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I appreciate the work, but I can't get this to work at all. The manual says that running "sudo -u anki-sync-server ./ankisyncctl.py adduser <username>" inside "/opt/anki-sync-server" should create a username and allow to set a password, but "ankisyncctl.py" isn't in that directory. After copying it from the "_cli" directory to the main directory, running it still doesn't work because the python libraries need to be found. After making the python path accessible, and creating a username and password, and copying the init.py file to the appropriate location, anki still complains of an incorrect username/password pair. Don't know how to get this working.

Any advice would be appreciated.

added, thanks!

Even though the files are included in the git repo, you should still include them in the source array since tools like mkchrootpkg will only copy over the listed sources and not every file.

At least for me, I need to patch those in for it to work.

Here's the full patch I made in case anyone wants it / the maintainer wants to incorporate it:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 2ede655..a0101e6 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -13,35 +13,52 @@ depends=('python' 'python-pip' 'nginx')
 makedepends=('git' 'portaudio')
 optdepends=()
 install=anki-sync-server.install
-source=('git+https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server.git')
-md5sums=('SKIP')
+source=('git+https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server.git'
+        'anki2.0.py'
+        'anki2.1.28.py'
+        'anki2.1.py'
+        'anki-sync-server.groff'
+        'anki-sync-server.install'
+        'anki-sync-server.service'
+        'nginx_append_config.awk'
+        'nginx_http'
+        'nginx_https')
+sha256sums=('SKIP'
+            '5f6c65418841bd638065b7c874a267898f8abb1c5c56dfd47c5908a4f9a83465'
+            'df3efb08711b0ef9be3a2e264cd54bd8d50d77576f538f499dcbfce1c4b4d9df'
+            'cc2ec96b2ec18d8b161f0c8233c1ddff58cddb59bfd05e1c5910eb7ef0ce9c93'
+            '48ed322539cff276909d8eb6d81c17c776e1f2ec6353ce6aef1b8a559271b0ad'
+            '09704f72e1d8a804d0a2de6443adbbec98431564538c95c28fed713ce219ecfb'
+            'eb6b4f2682290e341a377bee12246c076816789d8f716fdd26c7367a47408e91'
+            'e8b0bc5a03fd39423c64fc804199b258d53f2ad5327954d74d3a3be0dfe7924a'
+            '9a48034fabdf487502663149d7cfd4a59bdf0e116e681c790e0c39b23267d7cb'
+            '7638620d532a55e3423cee9ee7905941ef81fae1b024bf7960bee1b9dcd65efe')
 backup=(etc/nginx/sites-available/{anki-sync-server-http,anki-sync-server-https} usr/lib/systemd/system/anki-sync-server.service)

-_repo_dir_="$(basename ${source} | cut -f 1 -d '.')"
-_anki_dir_="${_repo_dir_}/src"
 _install_dir_="/opt/${pkgname%-git}"

 pkgver() {
-  cd "${_repo_dir_}"
+  cd "${srcdir}/anki-sync-server"
   printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
 }

 prepare() {
   # move plugins and systemd file to src package
-  local _plugins_="${_anki_dir_}/plugins/"
+  local _anki_dir_="${srcdir}/anki-sync-server/src"
+  local _plugins_="${_anki_dir_}/plugins"
   mkdir -p "${_plugins_}"
   mkdir -p "${_plugins_}/anki2.0/"
   mkdir -p "${_plugins_}/anki2.1/anki-sync-server"
   mkdir -p "${_plugins_}/anki2.1.28/anki-sync-server"
   mkdir -p "${_plugins_}/nginx/"
   mkdir -p "${_plugins_}/systemd/"
-  cp "../anki2.0.py" "${_plugins_}/anki2.0/anki-sync-server.py"
-  cp "../anki2.1.py" "${_plugins_}/anki2.1/anki-sync-server/__init__.py"
-  cp "../anki2.1.28.py" "${_plugins_}/anki2.1.28//anki-sync-server/__init__.py"
-  cp "../anki-sync-server.service" "${_plugins_}/systemd/"
-  cp "../nginx_http" "${_plugins_}/nginx/anki-sync-server-http"
-  cp "../nginx_https" "${_plugins_}/nginx/anki-sync-server-https"
-  cp "../nginx_append_config.awk" "${_plugins_}/nginx/append.awk"
+  cp "${srcdir}/anki2.0.py" "${_plugins_}/anki2.0/anki-sync-server.py"
+  cp "${srcdir}/anki2.1.py" "${_plugins_}/anki2.1/anki-sync-server/__init__.py"
+  cp "${srcdir}/anki2.1.28.py" "${_plugins_}/anki2.1.28//anki-sync-server/__init__.py"
+  cp "${srcdir}/anki-sync-server.service" "${_plugins_}/systemd/"
+  cp "${srcdir}/nginx_http" "${_plugins_}/nginx/anki-sync-server-http"
+  cp "${srcdir}/nginx_https" "${_plugins_}/nginx/anki-sync-server-https"
+  cp "${srcdir}/nginx_append_config.awk" "${_plugins_}/nginx/append.awk"

   # set plugins to use current ip address as plugins' target address
   cd "${_anki_dir_}"
@@ -68,22 +85,24 @@ prepare() {
 }

 package() {
+  local _anki_dir_="${srcdir}/anki-sync-server/src"
+
   # anki-sync-server package
   mkdir -p "${pkgdir}${_install_dir_}"
-  cp -R "${srcdir}/${_anki_dir_}/." "${pkgdir}${_install_dir_}"
+  cp -R "${_anki_dir_}/." "${pkgdir}${_install_dir_}"

   # manpage
   mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man1"
-  cp "${srcdir}/${_anki_dir_}/plugins/man/man1/anki-sync-server.1.gz" \
+  cp "${_anki_dir_}/plugins/man/man1/anki-sync-server.1.gz" \
     "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man1/anki-sync-server.1.gz"

   # nginx
   mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/etc/nginx/sites-available"
   mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/etc/nginx/sites-enabled"
-  cp "${srcdir}/${_anki_dir_}/plugins/nginx/anki-sync-server-http" "${pkgdir}/etc/nginx/sites-available"
-  cp "${srcdir}/${_anki_dir_}/plugins/nginx/anki-sync-server-https" "${pkgdir}/etc/nginx/sites-available"
+  cp "${_anki_dir_}/plugins/nginx/anki-sync-server-http" "${pkgdir}/etc/nginx/sites-available"
+  cp "${_anki_dir_}/plugins/nginx/anki-sync-server-https" "${pkgdir}/etc/nginx/sites-available"

   # systemd service
   mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/"
-  cp "${srcdir}/${_anki_dir_}/plugins/systemd/anki-sync-server.service" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/"
+  cp "${_anki_dir_}/plugins/systemd/anki-sync-server.service" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/"
 }

rats! I was just finishing up work on it and hoping no one would've noticed :P

yeah during testing at that time I was using 27701-27703 for testing the http, https and anki servers and forgot to update those files.

but, I made some changes to this package and it now has:

• 2 server files (http & https) : https is needed for AnkiDroid in particular

• a manpage with instructions for setting up the https server

• the ports are now properly set to 27701 for the client plugins :P

give it a spin!

Hello,

I could not do any sync from Anki desktop (anki-bin package) to Anki Sync Server installed with this package, while download was working fine. The issue is the same as https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server/issues/108 and I found that the __init__.py file of the plugin was incorrectly using 27702 (Anki Sync Server port directly) instead of 27701 (NGINX proxy), see my comment at https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server/issues/108#issuecomment-1016817755. After changing the port for 27701, it's working fine.

Thanks for maintaining this package, once this little issue fixed, it's working well.

I didn't even know that was a thing :P

I'll have to look into that.

edit: it's switched now.

What about switching this package to https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server?

ok

Please add 'git' into makedepends,

'Cannot find the git package needed to handle git sources'

Ok, so I'm guessing you probably followed my instructions in the post-install to run python -m ankisyncd which then gave you webob and decorator missing dependency issues.

The command should've been sudo -u anki-sync-server python -m ankisyncd because the packages were installed to that user specifically so as to not pollute your userspace. I didn't catch the decorator dependency though as my testing distro already had it installed so thanks for that.

I've updated the post-install text and added some extra lines to (hopefully) clarify that issue.

:)

Changing out my hardware at the moment, I'll add those packages to the required list in a couple of days.

I had to additionally install the following packages: python-webob python-decorator