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Switching back to the system electron because of reported issues with the packaged electron. Also, fixed pkgver issue.

Build options by setting environment variables (or editing pkgbuild):

• _system_electron=false – Use the packaged electron
• _electron_version=29 – Use a specific system electron version (when default version has problems)
  • Or edit /usr/bin/beeper after install.
• _install_path=usr/lib – Use a different install path. Default is opt. (Do not include leading / and trailing /beeper.)

This is a self-updating package. It always downloads the latest available AppImage and applies the correct version number.

Please wait until over a month has passed since the last update before requesting version bumps.

@v3d I'll revise to either use the prepackaged or older system electron. Can you tell me more about your setup. X11/wayland, desktop environment, processor, gpu?

Newest version segfaults

Initializing todesktop runtime @todesktop/runtime: skipping autoUpdater initialization because application is not in AppImage. 09:36:35.143 › @todesktop/runtime: AutoUpdater: @todesktop/runtime: skipping autoUpdater initialization because application is not in AppImage. 09:36:35.262 › @todesktop/runtime: AutoUpdater: electron will-finish-launching event emitted { appVersion: '3.103.36', runtimeVersion: '1.4.0' } Web App Path is /opt/beeper/resources/webapp.asar/ iconsPath path is /opt/beeper/resources/icons/ Loading vector config for brand Beeper Fetching translation json for locale: en_EN Changing application language to en-us Fetching translation json for locale: en-us Could not fetch translation json for locale: 'en-us' Error: Cannot find module './i18n/strings/en-us.json' Require stack: - /opt/beeper/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js - /opt/beeper/resources/app.asar/lib/electron-main.js at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1151:15) at s._resolveFilename (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:120281) at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:992:27) at c._load (node:electron/js2c/node_init:2:13672) at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1242:19) at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:176:18) at AppLocalization.fetchTranslationJson (/opt/beeper/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:76:20) at /opt/beeper/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:89:39 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at AppLocalization.setAppLocale (/opt/beeper/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:88:17) { code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND', requireStack: [ '/opt/beeper/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js', '/opt/beeper/resources/app.asar/lib/electron-main.js' ] } Resetting the UI components after locale change Resetting the UI components after locale change sending browser-window-focus to react [1] 13885 segmentation fault (core dumped) beeper

Is it possible to unflag a package? If so, please do, it says its out of date on my terminal lol.

After looking into it a bit more. I believe it is matrix synapse with many bridges enabled. The linux desktop is a themed version of element desktop. I'm not sure about the mobile apps.

Very odd, judging by their github page, their entire backend is open and self hostable, down to the version of rancher they use for kubernetes. But the mobile apps arent open source? Basically the complete opposite of telegram.

It says on alternativeto website that Beeper is open source, but I can't seem to find a repo for it. The closest I could find was a way to set up your own bridge.

Someone's already flagged, but it's now out of Beta (and acquired by Automattic).

@tiziodcaio I'm leaving this package in /opt because it is a prebuilt binary package. I also don't want to move the files back and forth between /usr/share and /usr/lib whenever it does or doesn't work with system electron.

I've added a variable you can change to install wherever you want. _install_path=usr/share makepkg

Please follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Electron_package_guidelines#Directory_structure and put app.asar in /usr/share/beeper/ :]

Builds OK for me.