Hi, today I found out that the original src path@PKGBUILD
"http://activsoftware.co.uk/linux/repos/ubuntu/pool/non-oss/a/activinspire/activinspire_${pkgver}-1.amd64_amd64.deb"
no longer exists. However it's possible to use http://migasfree.educa.aragon.es/pdis/Promethean/bionic/promethean64_bionic/ At least it worked for me. How can we/I change the aur package? I cloned
https://aur.archlinux.org/activinspire.git
already but did not find any hint how to proceed if a package is out of date/or not working. @Malstrond: Can you give a hint? I want to help, but in archlinux.org wiki I did not find any page to request an update of a package. A kernel bug seemed not the right place for this issue ;-) Shall I simple commit the suggested, currently working src url? Am I allowed simply to change the package? Is there any review procedure? Is it even a good idea to use this currently working url since I don't no anything about the intentions of the guys maintaining the file and any future plans.
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Daved commented on 2024-04-27 19:23 (UTC) (edited on 2024-04-28 08:00 (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.
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
.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.