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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 !

After deleting the .pub-cache folder from my home it worked too. Thanks!

1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
PKGBUILD | 18 +++++++++++++++++-

modified   PKGBUILD
@@ -14,8 +14,24 @@ makedepends=("python")
 backup=("opt/${pkgname}/packages/${pkgname}_test/pubspec.yaml" "opt/${pkgname}/packages/${pkgname}/pubspec.yaml")
 options=("!emptydirs")
 install="${pkgname}.install"
+# Use bash Parameter Expansion so that the more than 2 billion people
+# (almost 30% of the population) that are currently under illegal
+# unilateral sanctions by the west (collectively makes up about 10% of
+# the population) can download and use flutter.
+
+# For those that live in China, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Russia, North
+# Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Belarus,
+# Palestine, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Libya, Zimbabwe (this list gets
+# bigger every year) you are not allowed to access
+# storage.googleapis.com and therefore will need to export these two
+# shell variables in your ~/.bashrc:
+
+# export FLUTTER_STORAGE_BASE_URL=https://storage.flutter-io.cn export
+# export PUB_HOSTED_UTL=https://pub.flutter-io.cn
+
+# Thank you to China for not being fascist psychopaths.
 source=(
-  "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.xz::https://storage.googleapis.com/flutter_infra_release/releases/stable/linux/${pkgname}_linux_${pkgver/.hotfix/+hotfix}-stable.tar.xz"
+  "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.xz::${FLUTTER_STORAGE_BASE_URL:-https://storage.googleapis.com}/flutter_infra_release/releases/stable/linux/${pkgname}_linux_${pkgver/.hotfix/+hotfix}-stable.tar.xz"
   "${pkgname}.sh"
   "${pkgname}.csh"
 )

I have added flutter to my unofficial repository, due to it being a dependency of a package I maintain saber.

Feel free to pull it from my repository, check out PolarRepo

When I try to install it using yay I get the following error:

Got dependencies.
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/dwds-19.0.0/lib/data/build_result.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/dwds-19.0.0/lib/data/serializers.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/dwds-19.0.0/lib/data/debug_event.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_value-8.4.4/lib/serializer.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/dwds-19.0.0/lib/data/extension_request.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_value-8.4.4/lib/serializer.dart:6:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/src/internal/hash.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/src/internal/hash.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_value-8.4.4/lib/src/big_int_serializer.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_value-8.4.4/lib/src/date_time_serializer.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_value-8.4.4/lib/src/duration_serializer.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_value-8.4.4/lib/src/int64_serializer.dart:5:8: Error: Error when reading '../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/built_collection-5.1.1/lib/built_collection.dart': No such file or directory
import 'package:built_collection/built_collection.dart';
       ^
==> ERROR: Se produjo un fallo en build().
    Cancelando...
 -> error compilando: flutter-exit status 4
 -> Ha fallado al instalar los siguientes paquetes. Una intervención manual es requerida:
flutter - exit status 4

After deleting the .pub-cache folder from my home it worked.

Following the suggestion by jpike, I had to run the following command after installation to avoid the "The Flutter directory is not a clone of the GitHub project" error.

mv "/opt/flutter/.git-refs" "/opt/flutter/.git"

Why remove the flutterusers group and make the permission rw for all users. This is a poor decision and using a flutterusers group better in term of security

Once installed flutte complains with

Error: The Flutter directory is not a clone of the GitHub project.
       The flutter tool requires Git in order to operate properly;
       to install Flutter, see the instructions at:
       https://flutter.dev/get-started

Why rename the .git directory to .git-refs ? It seemst o work for me with .git not .git-refs

Fresh install (not upgrade) seems to be broken, flutter doctor gives:

Error: The Flutter directory is not a clone of the GitHub project.

flutter 3.7 was working fine, with that install we had /opt/flutter/.git and with the latest release this directory is not present.

I can see that the PKGBUILD does mv "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/.git" "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/.git-refs" and that the flutter.install has mv "/opt/flutter/.git-refs" "/opt/flutter/.git" in its post_upgrade, I think maybe the problem is that for a fresh install the post_upgrade doesn't run, maybe this command should be in post_install. Although I thought that post_upgrade also runs for fresh installations so I'm not sure.

I could not setup flutter using the flutter package. It has issues detecting its own version when I run after a fresh install:

cat /opt/flutter/version

it outputs:

3.10.1

if I run flutter doctor and check the contents again it outputs:

0.0.0-unknown

The previous errors happen because flutter doctor tool expects the flutter installation path to be a git cloned repository and tries to use git to perform various tasks like derive the version from the git branch it is checked out and so on. That's why while trying to detect the version it fails and sets it as unknown

No idea how to fix these issues while using the flutter package from AUR, I don't want to have a manual setup that would require manual intervention in the future

i encounter this error message after successful installation

Error: The Flutter directory is not a clone of the GitHub project.
  The flutter tool requires Git in order to operate properly;
  to install Flutter, see the instructions at:
  https://flutter.dev/get-started

i found it in line 218-226 /opt/flutter/bin/internal/shared.sh

# Test if the flutter directory is a git clone (otherwise git rev-parse HEAD
# would fail)
if [[ ! -e "$FLUTTER_ROOT/.git" ]]; then
    >&2 echo "Error: The Flutter directory is not a clone of the GitHub project."
    >&2 echo "       The flutter tool requires Git in order to operate properly;"
    >&2 echo "       to install Flutter, see the instructions at:"
    >&2 echo "       https://flutter.dev/get-started"
    exit 1
fi

i just clone flutter repository to /opt/flutter and added symbolic link for google-chrome and dart bind with flutter so i remove dart by

sudo pacman -R dart

and

 sudo ln -s "/opt/flutter/bin/dart" "/usr/bin/dart"
 sudo ln -s "/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome" "/usr/bin/google-chrome"

thanks for this great aur