Package Details: activinspire 3.3.15-1.1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/activinspire.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: activinspire
Description: Presentation Software for use with Promethean Hardware products
Upstream URL: https://support.prometheanworld.com/product/activinspire
Licenses: unknown
Submitter: jose1711
Maintainer: Daved
Last Packager: Daved
Votes: 5
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2016-05-13 11:39 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-05-31 23:03 (UTC)

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malcreatuire commented on 2024-05-21 19:22 (UTC)

This Line in the PKGBUILD works for me: source=("http://activsoftware.co.uk/linux/repos/ubuntu/pool/focal/a/ac/activinspire_2004-3.3.15-1-amd64.deb"

Also activinspire seems to work under wayland. But i have problems with writing with the pen. The pen just draw a line between start and end. It works fine with my mouse, though.

Daved commented on 2024-04-27 19:23 (UTC) (edited on 2024-05-31 22:46 (UTC) by Daved)

~Because the manufacturer is no longer providing the binary files without authentication, you will need to download them manually and place them into the building directory.

  1. As far as I know, you can only authenticate from an Ubuntu distribution (20.04) according to their instruction on their website (https://support.prometheanworld.com/s/article/1758#terminal). Follow the steps on another (virtual) machine, but then use a command to download and save the .deb-package, for example sudo apt download activinspire.

  2. Copy the files to your Arch Linux distribution (into the build directory), then build and install the AUR package.~

edit: The binaries only seem to work in an x11 session. Trying to execute them on a wayland compositor leads to weird segmentation faults. If someone can fix the problem or just find an easy workaround, please do tell. Thank you.

jbreizh commented on 2022-12-02 18:15 (UTC) (edited on 2022-12-02 18:16 (UTC) by jbreizh)

Hello, i try (and succeed) to run 2.24 on my arch.

  • for the libwebp.so.6, i use "libwebp052" from AUR
  • for the libre.so.5, i use a more stupid approch : i download libre2 from ubuntu repo https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/libre2-5 , unpack it and past "libre2.so.5.0.0" and "libre2.so.5" directly inside the "activsoftware" directory.
  • i don't see your problem with "libQt6WebEngineCore" :-/

So it seems to work from my 5min test, but does it work well... I see some new hack from promothean :

  • a gnome-shell extension to disable ubuntu gesture ???
  • some rules in /etc/udev ???
  • a new export rule in the start script : export QTWEBENGINEPROCESS_PATH="/usr/local/bin/activsoftware/QtWebEngineProcess" that seems to do nothing as i try with or without it.

Maybe, it will help you to come back as our beloved maintainer !!!

Malstrond commented on 2022-12-02 08:02 (UTC)

This package is currently outdated.

However the new version 2.24.69389 [1] has the following new dependencies:

libweb.so.6 - Not packaged by arch, only .7 is available

libre.so.5 - Not packaged by arch, only .9 is available

It is looking for symbol _ZN3re23RE23Arg12parse_stringEPKcmPv in its own packaged libQt6WebEngineCore.so.6, which does not exist. If you make it use the libQt6WebEngineCore.so.6 form the Arch package qt6-webengine, it is looking for Symbol _ZN9QtPrivate25QMetaTypeInterfaceWrapperI4QUrlE8metaTypeE, which does not exist in the Arch version of the library.

I'm unable to resolve these dependencies, disowning.

1: http://activsoftware.co.uk/linux/repos/ubuntu/pool/focal/a/ac/activinspire_2004-2.24.69389-1-amd64.deb

Malstrond commented on 2020-11-24 16:07 (UTC) (edited on 2022-03-23 14:01 (UTC) by Malstrond)

Update: As of version 2.23 Promethean has noticed that their Java stuff doesn't work and has dropped the equation editor dependency on Java.

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As I said in this post [ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/activinspire/#comment-759471 ], I am aware.

However I haven't been able to figure out a solution yet.

If you trace the Inspire binary you can see that it's actually searching /usr/lib/jvm/*, but then it doesn't load the runtime.

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wuesti commented on 2020-11-04 15:23 (UTC) (edited on 2020-11-05 15:50 (UTC) by wuesti)

The Equation editor causes this error: 

"Equation editor error occured : 
Failed to load the Java runtime environment, please install the latest Java Runtime Environment to its default location. The Java Runtime Environment can be downloaded from : http://www.java.com"

Java is installed:

#archlinux-java status
Available Java environments:
  java-14-openjdk (default)

# env | grep PATH
...
PATH=...:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:...

neric commented on 2020-08-12 16:01 (UTC)

Hi ! Big THANKS !!! it works ! sounds, videos operate very well. Only "print" don't work. I have got the same message than tvr. (printing works with wine but no sound, no video) Maybe you will fix it... Thanks again !

Malstrond commented on 2020-08-09 11:02 (UTC) (edited on 2020-08-09 11:02 (UTC) by Malstrond)

icu60 was indeed a missing dependency. Thanks!

Printing doesn't work for me either. I just hadn't noticed it yet because I never print. So far I don't have an idea on how to debug this either, but I'll try. As a workaround you can export to PDF and then print the PDF.

On the upside, playing imported media (audio/video) works better now because the previous version required some 32-bit gstreamer dependencies I wasn't able to find.

tvr commented on 2020-08-06 11:25 (UTC)

Thank you for this package, @Malstrond! Since the update to version 2.19 I have two problems:

First, I'm unable to print from activinspire. Using File -> Print... only opens a window stating "No printers installed on this computer" even though printing worked with 2.18. Any idea what's wrong here or how to debug the problem?

Second, without the optional dependency activtools, inspire doesn't start. It only prints

./Inspire: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.60: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

activtools depends on icu60 which resolves the problem. Should icu60 be a direct dependency of activinspire as well?

micwoj92 commented on 2020-08-04 12:26 (UTC)

pkgrel should be 1

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