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Hello everyone,

I will be renaming the packages to its final form.

• joplin will contain the CLI application
• joplin-desktop will contain the Desktop version

Also, please for problems with the package, please open an issue on the Github repo, its really hard to provide support on the comments section, you can also email me.

If you have problems with the check() function, just run makepkg with the --nocheck flag.

Thank you for your patience. Regards, Alfredo Palhares

@masterkorp I understand your frustration. I hope you continue maintaining the package and I really appreciate the work and time you put into this. I prefer this over flatpak, AppImage etc. and also having the CLI client.

To be honest, even though the AppImage provides a solution (I haven't tried it, just following the other comments), I must say that I'd personally consider it as the last resort.

My preference would be to have as little AppImage apps on my PC as possible, only for products that are too difficult to integrate with the system. Otherwise app management becomes too much MacOS style, which doesn't seem like Arch way of doing things.

Just to be clear, I didn't mean to complain about the package quality leaving the comment with the error message. It was just to provide some debug data or in case someone else has already faced the same problem.

I'd be happy to help if I had more experience with electron and JS.

@madjoe I only follow stable branches too, this is the cost of properly packaging stuff. That package is there if anyone needs it, but it does not provide the joppin cli client.

I honestly just want to disown this package, with some many people just demanding that stuff works out of the box, but they do not provide or help with any helpfull solution.

@Rhinoceros: Too many issues with this package. I agree, joplin-appimage simply works and besides, it only follows stable branches, which is a plus.

For anyone else unable to build this package, joplin-appimage works well as a replacement to joplin-desktop.

I updated to the most recent version and it seems that the internal editor doesn't work for both: existing notes and new ones. It seems like a known issue:

https://github.com/alfredopalhares/arch-pkgbuilds/issues/102

error /home/simona/.cache/yay/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/tools/node_modules/sharp: Command failed.
Exit code: 7
Command: (node install/libvips && node install/dll-copy && prebuild-install --runtime=napi) || (node-gyp rebuild && node install/dll-copy)
Arguments:
Directory: /home/simona/.cache/yay/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/tools/node_modules/sharp
Output:
info sharp Detected globally-installed libvips v8.12.1
info sharp Building from source via node-gyp
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using node-gyp@7.1.2
gyp info using node@17.3.0 | linux | x64
gyp info find Python using Python version 3.10.1 found at "/usr/bin/python3"
gyp ERR! UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION
gyp ERR! stack Error: Cannot find module 'request'
gyp ERR! stack Require stack:
gyp ERR! stack - /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/install.js
gyp ERR! stack - /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/node-gyp.js
gyp ERR! stack - /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js
gyp ERR! stack at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:933:15)
gyp ERR! stack at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:778:27)
gyp ERR! stack at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:999:19)
gyp ERR! stack at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
gyp ERR! stack at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/install.js:10:17)
gyp ERR! stack at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1097:14)
gyp ERR! stack at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1149:10)
gyp ERR! stack at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:975:32)
gyp ERR! stack at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
gyp ERR! stack at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:999:19) gyp ERR! System Linux 5.15.12-1-ck-generic-v3
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/simona/.cache/yay/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/tools/node_modules/sharp
gyp ERR! node -v v17.3.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v7.1.2
gyp ERR! Node-gyp failed to build your package.
gyp ERR! Try to update npm and/or node-gyp and if it does not help file an issue with the package author.

lerna ERR! yarn install --mutex network:42424 --non-interactive --cache /home/simona/.cache/yay/joplin/src/npm-cache --no-optional exited 7 in '@joplin/tools'

Slightly different problem perhaps, but I also can't build as per this GitHub issue.

The build fails with the following message (even after answering "yes" to all questions). Has anyone experienced this?

Error: Cannot find module './tools/copyApplicationAssets.js'
Require stack:
- /home/user/.cache/pacaur/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/app-desktop/gulpfile.js
- /home/user/.cache/pacaur/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/app-desktop/node_modules/gulp-cli/lib/shared/require-or-import.js
- /home/user/.cache/pacaur/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/app-desktop/node_modules/gulp-cli/lib/versioned/^4.0.0/index.js
- /home/user/.cache/pacaur/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/app-desktop/node_modules/gulp-cli/index.js
- /home/user/.cache/pacaur/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/app-desktop/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:933:15)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:778:27)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:999:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/user/.cache/pacaur/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/app-desktop/gulpfile.js:19:7)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1097:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1149:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:975:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:999:19) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/home/user/.cache/pacaur/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/app-desktop/gulpfile.js',
    '/home/user/.cache/pacaur/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/app-desktop/node_modules/gulp-cli/lib/shared/require-or-import.js',
    '/home/user/.cache/pacaur/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/app-desktop/node_modules/gulp-cli/lib/versioned/^4.0.0/index.js',
    '/home/user/.cache/pacaur/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/app-desktop/node_modules/gulp-cli/index.js',
    '/home/user/.cache/pacaur/joplin/src/joplin-2.6.10/packages/app-desktop/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js'
  ]
}
lerna info lifecycle @joplin/app-desktop@2.6.10~postinstall: Failed to exec postinstall script
lerna ERR! lifecycle "postinstall" errored in "@joplin/app-desktop", exiting 1