kuro+Icon=kuro-appimage+" "squashfs-root/kuro.desktop"
}

package() {
    install -Dm755 ${_pkgname} "${pkgdir}/${_installdir}/Kuro.AppImage"
    install -Dm644 "squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024/apps/kuro.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024/apps/kuro-appimage.png"
    install -Dm644 "squashfs-root/kuro.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/kuro-appimage.desktop"
}

so that you can just publish appimage then update the PKGBUILD, all things will be done.

[Reverier-Xu]

Ahh...it seems that electron 19 has broken this app...
the AppImage does not work too...

[Reverier-Xu]

I'm sorry, this is running fine in my machine, even after resetting the settings.

Can you please try and do a rm -rf ~/.config/Kuro ?

ohh, it seems ok, thank you.

[davidsmorais]

Hey @Reverier-Xu 👋

I've recently updated electron and electron-builder to their latest version on our most recent release. Can you please check if this dependency is still being used ?

If it is, then I guess this dependency comes from one of those packages and there's nothing I can really do about it 😢

[Reverier-Xu]

Hi, the newest release solved the dependency problem but ... it seems not working as well.

Could you update the pacman's PKGBUILD file to this repository? maybe i can help.

[davidsmorais]

@Reverier-Xu , thanks for the tips & feedback 👍
there's already an open issue for AUR package (#22). I don't have any machines running any Arch based distros, so would be great if you could help 👍
I'm also releasing a new version with electron 18.3.4 as 19.0.5 was released yesterday 😓

EDIT: Please give it a go with version 8.1.3

[Reverier-Xu]

Hi, version 8.1.3 still not works (both pacman and appimage).

i think the electron is not necessary to upgrade to the newest version. AppImage will pack all dependencies so that we don't need to worry about it on any linux distros.

if you want to upgrade electron, there is a lot work to do.

[davidsmorais]

I'm sorry, this is running fine in my machine, even after resetting the settings.

Can you please try and do a rm -rf ~/.config/Kuro ?