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!

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!

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"

@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

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.

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?

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.

Sorry about the flag. Clicked the button before I read the note.

@Musikolo

Yeah, cleaned things up (removed the /usr/lib/beyondcompare. Didn't have a .kde directory, but did have a .kde4... which is gone now). Deleted everything, redownloaded the snapshot, ran makepkg, and still have the same issue. The strace looks much better (all pointing at "/usr/lib/beyondcompare/).

Built package still contains the odd '/usr/src/debug/' stuff, and still can't find the license on startup (also .config/bcompare5 is empty still).

Will try a few other things out, I guess. Appreciate the help, though.

@bakgwailo, I need to look into it further, but at first sight, I could see a few things:

• For some reason, your bcompare package has the following directories which shouldn't be there:

/usr/src/
/usr/src/debug/
/usr/src/debug/bcompare/

• You have the file /usr/lib/beyondcompare/kde_context_menu which doesn't belong to any of the BC5 packages.
• You shouldn't need the .kde directory. In particular, there are references to old service menus there. My recommendation is to delete it or, at least, temporarily rename it.
• If you installed the BC5 using its own installer (install.sh), please run its uninstaller (uninstall.sh) to clean up everything and uninstall all BC4 & BC5 packages you have. Then, on an empty directory, build the package again, and only install the bcompare package with no extensions(kde5, etc...).
• I found your system has a lot of old stuff around. A clean up would be a great thing to do when you have time.

I hope that helps.