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If you have troubles, read this message!

Please go to the relevant section of this comment in order to make both your and my life easier :)

1. Errors when starting the app like: the chat area is all blue
2. (Obsolete) I get an error when upgrading packages

Now, to the resolutions!

1. The app opens but I got a blue screen and nothing more / The app refuses to start / ...

The package depends on Node.js native stuff which are compiled at build time, which makes it break on Electron updates.

With a PKGBUILD between 2020-11-15 till 2021-09-08, you should always have gad a correct matching between Electron and Franz versions.

After 2021-09-08, while the Electron packages follows just the official Arch package dependency, as it is based on not-rolling versions (AKA following a specific Electron branch) breakages are unlikely.

If you would like to help me on this, whenever you have problems starting it, do the following:

1. Open Franz
2. Franz is broken: maybe for a recent update?
3. Reinstall Franz from AUR; this will make it rebuild the native blobs
4. Re-open Franz
5. Franz should work fine; if so, it was a Node.js/Electron/else update problem

If the above steps help you, report the package as outdated here and write in the comment something like:

Electron update broke Franz

If you have some other issues, you should open the developer tools and give me its output, in addition to what is your environment, so I can figure out if it is a packaging issue (my job to fix) or an upstream/code issue (their job to fix); in the second case, I will open a bug request and mention it in a comment, so that you can track it.

2. (Obsolete) I cannot upgrade Electron

The following resolution is not valid since 2021-09-08, it is kept for historic purposes

This is intended; since the PKGBUILD for Franz 5.5.0-4, the package marks as dependency a version-locked Electron package in order to avoid issues with binary modules over upgrades.

In such scenario, you should, assuming _electron="electron" in the PKGBUILD (meaning the Electron used is bundled in the package electron):

1. Mark this package as out of date
2. Do you regular updates with: pacman -Syu --ignore electron

If you want however to upgrade the Electron package, do

1. Upgrade the electron package with pacman -S --assume-installed electron=FRANZ.REQUIRED.VERSION electron
2. Rebuild Franz if needed

Hope this was a good explanation, might get updates if I missed something :)

@gavsiu Seems like replacing yarn with npm in the PKGBUILD fixed it for me!

@FFY00 in fact I'm having this issue right now:

==> Making package: franz 5.0.0_beta.18-1 (Tue Jul 31 18:21:35 2018)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Installing missing dependencies...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) yarn-1.9.2-1

Total Installed Size:  4.21 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                          [########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                        [########################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                             [########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                       [########################################] 100%
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:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) installing yarn                                                   [########################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found v5.0.0-beta.18.tar.gz
  -> Found franz.desktop
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    v5.0.0-beta.18.tar.gz ... Passed
    franz.desktop ... Passed
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting v5.0.0-beta.18.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Starting prepare()...
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
yarn install v1.9.2
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
info fsevents@1.1.2: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module.
info "fsevents@1.1.2" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
warning " > eslint-config-airbnb@14.1.0" has incorrect peer dependency "eslint@^3.15.0".
warning " > eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y@3.0.2" has incorrect peer dependency "eslint@^2.10.2 || 3.x".
warning " > eslint-plugin-react@6.10.3" has incorrect peer dependency "eslint@^2.0.0 || ^3.0.0".
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
[-/6] ⠐ waiting...
[6/6] ⠐ keyboard-layout
[-/6] ⠐ waiting...
[4/6] ⠐ @paulcbetts/cld
error /home/wyre/AUR/franz/src/franz-5.0.0-beta.18/node_modules/keyboard-layout: Command failed.
Exit code: 1
Command: node-gyp rebuild
Arguments: 
Directory: /home/wyre/AUR/franz/src/franz-5.0.0-beta.18/node_modules/keyboard-layout
Output:
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using node-gyp@3.7.0
gyp info using node@10.7.0 | linux | x64
gyp info spawn /usr/bin/python2
gyp info spawn args [ '/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py',
gyp info spawn args   'binding.gyp',
gyp info spawn args   '-f',
gyp info spawn args   'make',
gyp info spawn args   '-I',
gyp info spawn args   '/home/wyre/AUR/franz/src/franz-5.0.0-beta.18/node_modules/keyboard-layout/build/config.gypi',
gyp info spawn args   '-I',
gyp info spawn args   '/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/addon.gypi',
gyp info spawn args   '-I',
gyp info spawn args   '/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/common.gypi',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dlibrary=shared_library',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dvisibility=default',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_root_dir=/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_gyp_dir=/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_lib_file=/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/<(target_arch)/node.lib',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dmodule_root_dir=/home/wyre/AUR/franz/src/franz-5.0.0-beta.18/node_modules/keyboard-layout',
gyp info spawn args   '-Dnode_engine=v8',
gyp info spawn args   '--depth=.',
gyp info spawn args   '--no-parallel',
gyp info spawn args   '--generator-output',
gyp info spawn args   'build',
gyp info spawn args   '-Goutput_dir=.' ]
gyp info spawn make
gyp info spawn args [ 'BUILDTYPE=Release', '-C', 'build' ]
make: Entering directory '/home/wyre/AUR/franz/src/franz-5.0.0-beta.18/node_modules/keyboard-layout/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/keyboard-layout-manager/src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.o
In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:192,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
../../nan/nan_maybe_43_inl.h: In function 'Nan::Maybe<bool> Nan::ForceSet(v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Value>, v8::Local<v8::Value>, v8::PropertyAttribute)':
../../nan/nan_maybe_43_inl.h:112:15: error: 'class v8::Object' has no member named 'ForceSet'
   return obj->ForceSet(isolate->GetCurrentContext(), key, value, attribs);
               ^~~~~~~~
In file included from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
../../nan/nan.h: In function 'v8::Local<v8::Value> Nan::MakeCallback(v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Function>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)':
../../nan/nan.h:835:60: warning: 'v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Function>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)' is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
         v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), target, func, argc, argv);
                                                            ^
In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:172:50: note: declared here
                 NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback(
                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:88:42: note: in definition of macro 'NODE_DEPRECATED'
     __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator
                                          ^~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
../../nan/nan.h:835:60: warning: 'v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Function>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)' is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
         v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), target, func, argc, argv);
                                                            ^
In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:172:50: note: declared here
                 NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback(
                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:88:42: note: in definition of macro 'NODE_DEPRECATED'
     __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator
                                          ^~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
../../nan/nan.h: In function 'v8::Local<v8::Value> Nan::MakeCallback(v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::String>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)':
../../nan/nan.h:850:62: warning: 'v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::String>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)' is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
         v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), target, symbol, argc, argv);
                                                              ^
In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:165:50: note: declared here
                 NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback(
                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:88:42: note: in definition of macro 'NODE_DEPRECATED'
     __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator
                                          ^~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
../../nan/nan.h:850:62: warning: 'v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::String>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)' is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
         v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), target, symbol, argc, argv);
                                                              ^
In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:165:50: note: declared here
                 NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback(
                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:88:42: note: in definition of macro 'NODE_DEPRECATED'
     __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator
                                          ^~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
../../nan/nan.h: In function 'v8::Local<v8::Value> Nan::MakeCallback(v8::Local<v8::Object>, const char*, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)':
../../nan/nan.h:865:62: warning: 'v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, const char*, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)' is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
         v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), target, method, argc, argv);
                                                              ^
In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:158:50: note: declared here
                 NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback(
                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:88:42: note: in definition of macro 'NODE_DEPRECATED'
     __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator
                                          ^~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
../../nan/nan.h:865:62: warning: 'v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, const char*, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)' is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
         v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), target, method, argc, argv);
                                                              ^
In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:158:50: note: declared here
                 NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback(
                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:88:42: note: in definition of macro 'NODE_DEPRECATED'
     __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator
                                          ^~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
../../nan/nan.h: In member function 'v8::Local<v8::Value> Nan::Callback::Call_(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*) const':
../../nan/nan.h:1479:5: warning: 'v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Function>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)' is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
     ));
     ^
In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:172:50: note: declared here
                 NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback(
                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:88:42: note: in definition of macro 'NODE_DEPRECATED'
     __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator
                                          ^~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
../../nan/nan.h:1479:5: warning: 'v8::Local<v8::Value> node::MakeCallback(v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Function>, int, v8::Local<v8::Value>*)' is deprecated: Use MakeCallback(..., async_context) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
     ));
     ^
In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:172:50: note: declared here
                 NODE_EXTERN v8::Local<v8::Value> MakeCallback(
                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:88:42: note: in definition of macro 'NODE_DEPRECATED'
     __attribute__((deprecated(message))) declarator
                                          ^~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
../../nan/nan.h: In function 'void Nan::AsyncQueueWorker(Nan::AsyncWorker*)':
../../nan/nan.h:1732:62: warning: cast between incompatible function types from 'void (*)(uv_work_t*)' {aka 'void (*)(uv_work_s*)'} to 'uv_after_work_cb' {aka 'void (*)(uv_work_s*, int)'} [-Wcast-function-type]
     , reinterpret_cast<uv_after_work_cb>(AsyncExecuteComplete)
                                                              ^
In file included from ../../nan/nan.h:49,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc: At global scope:
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:537:43: warning: cast between incompatible function types from 'void (*)(v8::Handle<v8::Object>, v8::Handle<v8::Object>)' {aka 'void (*)(v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Object>)'} to 'node::addon_register_func' {aka 'void (*)(v8::Local<v8::Object>, v8::Local<v8::Value>, void*)'} [-Wcast-function-type]
       (node::addon_register_func) (regfunc),                          \
                                           ^
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:571:3: note: in expansion of macro 'NODE_MODULE_X'
   NODE_MODULE_X(modname, regfunc, NULL, 0)  // NOLINT (readability/null_usage)
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:22:1: note: in expansion of macro 'NODE_MODULE'
 NODE_MODULE(keyboard_layout_manager, KeyboardLayoutManager::Init)
 ^~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node.h:63,
                 from ../../nan/nan.h:49,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager.h:4,
                 from ../src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.cc:1:
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/v8.h: In instantiation of 'void v8::PersistentBase<T>::SetWeak(P*, typename v8::WeakCallbackInfo<P>::Callback, v8::WeakCallbackType) [with P = node::ObjectWrap; T = v8::Object; typename v8::WeakCallbackInfo<P>::Callback = void (*)(const v8::WeakCallbackInfo<node::ObjectWrap>&)]':
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/node_object_wrap.h:85:78:   required from here
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/v8.h:9402:16: warning: cast between incompatible function types from 'v8::WeakCallbackInfo<node::ObjectWrap>::Callback' {aka 'void (*)(const v8::WeakCallbackInfo<node::ObjectWrap>&)'} to 'Callback' {aka 'void (*)(const v8::WeakCallbackInfo<void>&)'} [-Wcast-function-type]
                reinterpret_cast<Callback>(callback), type);
                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/v8.h: In instantiation of 'void v8::PersistentBase<T>::SetWeak(P*, typename v8::WeakCallbackInfo<P>::Callback, v8::WeakCallbackType) [with P = Nan::ObjectWrap; T = v8::Object; typename v8::WeakCallbackInfo<P>::Callback = void (*)(const v8::WeakCallbackInfo<Nan::ObjectWrap>&)]':
../../nan/nan_object_wrap.h:66:61:   required from here
/home/wyre/.node-gyp/10.7.0/include/node/v8.h:9402:16: warning: cast between incompatible function types from 'v8::WeakCallbackInfo<Nan::ObjectWrap>::Callback' {aka 'void (*)(const v8::WeakCallbackInfo<Nan::ObjectWrap>&)'} to 'Callback' {aka 'void (*)(const v8::WeakCallbackInfo<void>&)'} [-Wcast-function-type]
make: *** [keyboard-layout-manager.target.mk:103: Release/obj.target/keyboard-layout-manager/src/keyboard-layout-manager-linux.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/home/wyre/AUR/franz/src/franz-5.0.0-beta.18/node_modules/keyboard-layout/build'
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:237:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.17.10-1-ARCH
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/wyre/AUR/franz/src/franz-5.0.0-beta.18/node_modules/keyboard-layout




==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
==> Removing installed dependencies...
checking dependencies...

Packages (1) yarn-1.9.2-1

Total Removed Size:  4.21 MiB

:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] y
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) removing yarn                                                     [########################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...

Is there a manual workaround to install this? Sometimes we can edit the build files to get it to install.

Yes, but the issue I opened was directly on the keyboard module's repo #44. They changed it to >2.7.0 which still doesn't totally solve the issue as this is only fixed in 2.8.0. At least, now the lastest version of nan should be installed by default, which solves this for most users. I am not home so I can't confirm if the build is working again or if there's other error.

@FFY00, this issue? - #1027

I am waiting for that to be fixed in the upsteam. I already opened an issue, it should be fixed anytime now.

gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: make failed with exit code: 2 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:237:12) gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.54-1-lts gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd /tmp/pamac-build-mertellx-user/franz/src/franz-5.0.0-beta.18/node_modules/keyboard-layout gyp ERR! node -v v10.6.0 gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.7.0 gyp ERR! not ok info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command. ==> ERROR: Se produjo un fallo en build().
Cancelando...

having issues building:

node_modules/keyboard-layout/build' gyp ERR! build error gyp ERR! stack Error: make failed with exit code: 2 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:237:12) gyp ERR! System Linux 4.17.4-1-ARCH gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/node-gyp" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd /tmp/yaourt-tmp-harv/aur-franz/src/franz-5.0.0-beta.18/node_modules/keyboard-layout gyp ERR! node -v v10.6.0

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... ==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build franz.

Yes, sorry. I forgot to add PKGBUILD to git again after fixing this.

The build is broken due to a typo in the PKGBUILD:

depends=(... 'libxss''gconf' ...)

should be

depends=(... 'libxss' 'gconf' ...)

as spaces are important in Bash and shell scripting in general.