Package Details: bcompare-mate 5.2.1.32035-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/bcompare.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: bcompare
Description: MATE service menus for Beyond Compare 5.
Upstream URL: https://www.scootersoftware.com
Keywords: compare diff
Licenses: custom
Groups: utility
Submitter: Musikolo
Maintainer: Musikolo
Last Packager: Musikolo
Votes: 107
Popularity: 1.43
First Submitted: 2011-07-27 22:54 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-03-25 00:14 (UTC)

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Musikolo commented on 2024-08-25 07:07 (UTC) (edited on 2024-10-16 03:55 (UTC) by Musikolo)

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!

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JPT48 commented on 2025-10-30 23:08 (UTC)

the recent update asks for kinit5 from AUR to replace kinit from core. I believe it's not a good idea to replace a core component?

is there a way to fix this?

thanks

koutheir commented on 2025-09-11 04:33 (UTC)

@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.

Musikolo commented on 2025-09-11 03:19 (UTC)

@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.

koutheir commented on 2025-09-10 14:52 (UTC)

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

frankspace commented on 2025-09-10 03:54 (UTC)

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.

Musikolo commented on 2025-03-18 04:21 (UTC) (edited on 2025-03-18 04:21 (UTC) by Musikolo)

@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.

robindegen commented on 2025-03-15 21:21 (UTC) (edited on 2025-03-15 21:21 (UTC) by robindegen)

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.

detian commented on 2024-10-26 07:41 (UTC)

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

Musikolo commented on 2024-10-16 04:02 (UTC)

@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!

culyun commented on 2024-10-16 01:37 (UTC)

@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

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