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It is a rectal pain to get the camera feature working. LightBurn is compiled against gstreamer 1.16 and glib 2.64.5 (?).

Here is how i did it:

1) Extract
 gst-plugins-bad-1.16.2-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
 gst-plugins-bad-libs-1.16.2-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
 gst-plugins-base-1.16.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
 gst-plugins-base-libs-1.16.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
 gst-plugins-good-1.16.2-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
 gstreamer-1.16.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
into some custom lightburnlibs folder.

2) Extract only libgio-2.0.so* from
 glib2-2.64.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
into the lightburnlibs folder.

3) Run lightburn with
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=lightburnlibs/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH=lightburnlibs/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0 lightburn

Maybe this could be integrated into this install script or somewhere else. Took me a while to figure that out.

It is a rectal pain to get the camera feature working. LightBurn is compiled against gstreamer 1.16 and glib 2.64.5 (?).

Here is how i did it:

1) Extract
 gst-plugins-bad-1.16.2-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
 gst-plugins-bad-libs-1.16.2-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
 gst-plugins-base-1.16.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
 gst-plugins-base-libs-1.16.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
 gst-plugins-good-1.16.2-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
 gstreamer-1.16.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
into some custom lightburnlibs folder.

2) Extract only libgio-2.0.so* from
 glib2-2.64.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
into the lightburnlibs folder.

3) Run lightburn with
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=lightburnlibs/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH=lightburnlibs/usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0 lightburn

Maybe this could be integrated into this install script or somewhere else. Took me a while to figure that out.

Latest release is pushed out. Let me know if you see any issues.

Lightburn will no longer be supported on Linux. Thread here

Here is the updated PKGBUILD for 1.7.03 (changed app directory to /opt instead of /usr/share)

# Maintainer: mib <mib@kanp.ai>
pkgname=lightburn-bin
pkgver=1.7.03
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A layout, editing, and control software for lasercutters."
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://lightburnsoftware.com"
license=('unknown')
depends=('qt5-multimedia' 'qt5-serialport')
makedepends=()
provides=("${pkgname}")
conflicts=("${pkgname}")
options=('!strip')
source=('lightburn.sh' 'lightburn.desktop' "https://release.lightburnsoftware.com/LightBurn/Release/LightBurn-v${pkgver}/LightBurn-Linux64-v${pkgver}.7z")
sha256sums=('da8104be7ff99f86f92b42281bc81aef35cc05140de450d17a7fd298595f8ff8'
  'f72e86774d4396240b46e07e947edf9cdf5f8d526a70129c447fed7c173c4867'
  '09a9ad3dff40e60689079b108e687d21540cd05fd1a02e4a427a4b223926f069')

package() {
  mkdir -p "$pkgdir/opt/lightburn"
  cp -r "$srcdir/LightBurn"/* "$pkgdir/opt/lightburn"

  install -Dm755 "$srcdir/lightburn.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/lightburn"
  install -Dm644 "lightburn.desktop" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/lightburn.desktop"
  install -Dm755 "$srcdir/LightBurn/LightBurn.png" "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/lightburn.png"
}

Change the lightburn.sh to this as well:

#!/bin/sh
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb /opt/lightburn/AppRun

Here's the updated PKGBUILD:

# Maintainer: mib <mib@kanp.ai>
pkgname=lightburn-bin
pkgver=1.6.04
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A layout, editing, and control software for lasercutters."
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://lightburnsoftware.com"
license=('unknown')
depends=('qt5-multimedia' 'qt5-serialport')
makedepends=()
provides=("${pkgname}")
conflicts=("${pkgname}")
source=('lightburn.sh' 'lightburn.desktop' "https://github.com/LightBurnSoftware/deployment/releases/download/$pkgver/LightBurn-Linux64-v$pkgver.7z")
sha256sums=('80d5fa4a142fe2741f8421250d00abdd2db5b16e6641446ed85de19814a1634e'
            'f72e86774d4396240b46e07e947edf9cdf5f8d526a70129c447fed7c173c4867'
            'dddbcb51f39ccf2b110bc3aee9a407cf3989b36af0b4a02f7ebc2943854c07f3')

package() {
    mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/lightburn"
    cp -r "$srcdir/LightBurn"/* "$pkgdir/usr/share/lightburn"

    install -Dm755 "$srcdir/lightburn.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/lightburn"
    install -Dm644 "lightburn.desktop" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/lightburn.desktop"
    install -Dm755 "$srcdir/LightBurn/LightBurn.png" "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/lightburn.png"
}

@jantman, You can quickly update the PKGBUILD by changing the pkgversion to 1.6.03, run it to pull that 7z file, then run updpkgsums (install pacman-contrib if you don't have it) to update the checksums in the PKGBUILD. Then you can move on with burning things.

The 1.6.01 release has been yanked from github ( https://github.com/LightBurnSoftware/deployment/releases ) and there is now a 1.6.03 release from 3 hours ago.

Thanks for the update. Sorry to hear of your GPU issues.

@caj2ur: I've updated it to 1.6.01 :) apologies for the delay; my laptop's gpu died and it was hell to revive it.

@grodzik: in future, remember to update the SRCINFO! :) generally: 1. change PKGBUILD as needed 2. makepkg --geninteg 3. makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO

Hi. I have lightburn-bin v.1.5.06-1 installed. On start-up it announces that v.1.6.01 is available and offers to download it. Yesterday, I updated some of my .lbrn2 files on a Windows computer running the new version. When I open those files on my Arch system, it warns:

This file was saved with a newer version of LightBurn (1.6.00). It may not load correctly and resaving it could cause data loss. Continue?

I'm reluctant to directly download the update directly from Lightburn. Do we have a schedule for when v.1.6.01 will be officially available through the AUR?

Thanks.