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A recent commit in Anki introduced the possibility to control which protoc binary is called via the environment variable PROTOC_BINARY. If not set, it will try to call the protoc binary at a place that does not exist. Please adapt the PKGBUILD so that the protoc binary from the python-protobuf is used. Thanks in advance!

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 641908e..09b2b44 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@
 # Contributor: Timm Preetz <timm@preetz.us>
 # Contributor: Michael 'manveru' Fellinger <m.fellinger@gmail.com>
 # Contributor: Dave Pretty <david dot pretty at gmail dot com>
+# Contributor: Tobias Predel <tobias.predel@gmail.com>

 pkgname=anki-git
-pkgver=r9764.797270802
+pkgver=r9947.96a9dba67
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Helps you remember facts (like words/phrases in a foreign language) efficiently"
 url="http://ankisrs.net/"
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ build() {

     export CC=/usr/bin/clang
     export CXX=/usr/bin/clang++
-    ./tools/build
+    PROTOC_BINARY=$(which protoc) ./tools/build
 }

 package() {

Has anyone tried to build this package with docker?

For me it does fail with the following error. Not sure how to resolve this. All dependencies (including protobuf and python-protobuf) are installed. My build container is based on archlinux:base-devel. The full log can be viewed here.

This may be a Docker-specific issue, independent of the anki-git PKGBUILD file. Thanks for creating/maintaining that file!

?[0m?[0m?[1m?[32m   Compiling?[0m workspace-hack v0.1.0 (/tmp/pkg/src/anki-git/tools/workspace-hack)
?[0m?[0m?[1m?[32m   Compiling?[0m ninja_gen v0.0.0 (/tmp/pkg/src/anki-git/build/ninja_gen)
?[0m?[0m?[1m?[32m   Compiling?[0m configure v0.0.0 (/tmp/pkg/src/anki-git/build/configure)
?[0m?[0m?[1m?[32m    Finished?[0m dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 18.65s
?[0m?[0m?[1m?[32m     Running?[0m `out/rust/debug/configure`
ninja: error: '/tmp/pkg/src/anki-git/out/extracted/protoc/bin/protoc', needed by '/tmp/pkg/src/anki-git/out/pylib/anki/ankidroid_pb2.py', missing and no known rule to make it
?[0m?[0m?[1m?[32m    Finished?[0m dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.16s
?[0m?[0m?[1m?[32m     Running?[0m `out/rust/debug/configure`
ninja: error: '/tmp/pkg/src/anki-git/out/extracted/protoc/bin/protoc', needed by '/tmp/pkg/src/anki-git/out/pylib/anki/ankidroid_pb2.py', missing and no known rule to make it
?[0m?[1m?[31m
Build failed.

Thanks, pushed an update! If something goes wrong, please tell me.

Anki has recently changed its build system to Ninja.

I applied something like the following changes to adapt the PKGBUILD in compliance with development.md:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 0fbf561..9c7182f 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@
 # Contributor: Michael 'manveru' Fellinger <m.fellinger@gmail.com>
 # Contributor: Dave Pretty <david dot pretty at gmail dot com>

 pkgname=anki-git
 pkgver=r9412.bc6ede7c1
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Helps you remember facts (like words/phrases in a foreign language) efficiently"
 url="http://ankisrs.net/"
 license=('AGPL3')
 arch=('any')
 provides=('anki')
 conflicts=('anki' 'anki20' 'anki-official-binary-bundle')
 depends=(
     # anki and aqt
     'python-beautifulsoup4'
@@ -36,22 +36,20 @@ depends=(
     'python-markdown'
     'python-jsonschema'
     'python-pyaudio'
-    'python-pyqtwebengine'
     'python-flask'
     'python-flask-cors'
     'python-waitress'
-    'python-pyqt5'
+    'python-pyqt6'
+    'python-pyqt6-webengine'
 )
 makedepends=(
     'git'
     'rsync'
-
-    'bazel'
+    'ninja'
     'clang'

     'maturin'
     'rust'
-
     'python-pip'
     'python-mypy-protobuf'
     'npm'
@@ -65,13 +63,11 @@ optdepends=(
 )
 source=(
     $pkgname::git+https://github.com/dae/anki.git
-
-    #ankitects-anki-core-i18n-master.tar.gz::https://github.com/ankitects/anki-core-i18n/tarball/master
-    #ankitects-anki-desktop-ftl-master.tar.gz::https://github.com/ankitects/anki-desktop-ftl/tarball/master
-    #ankitects-anki-desktop-i18n-master.tar.gz::https://github.com/ankitects/anki-desktop-i18n/tarball/master
 )
 sha512sums=('SKIP')

 pkgver() {
     cd "$pkgname"
     printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
@@ -80,34 +76,21 @@ pkgver() {
 prepare() {
     cd "$pkgname"

-    # Disable foring a specific bazel version to build with
-    rm .bazelversion
-
-    # Work around option that got removed in bazel
-    sed -i 's/--experimental_no_product_name_out_symlink//g' .bazelrc
-
-    # Put translations in place.
-    #ln -sf "$srcdir"/ankitects-anki-core-i18n-*/ rslib/ftl/repo
-    #ln -sf "$srcdir"/ankitects-anki-desktop-ftl-*/ qt/ftl/repo
-    #ln -sf "$srcdir"/ankitects-anki-desktop-i18n-*/ qt/po/repo
-
-    echo "build --action_env=PYO3_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3" > "$srcdir/$pkgname/user.bazelrc"
 }

 build() {
     cd "$pkgname"

     export CC=/usr/bin/clang
     export CXX=/usr/bin/clang++
-    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk
     ./tools/build
 }

 package() {
     cd "$pkgname"
-    PIP_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null pip install --isolated --root="$pkgdir" --ignore-installed --no-deps .bazel/out/dist/anki-*.whl .bazel/out/dist/aqt-*.whl
+    PIP_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null pip install --isolated --root="$pkgdir" --ignore-installed --no-deps out/wheels/*.whl

     install -Dm755 qt/runanki.py "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/anki
     install -Dm644 qt/bundle/lin/anki.desktop "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications/anki.desktop
     install -Dm644 qt/bundle/lin/anki.png "$pkgdir"/usr/share/pixmaps/anki.png
 }

Hope this helps.

Hi @DarkShadow44,

Just saw the pinned comments, and tried:

rm -rf ./cache/bazel

and then the build succeeded. Thank you for the help.

@DarkShadow44. Yes I did clean the cache from "~/.cache/yay/anki-git" before running

yay -S anki-git

Also, I just tried it again hopping to have different results as I just upgraded my Arch Linux system lately, but I still got the exact same errors.

@york Did you try cleaning the cache from "~/.cache/yay/anki-git/"?

I wasn't able to install anki-git. The following was the full log. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

$ uname -a
Linux xxxxx 5.19.1-arch2-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:06:13 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ yay -S anki-git
:: Checking for conflicts...
:: Checking for inner conflicts...
[Aur:1]  anki-git-r9412.bc6ede7c1-1

:: (1/1) Downloaded PKGBUILD: anki-git
  1 anki-git                         (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 
:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: anki-git
==> Making package: anki-git r9412.bc6ede7c1-1 (Mon 15 Aug 2022 03:35:36 PM EDT)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Cloning anki-git git repo...
Cloning into bare repository '~/.cache/yay/anki-git/anki-git'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 130342, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1246/1246), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (473/473), done.
remote: Total 130342 (delta 839), reused 1092 (delta 772), pack-reused 129096
Receiving objects: 100% (130342/130342), 70.12 MiB | 51.69 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (102280/102280), done.
==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    anki-git ... Skipped
==> Making package: anki-git r9412.bc6ede7c1-1 (Mon 15 Aug 2022 03:35:45 PM EDT)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Updating anki-git git repo...
==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    anki-git ... Skipped
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Creating working copy of anki-git git repo...
Cloning into 'anki-git'...
done.
==> Starting prepare()...
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Updated version: anki-git r9576.9ca13ca3b-1
==> Sources are ready.
==> Making package: anki-git r9576.9ca13ca3b-1 (Mon 15 Aug 2022 03:35:49 PM EDT)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Starting build()...
Starting local Bazel server and connecting to it...
INFO: Analyzed target //:wheels (723 packages loaded, 31483 targets configured).
INFO: Found 1 target...
Target //:wheels up-to-date:
  .bazel/bin/wheels.tar
INFO: Elapsed time: 14.626s, Critical Path: 1.87s
INFO: 1 process: 1 internal.
INFO: Build completed successfully, 1 total action
wheels are in .bazel/out/dist
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
Processing ./.bazel/out/dist/anki-2.1.51-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl
Processing ./.bazel/out/dist/anki-2.1.55-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl
Processing ./.bazel/out/dist/aqt-2.1.51-py3-none-any.whl
Processing ./.bazel/out/dist/aqt-2.1.55-py3-none-any.whl
ERROR: Cannot install anki 2.1.51 (from ~/.cache/yay/anki-git/src/anki-git/.bazel/out/dist/anki-2.1.51-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl) and anki 2.1.55 (from ~/.cache/yay/anki-git/src/anki-git/.bazel/out/dist/anki-2.1.55-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl) because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.

The conflict is caused by:
    The user requested anki 2.1.51 (from ~/.cache/yay/anki-git/src/anki-git/.bazel/out/dist/anki-2.1.51-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl)
    The user requested anki 2.1.55 (from ~/.cache/yay/anki-git/src/anki-git/.bazel/out/dist/anki-2.1.55-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl)

To fix this you could try to:
1. loosen the range of package versions you've specified
2. remove package versions to allow pip attempt to solve the dependency conflict

ERROR: ResolutionImpossible: for help visit https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/topics/dependency-resolution/#dealing-with-dependency-conflicts
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: anki-git

@homocomputeris Just changing the dependencies to qt6 won't work, since I still will have the qt5 dependencies installed. Not sure how to make anki pick qt6.

@DarkShadow44

UPD: Seems that copypaste from/to Anki Qt6 doesn't work.

There is a Qt6 PKGBUILD (with other minor fixes too) in the comments below, which is basically changing qt5 to qt6 counterparts.

It seems that Anki doesn't depend on Java explicitly, because it was replaced by Rust.

Sorry, I did flag this because back then it didn't build even with the bazel cache removed, so it seemed that something had changed on the build process side.