Package Details: itch 1:1.14.0-3

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/itch.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: itch
Description: The best way to play itch.io games.
Upstream URL: https://github.com/itchio/itch
Licenses: MIT
Submitter: FrozenCow
Maintainer: FrozenCow (vrav, fasterthanlime, josefnpat)
Last Packager: fasterthanlime
Votes: 80
Popularity: 1.73
First Submitted: 2015-12-14 22:23
Last Updated: 2018-12-17 18:04

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fasterthanlime commented on 2020-01-03 12:22

Note: the version number of this package doesn't correspond to the version number itch reports.

This package tracks itch-setup versions, which always installs the latest itch. Please don't flag this package as out-of-date, it isn't :)

014 commented on 2019-12-20 03:23

I just want to say thank you for packaging and maintaining the itch.io client.

fasterthanlime commented on 2019-03-18 08:31

Not sure why I forgot to comment here, but I've updated that PKGBUILD a while ago to use the official itch installer. The checksums verify that the installer matches upstream, and you get the latest itch app from the itch CDN.

xananax commented on 2018-10-09 07:56

I personally don't care much how it's done, but it's just a little bit bothersome to have one package out of my normal workflow. I format a lot of machines and always install itch (❤), I would like to continue being able to just add it to the list that I pipe to my package manager.

Since I do not care about the internals, and only about the surface, I'm fine with a package that just runs the installer.

Aanok commented on 2018-09-21 10:29

I think it would be more sustainable to just download and run the installer, taking care of Arch-specific env variables and packaging conventions (install dir etc, assuming they apply at all, I have not looked into it).

If there is (and there is projected to be for a while) manpower enough to do both things like ainola suggests, that would naturally be the best of both worlds :)

fasterthanlime commented on 2018-09-17 07:40

Hey Arch users, itch v25 has finally released, and it comes with its own installer program: https://itch.io/app

I'm not sure what do about this package. I've crafted a .deb package that just installs the installer, https://github.com/itchio/itch-setup along with a few .desktop files, for shortcuts.

One option would be to have the AUR package compile itch-setup and set up the .desktop shortcuts, like the .deb package does. You can see the .deb building logic here: https://gist.github.com/fasterthanlime/2b1aa571bf7b680be2da13359bdb5c08

Another option would be to have the AUR package just download the latest itch-setup binary from https://broth.itch.ovh/itch-setup - this way the package wouldn't have to depend on a Go toolchain. It would just have the dependencies required to have the app run (no python, no grunt, no npm - just the few X and gtk libs).

What do you think of those options?

ainola commented on 2018-09-16 22:25

Hi, FrozenCow - Do you have any plans on updating this package? As it stands it does not build without manual intervention. If you are not interested in maintaining, I would be willing to take over.

Thanks!

WhyNotHugo commented on 2018-08-21 04:30

Dependency nodejs-grunt-cli no longer exists. Looks like it's now nodejs-grunt.

fasterthanlime commented on 2018-05-01 10:32

I've just released v23.6.3, which should build cleanly on a fully-upgraded Arch. Let me know if you still have issues.

fasterthanlime commented on 2018-04-30 20:35

It appears the package for v23.6.2 just won't build if you have a recent enough nodejs installed (and this is Arch, so everybody has the latest node).

I'll look into releasing v23.6.3 tomorrow that depends on a more recent node-sass, even though there's absolutely nothing changed in v23.6.2 for Linux (see changelog: https://github.com/itchio/itch/releases/tag/v23.6.2 )