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I did some further digging and now have a fully working iboview installation on my System.

If you don't want to work through the three changes I commented on the 17th of October 2025 (last comment), you can easily get the software from GitHub from the KoehnLab/iboview repo (https://github.com/KoehnLab/iboview). The readme of the GitHub repo just gives instructions on how to install with Ubuntu and with OpenSUSe but it works almost the same with Arch. Either you already know how to do this or you can use ChatGPT.

The trick that got rid of my blackscreen is to get the xorg-xwayland package and start iboview with the following line: QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb QT_OPENGL=desktop iboview. Idk what this all does but it works. I'll be working a bit with the software. If errors occur then I'll post again here but if everything works, you won't hear from me again here.

Installing IboView from this source needs three changes. 1) Last comment of MarsSeed (the blas-openblas thingy) 2) remove the make distclean line in the PKGBUILD 3) patch a line in /src/ibo-view.20150427/src/IboView/IvOrbitalFile.cpp (I followed the guide in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Patching_packages). The original line is: struct FGaussFnCmp { bool operator () (ct::FAtomShellPtr const &pA, ct::FAtomShellPtr const &pB) { and this needs to be changed to: struct FGaussFnCmp { bool operator () (ct::FAtomShellPtr const &pA, ct::FAtomShellPtr const &pB) const { You can find the line by searching for FGaussFnCmp in the IvOrbitalFile.cpp.

Without those two changes, I get an error during makepkg -sic. ChatGPT proposed those two fixes.

I got my IboView now installed and starting up. However I can't visualize Molecules with it. Only Blackscreen. Could be possible, that the patch is not working as intended (only makes the install possible but hinders the rendering of the molecules). Help is apprechiated :)

Please check the changes around Arch openblas and blas-openblas. You might need to switch depends from openblas to blas-openblas. Arch openblas package is incomplete, only blas-openblas carries the full OpenBlas Lapack suite.

Background:

Arch announced on June 14, 2023 a new blas-openblas repo package, which finally offers the full suite of OpenBLAS Lapack, with their blas implementation and corresponding cblas/lapacke interfaces.

Hi,

unfortunately the package build does not work for me. It always throws the following error at me: "make: *** No rule to make target 'distclean'. Stop. ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting..."

Is there any way to fix that?

Thanks @caltlgin, have updated the PKGBUILD