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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 !

@J21 With FVM, you can quickly install multiple Flutter and Dart versions. You can set a project-specific version so that the correct version is used in that project directory. I use it this way and it works really cleanly. I’d recommend it to you as well.

@J4UNE 10x sounds great so i just take everything else from this except flutter itself?

Use FVM (Flutter Version Manager) instead.

I keep getting

 Execution failed for task ':gradle:compileKotlin'.
 > java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /usr/lib/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/.kotlin/sessions/kotlin-compiler-7863235143730812401.salive

The Kotlin session files in /usr/lib/flutter are corrupted but require root access to fix.

Fixed it using the comment below that said

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

i.e.

1. Create the missing directory: sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/.kotlin
2. Change ownership to your user: sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /usr/lib/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/.kotlin
3. Set proper permissions: chmod 755 /usr/lib/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/.kotlin

I guess git is a missing makedependency.

Try `dart pub outdated` for more information.
Failed to find "git" in the search path.

An error was encountered when trying to run git.
Please ensure git is installed and available in your system's search path. See https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install for instructions on installing git for your platform.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

Since the latest update, I'm unable to upgrade or install it, it always tries to install the official https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/dart/ (3.7.0) but it needs a 3.8.0 dart sdk. Which dart package provider should I choose (I tried all of them with aur/yay)

@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.