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 !

@Rodancoci One should note that a restart of the computer is needed to make the change take effect.

@Rodancoci I compile my packages in a clean chroot and those packages are not needed to be specified in the PKGBUILD. Glu is a dependency of this package and it requires ninja and clang (check). It's strange that you didn't have those packages already installed.

Figured it out. clang and ninja should be added as makedeps.

The proper way to avoid the /opt/flutter/bin/cache permission error is to add the current user to the flutterusers group created by the flutter package. The flutter directory is owned by the root user and the flutterusers group.

usermod -aG flutterusers <user>

I'm getting a new error now, though:

CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to "Ninja".  CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set.  You probably need to select a different build tool.
CMake Error: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
Building Linux application...                                           
Unable to generate build files

https://storage.googleapis.com/flutter_infra_release/releases/stable/linux/flutter_linux_2.5.2-stable.tar.xz

I got permission errors when running flutter:

$ flutter                      
mkdir: cannot create directory '/opt/flutter/bin/cache': Permission denied

I "fixed" it by running sudo chmod a+rw -R /opt/flutter

I opened a PR to update this: https://github.com/frealgagu/archlinux.flutter/pull/9

This package was flagged out of date on the 4th of May for not releasing the 2.0.6 update; however, the 2.0.6 Flutter release was a hotfix for a bug on macOS and it doesn't concern GNU/Linux.

Form Flutter's official Github page:

2.0.6 (April 16, 2021)

This is a hotfix release that addresses a single issue:

• Issue #81326 - macOS binaries not codesigned There are no code changes to this release, but binary artifacts for macOS were re-built and codesigned.

.git is required by the CLI tool. The others aren't required, but if you mutate the checkout then the flutter upgrade command won't work.

Are the .git/, .github/, .idea/ folders really required? They are massive (over 135MiB) and seems to have no use at all. Shouldn't the PKGBUILD leave those out of the install process?