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Resolving the ReferenceError: __dirname is not defined Error in Hyper Terminal on Arch Linux

If you're trying to install Hyper Terminal from Vercel on Arch Linux and encountered the error ReferenceError: __dirname is not defined, here's a solution to fix the problem.

1. Clone the Hyper Repository:

bash git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/hyper.git cd hyper

1. Modify the webpack.config.ts File:

Open the webpack.config.ts file in your preferred text editor and add the following line at the beginning of the file to define __dirname:

```typescript import path from 'path';

const __dirname = path.resolve();

// The rest of your webpack.config.ts code ```

1. Install Necessary Dependencies:

Ensure you have the necessary dependencies installed, including python-setuptools:

bash sudo pacman -S python-setuptools

1. Compile and Install Hyper:

Use makepkg with the --noextract option to ensure your code modifications are used:

bash makepkg -si --noextract

This should resolve the issue and allow you to install Hyper Terminal on your Arch Linux without errors.

If you have any further questions or need more help, feel free to ask!

@hayao, thanks for that explanation and quick fix. Changed the PKBUILD from electron20 depend to just electron, and everything worked.

Thanks.

Hyper will show some errors due to not finding some files.

electron20 which is hyper's dependency has been broken and I cannot build it successfully.

I decided to install electron20-bin instead but electron20-bin will install their libraries to /usr/lib/electron20/ but the PKGBUILD will make symlink for hyper to /usr/lib/electron.

Also I found that hyper will work with the latest electron.

Please change the path of symlink or upgrade dependency to fix the error.

I encountered errors when building this package related to node-gyp package, which can be solved by using version 9.3.1 of node-gyp instead of version 9.1.0. You can achieve this by calling e.g.:

sed --in-place 's/"node-gyp": "9.1.0"/"node-gyp": "9.3.1"/g' package.json

during prepare() step.

Hello, nodejs package may be safely moved from depends to makedepends (i.e. it is not needed for Hyper to run).

patch for building on arm:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 1f88148..7e35484 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ pkgname=hyper
 pkgver=3.3.0
 pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="A terminal built on web technologies"
-arch=('x86_64')
+arch=('aarch64')
 url="https://hyper.is/"
 license=('MIT')
 depends=('alsa-lib' 'gtk3' 'libxss' 'nodejs' 'nss')
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ prepare() {
     # delete husky install from postinstall
     sed -i 's/\ \&\& husky install//g' package.json

+    sed -i '/electron-mksnapshot/d' package.json
+    sed -i 's|yarn run v8-snapshot &&||g' package.json
+    sed -i '/cp-snapshot.js/d' electron-builder.json
+
     yarn install
 }

@@ -63,7 +67,7 @@ package() {
     _libinstall="${pkgdir}${_appdir}"

     mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin" "$_libinstall"
-    cp -R dist/linux-unpacked/* "$_libinstall"
+    cp -R dist/linux-arm64-unpacked/* "$_libinstall"

     # link the binary to /usr/bin
     cd "$pkgdir/usr/bin"

new version 3.3.0 out

The new version is out. https://github.com/vercel/hyper/releases/tag/v3.3.0

i don't understand why this was orphaned, a new stable release hasn't even been released yet. I can assure you the maintainer will probably update this package when 3.3.0 releases.

Hello! I have updated npm dependency for hyper, but I cannot manage the wayland environment patch at the moment (lack of spare time), orphaning the package for now. v3.3.0 is not stable at the moment so I cannot risk updating to it.