Package Details: bcompare 5.0.4.30422-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/bcompare.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: bcompare
Description: Beyond Compare 5: Compare, sync, and merge files and folders.
Upstream URL: https://www.scootersoftware.com
Keywords: compare diff
Licenses: custom
Groups: utility
Submitter: Musikolo
Maintainer: Musikolo
Last Packager: Musikolo
Votes: 100
Popularity: 0.044454
First Submitted: 2011-07-27 22:54 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-12-03 04:33 (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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Musikolo commented on 2024-08-09 10:01 (UTC) (edited on 2024-08-09 10:01 (UTC) by Musikolo)

@robindegen, I'm also on latest KDE wayland. I have kwayland-integration installed which depends on qt5-wayland. However, if I delete it with pacman -Sdd qt5-wayland, I can start bcompare seamlessly.

If you can share more details on what error you're getting, I could look into.

Thanks.

robindegen commented on 2024-08-07 14:10 (UTC)

I'm on latest using KDE wayland. I had to manually install qt5-wayland for this to work. It kept crashing otherwise

snowcrash79 commented on 2024-07-27 12:18 (UTC)

Everything works fine now, thank you @Musikolo for keeping this package up to date!

Musikolo commented on 2024-07-27 07:21 (UTC)

Thanks @snowcrash79 for sharing that. I added it to the dependency list and removed quite a few other ones that are no longer necessary.

If anyone runs into any issues, please let me know. Thanks!

snowcrash79 commented on 2024-07-26 22:51 (UTC)

It seems like qt5-x11extras might be a necessary dependency, at least I had to install that package for version 5.0.1 (build 29877). Without it I was getting the error "Some Shared Libraries were not found"

Ashark commented on 2024-07-23 19:24 (UTC)

@Musikolo Hi. This package does not follow naming guidelines. Please see here for instructions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE_package_guidelines#KF_package_naming

Musikolo commented on 2024-07-19 09:52 (UTC) (edited on 2024-07-19 09:53 (UTC) by Musikolo)

Hi @max.bra, generally speaking it is a bad practice to run UI apps as root. So, if I were you, I'd look into other ways to run bcompare as a non-root user.

Other than that, I didn't see anything that tells exactly what your issue, so all I could tell is to try out a few things:

  • Delete any old/existing configurations: rm -rf ~/.beyondcompare ~/.config/bcompare5.
  • Run it as a regular user, but if you still want/need to run it as root, make sure the root user has access to the graphical server. I recall I used to run xhost + when I had Xorg, but now that I have Wayland, I had never dealt with that issue.

I hope it helps. Regards.

max.bra commented on 2024-07-18 21:23 (UTC)

hi all and thanks to maintainer.
I've recently upgraded bcompare to version 5 and i'm no more able to start it as root user. I've cleaned all available .config dirs and files. no debug dirs and files too. this is the laconic message on start: 

usr/bin/bcompare: riga 43: 273902 Annullato               (core dump creato) /bin/bash -c "exec -a $0 $EXEC $ARGS > /dev/null 2>&1" $0

and this link is for the strace.

Anyone? Any tips?

electricprism commented on 2024-07-09 21:05 (UTC) (edited on 2024-07-09 21:07 (UTC) by electricprism)

The new dark theme in 5.x is a huge improvement for me. Clearing the cache in ~/.cache/paru/clone/bcompare and paru -S bcompare --overwrite="*" cleared the conflicting beta files in the filesystem.

This is great software I use it daily.

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