Arch Linux User Repository

You can build the last version of Beyond Compare v4 I packaged (4.4.7.28397) by doing this:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/bcompare.git/
cd bcompare
git checkout dcf8794f1301c9213558b2583a956c04cf2a2135
makepkg -crs

Since you have a license for v4, you might be interested in looking at the upgrade policy at https://www.scootersoftware.com/kb/upgradepolicy .

I hope it helps!

@Musikolo, I never intended to install bcompare-kde5, as I'm running KDE Plasma 6. I just wanted to inform you of the failure that happened when an automatic installation of it was attempted. I removed the package from my system.

@koutheir / @frankspace, please try the new bcompare-kde5 package and let me know if you ran into any further issues. Lastly, please note you'll need to build kinit5 dependency from AUR.

Regards.

$ makepkg -i ... warning: cannot resolve "kinit", a dependency of "bcompare-kde5" :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: bcompare-kde5

kinit has seemingly been dropped from repositories, but there's a kinit5 AUR package now that seems to be exactly the same thing but renamed.

@robindegen, it turns out I have the qt5-wayland package installed in my computer as a dependency of other packages I use. To prove whether it is required by bcompare, I removed it by issuing pacman -Rdd qt5-wayland. After that, I was able to start bcompare same as when the package was installed. So, since nothing changed, I installed the package back.

Please let me know if you find out something else.

Regards.

Almost a year later i finally have another machine to test it on; A clean arch+hyprland install on my thinkpad had the exact same issue with bcompare 5. Installing qt5-wayland fixed the problem in this case aswell.

The context menu plugin for kde5 should in /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kfileitemaction instead of /usr/lib/qt5/plugins/kf5/kfileitemaction

@culyun, branching and tagging is restricted in the Arch Git repos. If you still want to use the latest version of BC4, please follow the steps on the message I pinned.

Other than that, please note that BC4 is no longer maintained, so it isn't recommended to use it anymore.

I hope that helps!

@Musikolo thanks for maintaining this package.

I have a BC4 licenses but not BC5. I suspect they'll be a fair few of us in the same boat.

Any chance of tagging / branching BC4 (dcf8794f1301) Or is this when someone creates a bcompare-4 package?? Sorry for my ignorance.

Cheers

Steve

@musikolo Not at this moment but i will let you know if i do.

The only thing i can think of is that i do force Qt apps to go into wayland mode. Was that also the case for this machine? Because otherwise it just runs on xwayland and then i can imagine it would just work without.

Environment:

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland

If you don't do that, theres quite a performance impact, and up until recently caused a lot of issues with nvidia cards; this is now fixed for the most part.