Package Details: castnow-git 0.4.14.r79.g0e1746b-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/castnow-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: castnow-git
Description: Command-line utility used to play back media files on your Chromecast device
Upstream URL: https://github.com/xat/castnow
Keywords: Chromecast git node npm
Licenses: MIT
Conflicts: castnow
Provides: castnow
Submitter: archlinuxfr
Maintainer: fungible
Last Packager: fungible
Votes: 61
Popularity: 0.001235
First Submitted: 2015-08-26 18:38 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2021-12-27 06:13 (UTC)

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fungible commented on 2021-12-20 09:17 (UTC)

I've updated the PKGBUILD so it should build and install correctly but a lot of the packages/dependencies that NPM pulls in are full of warnings/vulnerabilities/deprecation so install this package at your own risk.

Upstream is not very active with their last commit being over 2 years ago.

Your best bet is to clone the repository and run npm install locally and then run npm audit to fix the dependencies yourself.

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quellen commented on 2024-09-16 11:31 (UTC) (edited on 2024-09-16 11:39 (UTC) by quellen)

hi is there any way to make it work in 2024? EDIT: solved with "sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/n/nodejs/nodejs-22.6.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst"

mhertz commented on 2024-08-26 13:40 (UTC) (edited on 2024-09-16 16:25 (UTC) by mhertz)

Currently nodejs-22.7.0-1 from [Extra] breaks running castnow with 'RangeError [ERR_BUFFER_OUT_OF_BOUNDS]: "length" is outside of buffer bounds', fixed by downgrading to previous nodejs-22.6.0-1.

Edit: Fixed in current nodejs-22.8.0-1, so no need for downgrading anymore.

simona commented on 2021-12-26 13:54 (UTC)

for some reasion every time it do again the update.

fungible commented on 2021-12-25 03:40 (UTC)

@dvb For some reason the tags on the git repository that the PKGBUILD uses to update it's version is incorrect. Looking through the commit history and the source files shows the version was bumped to 0.6.0. I wasn't sure what to do about that so I listed the newer version in the SRCINFO.

dvb commented on 2021-12-24 00:49 (UTC)

It seems that you have updated only the .SRCINFO (pkgver = 0.6.0) but not the PKGBUILD (pkgver=0.4.14.r79.g0e1746b).

fungible commented on 2021-12-20 09:17 (UTC)

I've updated the PKGBUILD so it should build and install correctly but a lot of the packages/dependencies that NPM pulls in are full of warnings/vulnerabilities/deprecation so install this package at your own risk.

Upstream is not very active with their last commit being over 2 years ago.

Your best bet is to clone the repository and run npm install locally and then run npm audit to fix the dependencies yourself.

mhertz commented on 2021-10-20 18:12 (UTC)

To fix currently failing build, edit line 12 of PKGBUILD, changing 'npm' into 'npm6'.

popoffka commented on 2021-03-20 22:19 (UTC)

Doesn't seem to build:


added 5 packages, and audited 6 packages in 2s

found 0 vulnerabilities
rm: cannot remove 'castnow': No such file or directory

whatouate commented on 2020-12-19 19:47 (UTC)

It fails when there is a space in $pkgdir. Using "$pkgdir/usr" and "$pkgdir" on line 26 and 28 fixes this issue.

dbirks commented on 2018-06-08 02:18 (UTC)

Thank you pdxleif and mhertz for the fix and reminder comment and testing. Package builds nicely now.

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