Getting .deb on ArchLinux

[dderg]

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[bengotow]

Hi there—thanks for filing an issue. Can you clarify the problem you're running into? I'm not familiar with ArchLinux, but we do provide a .deb version of the installer.

[dderg]

ArchLinux cannot use .deb packages, arch uses AUR (arch user repository) for this kind of purposes

[bengotow]

Ahh gotcha—that makes sense. Is it possible to build AUR packages on non-ArchLinux machines? If we could get the packaging working on our existing linux CI server, I think it'd be straightforward to maintain.

If you want to give it a shot and submit a pull request, it might not be too hard to adapt the https://github.com/nylas/N1/blob/master/script/mkrpm to create a "mkaur" script we can run!

[dderg]

I've never created packages before. Here's the article I've found https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_packages

[pebs74]

.deb packages can be installed with a workaround using either "debtap" (AUR) or "alien_package_converter" (AUR), although some problems with other .deb package dependencies occur. Even so, I've been able to install and run N1 correctly in Arch.

[dderg]

I've installed from source already too

[shibumi]

@prog666 I am currently working on a PKGBUILD for N1. I will upload it to the AUR soon.

[PlugaruT]

Will be awesome to have this very very nice app available on Arch!

[shibumi]

It would be awesome if someone of the Nylas people could send me an invitation code for testing purposes:

[email protected]

[oblitum]

@shibumi please update this thread when you do it? I'm currently waiting for a pacman package to show up, I'm not willing to build from sources at the moment.

[stouf]

@oblitum Not sure "pacman" is what you wanted to type, but don't expect a N1 package to land on the official repositories anytime soon (well, who knows but...). You probably wanna have a look at AUR for the moment ;-)
And talking of which, it apparently landed yesterday on AUR :)
==> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/n1/
@shibumi Is that you?

I'll try it as soon as I get my hands on a compuer (in a few hours)

[shibumi]

@stouf nope, my package is named n1-git. seems like the other maintainer is using the .deb package. It would be nice if somebody could check that package. I get X.org errors while executing it (mentioned here: #183)

EDIT: it's very unlikely that there will be a pacman package because you need an invite code for executing the software and such stuff..

[oblitum]

@shibumi going to try it now thanks. (By the way I meant AUR)

[oblitum]

@shibumi it took a gigantic time to install (js is sooo slow to compile...), but after that I'm left with no idea where it was installed. I can't execute it simply calling N1.sh nor can Gnome find anything N1/Nylas related.

[stouf]

@oblitum @shibumi

Same for me; a lot of time to install, and it required a lot of resources as well. In the end, I couldn't find the command supposed to launch the app either.

Regarding the package n1 on AUR, it worked just fine on my environment.
One issue though: I wanted to run the server locally (see here); I could get it done, but it seemed like the client was still using the server(s) hosted by Nylas instead of the local one. I don't know yet if it's code related or package related, need time to investigate.
Also, sorry to say so, but installing the n1 package was way faster and lighter than installing n1-git... =/

[shibumi]

@oblitum normally it should work with executing n1.sh seems like I have some bugs.. didn't really tested it. I also recommend https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/n1/ . Although extracting from a .deb package is maybe not the best way. There is also no 32bit support.

@stouf of course is the n1 version faster. It' a binary package. n1-git is downloading all js dependencies and is building the binary first. My n1-git package is also only a prototype. I must modify it a lot.

[mbilker]

@shibumi I am willing to take over both packages.

[sergeyklay]

Installing a .deb package on ArchLinux

[shibumi]

@mbilker I have orphaned the package just adopt it. Be fast or someone else will do it.

[mbilker]

Hey. Since we have a n1 AUR package at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/n1. I am going to close this issue as that package uses the official deb.

I have n1-git at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/n1-git which uses the official master to build the open source version (missing proprietary sounds, fonts, and analytics).