Arch Linux User Repository

@rednoah, your software is awesome, but until it is opensourced it will be built for unsupported platforms like arch and all sort of other OSes.

Also arch community doesn't distribute prebuilt executable of filebot, but give instructions how to download and to build via PKGBUILD.

So, unsupported OS, built from source, no binary executable is distributed. Sounds fair?

Distributing application as paid binary or free open source (with community support) also look fair. But you are the boss.

@max.bra The license allows an individual to customize and build FileBot for their own purposes, but disallows sharing of such builds. In the case of AUR, I recommend sticking to the FileBot 4.7.9 builds that are freely available on SourceForge. AFAIK, the old FileBot 4.7.9 release works just fine.

If there's enough support for FileBot on Linux, then I'll look into official support and builds for for Arch / AUR as well of course: https://www.patreon.com/filebot

Hi Varakh, for next time a simply "it's not working" does not help too much. Please try to be more complete writing something relevant about your system: in the case of filebot your java "type and version" and the distribution of your Archlinux: are you on Arch "classic" or on arm?

@max.bra - followed your instructions & made the necessary changes to compile using Java 8. However, compilation failed with the following message.

[javac] /tmp/filebot/src/filebot/source/net/filebot/mediainfo/MediaInfo.java:12: error: cannot find symbol
[javac] import java.lang.ref.Cleaner;

Apparently the Cleaner package is available only in Java 9.

Finally, I had to install Oracle's jdk-9 from AUR to build the package successfully.

hi blubbblubb, author is setting java version 10 for this project...

download package snapshot and edit PKGBUILD for this lines:

• depends=('java-runtime>=8' 'fontconfig' 'chromaprint')
• sed -i -E 's/jre.version: 10/jre.version: 8/' app.properties
• sed -i -E 's/jvm.version: 10/jvm.version: 8/' app.properties

and let me know if you get any trouble.

Anyone else having problem building the newest version? As far as i can see there is no javafx package for arch that works with openjdk9, i dont really want to change my default java package just for filebot.

Any hints would be welcome

@rednoah, from your github readme:

You may NOT use the source code to avoid paying for FileBot or help others to do so.

this should stop us to maintain this package...

You may build FileBot for private use on unsupported platforms.

but this cancels the previous statement.

what can you say about AUR arch position?

edit: formatting

@nadolph very nice tip, really. you save me lot of time... i will package that ASAP.

1. Install jdk package from AUR.
2. Install apache-ivy.
3. Build filebot:

$ git clone https://github.com/filebot/filebot.git

$ cd filebot

$ sed -i -E 's/release="([^"]*)"/target=\1 source=\1/' build.xml

$ ant resolve

$ ant fatjar

$ java -jar dist/Filebot_4.8.0.jar