Arch Linux User Repository

TL;DR

Upgrade using aur/yay might take very long and works inefficiently.

Upgrade using aur/paru requires the -d flag.

This is not my fault.

Note to the lovers of AUR helpers : It looks like dependency resolution is a complex topic. Despite all package relations being properly declared in the Flutter packages, most AUR helpers seem to have trouble resolving the dependency chain between the package bases aur/flutter and aur/flutter-artifacts-google-bin. This is not my fault and I cannot do anything about it.

It looks like the initial installation works fine using aur/paru. Sadly aur/paru does not reach at building updates for the package without additional flags. Please use paru -Syud (whereas the -d is the relevant flag) to upgrade the package.

On the other hand aur/yay properly reaches at both installing and updating this package, even though it builds the package 15 times (!!!) again and again.

If you use aur/paru, consider to simply execute pacman -R flutter && pacman -Rns flutter to clean up the previous installation of both package bases.

• https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/2413
• https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru/issues/1173

If you build both package bases using makepkg -sfC and later on install all build outputs using pacman -U, both the installation and the updates work like a charm.

I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, but sadly there's nothing I can do about this.

Huge update to the Flutter AUR package :

The previous implementation basically did a user installation of Flutter - downloaded the custom Dart SDK, CI artifacts from Chromium CI and had to be kept in user R/W access in order to have the Flutter Cache Manager working.

These times are now over - a clean and (almost) completely rewritten PKGBUILD which now uses clean dependency declarations, system Dart and Gradle and for sure no more user R/W installation directory.

This AUR entry is now a split package. Installing aur/flutter will still bundle the entire toolchain you knew from before. The other way round, if you don't need everything - e.g. when depending on Flutter as a build dependency in another package, you can choose to only depend on what you need.

The following split packages are available :

• flutter : meta package containing all other split packages

• flutter-common : the common files for Flutter needed for all use cases

• flutter-devel : your option of choice as a developer - ships the Flutter tool and all required templates to e.g. create a new project

• flutter-tool : The pure Flutter tool. Use as depends to build your package.

• flutter-target-linux : The Flutter Linux build files. Use as depends to build your package.

• flutter-target-web : The Flutter web build files. Use as depends to build web apps (e.g. fluffychat-web does this).

• flutter-target-android : The Flutter Android build files. Use if you want to develop Android apps.

• flutter-gradle : The Flutter Gradle wrapper. Populated from system Gradle.

• flutter-intellij-patch : a tiny patch to make the IntelliJ Flutter plugin work with the new package.

• flutter-material-fonts-google-bin : Mandatory fonts package, planned to have a system-installed drop-in replacement soon.

• flutter-engine-common-google-bin : Shared part of the Flutter engine - downloaded from Google servers.

• flutter-sky-engine-google-bin : Flutter sky engine - downloaded from Google servers.

• flutter-engine-linux-google-bin : Linux part of the Flutter engine - downloaded from Google servers.

• flutter-engine-web-google-bin : Web part of the Flutter engine - downloaded from Google servers.

• flutter-engine-android-google-bin : Android part of the Flutter engine - downloaded from Google servers.

• flutter-gradle-google-bin : The Flutter Gradle wrapper - downloaded from Google servers.

• flutter-dart-google-bin : The Flutter original Dart SDK - downloaded from Google servers. This is helpful if the extra/dart package is not available in the right version on your distro or remix.

Stay tuned for non google-bin versions of the engine, they are in coming !

Since almost everything is written from scratch and heavy patches are applied to use the system packages as dependencies, there might still be bugs occurring. Please report them otherwise I can't fix them !

@Maxr1998 Where do you set kotlin.project.persistent.dir? I don't see a change when I run flutter build apk after setting it in android/gradle.properties.

I'm pretty sure the issue with the /usr/lib/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/.kotlin folder is due to flutter upgrading the Kotlin Gradle plugin from 1.8 to Kotlin 2+ and a change introduced in Kotlin 2.0. To fix this issue, the kotlin.project.persistent.dir has to be set somewhere.

@Kppqju77 Creating the folder /usr/lib/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/.kotlin and chowning it to my user worked just fine.

I failed to install aur/flutter-devel using aur/yay because there are conflicting install files with aur/flutter-tool package, mostly under /usr/lib/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/templates dir:

flutter-devel: /usr/lib/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/templates/xcode/ios/custom_application_bundle/Runner.xcworkspace.tmpl/xcshareddata/WorkspaceSettings.xcsettings already exists in filesystem

EDIT: not sure if exactly came from that package, so I deleted /usr/lib/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/templates and could proceed with the installation without issues.

@Kppqju77 I agree. So far, I already have the gradle-user-home.patch present. In past Flutter releases, setting

project.buildDir = file(project.gradle.gradleUserHomeDir.path + "/flutter/build")

as in the patch was sufficient. Sadly this no longer works with Flutter 3.29.0. I'm sadly a bit clueless. I'm open for patches and suggestions.

You can either submit patches here as diff or visually via https://gitlab.com/flutter-archlinux/tool .

@logion this is a problem with gradle configuration (you shoud have an error report in android/build/reports/problems saying that /usr/lib/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/gradle is not writable, after chowning this repository to you user when you run flutter you should be able to go further than this error. IMO we need to define a writable "projectDirectory" inside the gradle config instead of fiddling with /usr/lib rights. I will test some more later.

After upgrading from flutter 3.27.3 to 3.29.0-3, I can't build the default app that's created via flutter create for Android anymore (nor my own app). Any ideas? Abbreviated error is below, full output is here: Full error here: https://gist.github.com/fvdnabee/d6414d52ea867d20b58762b68a5b0918

❯ flutter create -t app app
❯ cd app
❯ flutter run
Launching lib/main.dart on sdk gphone64 x86 64 in debug mode...
Running Gradle task 'assembleDebug'...

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':gradle:compileKotlin'.
> java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /usr/lib/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/.kotlin/sessions/kotlin-compiler-1507545787284407277.salive

* Try:
> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
> Run with --scan to get full insights.
> Get more help at https://help.gradle.org.

BUILD FAILED in 577ms
Running Gradle task 'assembleDebug'...                             686ms
Error: Gradle task assembleDebug failed with exit code 1

@orzogc Please build 3.29.0-2 - I admit, 3.29.0-1 had this issue.

When building flutter 3.29.0-1, I encountered these errors:

packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/artifacts.dart:1468:52: Error: Expected ';' after this.
    return io.Platform.environment['DART_ROOT'] ?? '/opt/dart-sdk'
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/android/gradle.dart:468:5: Error: The getter 'command' isn't defined for the class 'AndroidGradleBuilder'.
 - 'AndroidGradleBuilder' is from 'package:flutter_tools/src/android/gradle.dart' ('packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/android/gradle.dart').
Try correcting the name to the name of an existing getter, or defining a getter or field named 'command'.
    command.add('--project-cache-dir=$gradleUserHome/flutter/.gradle');
    ^^^^^^^
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

This package is the one the craziest things from the AUR I tried to install. From the pinned comments, this is because of how flutter is required to be installed and how the AUR helpers work, etc.

I'm going to try manual installation instead of this.