Arch Linux User Repository

Thank you dosenpils and masterkorp for supporting the package.

I replaced the PKGBUILD with the version I wrote for the archlinuxcn repo. I will do my best to follow the latest nodejs and electron versions.

Please try to build in a clean chroot (i.e., with extra-x86_64-build from devtools package) if you have problems building the package.

Edit: I am getting the same build error as mentioned in issue https://github.com/alfredopalhares/arch-pkgbuilds/issues/81 (No need to do a big error log paste, when its in the gh issue already)

Can confirm that this doesn't work anymore because icu was updated to 69.1, and Joplin is looking for 68.x

Edit: re-building the package fixed the error, although now I'm just getting a blank white screen.

Edit: thanks for being so quick with the update! Everything works now.

@Frogboy To get Joplin working again you need to modify the PKGBUILD file to use the electron11 package as a dependency instead of electron as I suggested in the comment below yours. Check the diff at the end of my comment.

If you apply those changes and run makepkg -si you will end up with a working application.

No longer works after upgrading Electron, even after rebuilding. This porbably needs to be updated as well.

After the electron package was upgraded in my system to version 12.x, I started getting the following error when I tried to start joplin-desktop:

$ joplin-desktop
./@joplinapp-desktop: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.68: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The version of icu I currently have installed is:

local/icu 69.1-1
    International Components for Unicode library

And the versions of electron are:

local/electron 12.0.4-2
    Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies
local/electron11 11.4.3-2
    Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies

Now that the default version of the electron package is 12.0.4, the joplin and joplin-desktop packages should probably use the electron11 package as a dependency until Joplin officially supports Electron 12.x.

I initially tried regenerating the packages with the latest electron (12.0.4-2) package but joplin-desktop would not start. To fix the issues I had to modify the electron dependency and set it to electron11. These are the changes I made to the PKGBUILD:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 0b84f90..c854958 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ pkgver=1.7.11
 groups=('joplin')
 pkgrel=2
 install="joplin.install"
-depends=('electron' 'gtk3' 'libexif' 'libgsf' 'libjpeg-turbo' 'libwebp' 'libxss' 'nodejs'
+depends=('electron11' 'gtk3' 'libexif' 'libgsf' 'libjpeg-turbo' 'libwebp' 'libxss' 'nodejs'
          'nss' 'orc' 'rsync' )
 optdepends=('libappindicator-gtk3: for tray icon')
 arch=('x86_64' 'i686')
-makedepends=('git' 'npm' 'python' 'rsync' 'jq' 'electron')
+makedepends=('git' 'npm' 'python' 'rsync' 'jq' 'electron11')
 url="https://joplinapp.org/"
 license=('MIT')
 source=("joplin.desktop" "joplin-desktop.sh" "joplin.sh"
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ package_joplin() {

 package_joplin-desktop() {
   pkgdesc="A note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities - Desktop"
-  depends=('electron' 'gtk3' 'libexif' 'libgsf' 'libjpeg-turbo' 'libwebp' 'libxss' 'nodejs'
+  depends=('electron11' 'gtk3' 'libexif' 'libgsf' 'libjpeg-turbo' 'libwebp' 'libxss' 'nodejs'
          'nss' 'orc')
   optdepends=('libappindicator-gtk3: for tray icon')
   conflicts=('joplin-desktop-electron')
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ package_joplin-desktop() {
   msg2 "Building Desktop with packaged Electron..."
   mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/joplin-desktop"
   cd "${srcdir}/joplin-${pkgver}/packages/app-desktop"
-  electron_dir="/usr/lib/electron"
-  electron_version=$(cat /usr/lib/electron/version)
+  electron_dir="/usr/lib/electron11"
+  electron_version=$(cat /usr/lib/electron11/version)
   msg2 "Using Electron Version ${electron_version}"
   USE_HARD_LINKS=false npm run dist -- --publish=never  --linux  --x64 \
     --dir="dist/" -c.electronDist=$electron_dir -c.electronVersion=$electron_version

➜ joplin-desktop ./@joplinapp-desktop: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.68: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The icu is 69 now (nice), so the repo is out of date?

I get this error while building, and it leaves several npm install processes running and maxing out my bandwidth.

==> Starting build()...
  -> npm cache directory: /home/txtsd/.cache/yay/joplin/src/npm-cache
  -> Installing dependencies through Lerna

> postinstall
> npm run bootstrap --no-ci && npm run build


> bootstrap
> lerna bootstrap --no-ci

lerna notice cli v3.22.1
lerna info versioning independent
lerna info Bootstrapping 9 packages
lerna info Installing external dependencies
lerna ERR! npm install --cache /home/txtsd/.cache/yay/joplin/src/npm-cache exited 1 in '@joplin/turndown'
lerna ERR! npm install --cache /home/txtsd/.cache/yay/joplin/src/npm-cache stderr:
npm ERR! code ERR_SOCKET_TIMEOUT
npm ERR! errno ERR_SOCKET_TIMEOUT
npm ERR! request to https://registry.npmjs.org/flat-cache/-/flat-cache-1.3.0.tgz failed, reason: Socket timeout

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/txtsd/.cache/yay/joplin/src/npm-cache/_logs/2021-04-18T07_18_49_739Z-debug.log

lerna ERR! npm install --cache /home/txtsd/.cache/yay/joplin/src/npm-cache exited 1 in '@joplin/turndown'
lerna WARN complete Waiting for 7 child processes to exit. CTRL-C to exit immediately.
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/txtsd/.cache/yay/joplin/src/joplin-1.7.11
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c npm run bootstrap --no-ci && npm run build

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/txtsd/.cache/yay/joplin/src/npm-cache/_logs/2021-04-18T07_18_49_894Z-debug.log
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
error making: joplin (joplin-desktop)

Tried to rebuild this package this morning and I'n now getting the same error reported by @trumee. Any other workaround other than installing python2?