@dev_aryoda
Indeed it was something to do with QGnomepPlatform. I use GNOME, and some time ago Back In Time stopped displaying the toolbar icons so I installed this both the Qt5 and the Qt6 versions (although in hindsight none of my apps use Qt6 yet) and it solved this problem back then. Now uninstalling the QGnomepPlatform packages allowed me to finally make the backintime
packages and install them without error, and the icons are displaying just fine.
I was going to install QGnomePlatform again to look into this qqc2-desktop-style thing. Apparently just using adwaita-qt5-git
and qgnomeplatform-qt5-git
should work if I set QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=adwaita
. Apparently I installed such packages back when there were in the extras
repository and now they are not anymore? Perhaps my problem was because they were old versions? Anyway, I was not able to install qgnomeplatform-qt5-git
because its build script is failing for some strange reason; notifying its maintainer.
Thanks for your help!
UPDATE: Finally installed QGnomePlatform (and Qt-Adwaita) back, from the -git
repositories linked to from the wiki page you linked to. My difficulty with installing then was solved by installing extra/qqc2-desktop-style5
, which was also mentioned in the error message. Then I was able to compile Back In Time successfully and installing it without any problem.
Pinned Comments
graysky commented on 2023-10-07 12:15 (UTC)
Using an AUR helper such as yay to build packages including backintime is HIGHLY discouraged. The recommended build method is to use a clean chroot. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot
I wrote a script that automates much of that called clean-chroot-manager offered here in the AUR.
Please stop posting build failures because you insist on building with yay or other AUR helpers.