Package Details: gplates 2.5.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/gplates.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: gplates
Description: GPlates is a plate tectonics program. Manipulate reconstructions of geological and paleogeographic features through geological time. Interactively visualize vector, raster and volume data.
Upstream URL: https://www.gplates.org
Licenses: GPLv2
Submitter: tamamizu
Maintainer: tamamizu
Last Packager: tamamizu
Votes: 1
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2022-12-07 23:56 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-09-26 12:24 (UTC)

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tamamizu commented on 2026-04-21 20:43 (UTC)

Awesome to hear!

Kroros commented on 2026-04-21 20:15 (UTC)

@tamamizu I tried compiling from the github repo and it worked perfectly on my machine at least. Thank you very much!

tamamizu commented on 2026-04-21 17:49 (UTC)

@kroros That does indeed seem to be the issue. I tried to see if it compiles properly with boost=1.87, but it appears that there are also other other issues with the build dependencies. GPlates development is pretty slow, so this is probably going to keep happening every version because arch packages are just that much more recent. I might try to make a gplates-git package instead, since the dependencies seem to be a lot more up-to-date.

Kroros commented on 2026-04-20 09:48 (UTC) (edited on 2026-04-20 09:50 (UTC) by Kroros)

The current version fails to build with the following error 

CMake Error at /usr/lib/cmake/Boost-1.90.0/BoostConfig.cmake:141 (find_package):
  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "boost_system"
  (requested version 1.90.0) with any of the following names:

    boost_system.cps
    boost_systemConfig.cmake
    boost_system-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "boost_system" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "boost_system_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If
  "boost_system" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it
  has been installed.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/lib/cmake/Boost-1.90.0/BoostConfig.cmake:262 (boost_find_component)
  /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:610 (find_package)
  src/CMakeLists.txt:203 (find_package)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: gplates-exit status 4
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
gplates - exit status 4```

I think it's related to libboost_system.so not being included in the boost package, though I'm not sure.

wonn commented on 2025-06-24 13:27 (UTC)

Discovered the issue! It has to do with CGAL interacting weirdly with $PATH ordering - take a look at https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/issues/6823 . A workaround is to just append /usr/bin to the start of $PATH when running the program - eg PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH paru -S gplates (or however you build AUR packages).

tamamizu commented on 2025-03-21 14:48 (UTC)

Glad to have helped at least a bit. Wish I could resolve your issues. Good luck!

wonn commented on 2025-03-21 14:41 (UTC)

That seems to be functional! Thank you, and sorry for having a bunch of weird issues :P

tamamizu commented on 2025-03-21 13:35 (UTC)

In case that doesn't work, here's my binary: wget http://bashupload.com/8ouwm/gplates (available next 3 days) Should work until the dependencies become out of date. Use the .desktop file if you're on wayland

wonn commented on 2025-03-20 17:36 (UTC)

Agreed; who knows how many issues I might stumble into. It actually doesn't work any better with just make; cmake with the same arguments that work in the PKGBUILD fails with the same 'CGAL_FOUND to FALSE' error.

Might just try the out-of-date binary option instead for now.

tamamizu commented on 2025-03-20 09:55 (UTC)

Seems likely that this is going to be a game of whack-a-mole if we continue down this path :/

Does it also fail if you try to compile GPlates outside of makepkg?

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