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All,

Remember, please vote for this pkg if you find it useful!

I have updated this AUR pkg so it can be installed in parallel with musescore4.

Note that this has NOT been extensively tested for regressions. Right now it's a Works-For-Me.

If you run into any problems please post a comment so I receive a notice, or contact me directly. HTH :)

P.S.: Since MuseScore has moved on from ver. 3, there will almost certainly be no upstream maintenance releases for this. I'll try to look around to see if anyone forks ver. 3.6.2 in order to maintain it. Please contact me if you know of a good and active fork.

Edit: In the very long run, the only way to keep this working may be via an AppImage. I didn't realize (until I looked) that official AppImage releases are available for download from the MuseScore github site. If you wish to download ver. 3.6.2 to "archive" for future use, please go to:

https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/releases/tag/v3.6.2

At the bottom of the page under "Assets" you can find an AppImage. (NB: I haven't tried it.)

Clemmitt

@ Antonius,

I'm very pleased that this pkg can help you! :) And any others who, like me, need to use Musescore and find that the new revision doesn't allow us to follow an efficient workflow.

Clemmitt

Works alongside Musescore4 now, great for whenever Musescore4 feels like breaking older files! Thank you!

@klarkc,

This afternoon (US Eastern time 2023-04-19) I updated my system fully. Then I saved the original musescore3 .pkg. file and rebuilt it via my AUR helper. In testing old and new .pkg. files, both work fine using qt pkg qt5-base 5.15.9+kde+r151-1, which is now installed.

Perhaps you need to rebuild and reinstall your musescore3 pkg? I am clearing the out-of-date flag. If you continue to have problems, please post a comment on this page so I am notified :) HTH!

Clemmitt

All,

This pkg was flagged out of date by klarkc:

Your package musescore3 [1] has been flagged out-of-date by klarkc [2]:

Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (5.15.8) with this library (5.15.9)

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/musescore3/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/klarkc/

I will aim to look at this early this coming week. Hopefully it isn't a fatal problem for Musescore3 building against Qt5.

Clemmitt

All,

In the last couple of days I am noticing a text input hesitation/freeze problem with the "Save As..." dialog (among others). And a lot of GLib-GIO-CRITICAL warnings are thrown:

(mscore3:44602): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 12:33:12.901: GFileInfo created without standard::is-hidden
(mscore3:44602): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 12:33:12.901: file ../glib/gio/gfileinfo.c: line 1587 (g_file_info_get_is_hidden): should not be reached
(mscore3:44602): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 12:33:12.901: GFileInfo created without standard::is-backup
(mscore3:44602): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 12:33:12.901: file ../glib/gio/gfileinfo.c: line 1609 (g_file_info_get_is_backup): should not be reached

Perhaps there is an issue with the recent glib2 update?... Dunno. Please post here if you know more or have a fix. Thx :)

Clemmitt

@kiasoc5,

PKGBUILD updated, but on my box this doesn't eliminate the dependency breakage. It does, however, build for me in a clean chroot....

I believe it's necessary to do the remove musescore3/upgrade system/reinstall musescore3 dance to solve the dependency conflict. I think this cropped up because portmidi changed upstream back to the original source. This caused a huge difference in version numbers so an epoch number had to be specified(?).

Sorry I can't solve this with my PKGBUILD :\ Thx again :)

Clemmitt

@kiasoc5,

Thank you for the heads-up! I didn't pay any attention to the three .so files listed as dependencies when I cribbed this PKGBUILD from the last one provided for ver. 3. In fact, I'm not sure why they are listed rather than their pkgs:

portmidi; portaudio; libvorbis

I am surprised by "breaks dependency 'libportmidi.so=1-64' required by musescore3", because the libportmidi.so dependency doesn't specify a version. Working on a solution :) Again, thx

Clemmitt

Cannot upgrade my system:

resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing portmidi (1:2.0.4-1) breaks dependency 'libportmidi.so=1-64' required by musescore3

All,

I didn't realize (until I looked) that official AppImage releases are available for download from the MuseScore github site. If you wish to download ver. 3.6.2 to "archive" for future use, please go to:

https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/releases/tag/v3.6.2

At the bottom of the page under "Assets" you can find an AppImage. (NB: I haven't tried it.)

Apparently, the major design and functionality revisions from ver. 3 to 4 came with some amount of controversy. There was talk of a short-term continuation to a ver. 3.7 which was rejected by the project leaders. There have also been proposals to fork the ver. 3.6.2 code. Some forum threads FYI:

https://musescore.org/en/node/342126

https://musescore.org/en/node/325306

On this forum thread search to the bottom of the first page for a post by Jim Ivy:

https://musescore.org/en/node/334200

Clearly, MuseScore 3 is abandoned with final ver. 3.6.2 and there will be no further development or support.

Concerning out-of-tree development/support, there are over 2,100 forks of the MuseScore github project. Heaven only knows if any of them are good and working continuations of 3.6.2 to provide maintenance, minimal development, etc.

Again, anyone who knows of a good fork of MuseScore 3 please post a comment here. Unless there is one, the official AppImage of 3.6.2 may be the best workable long term solution. (My expectation is that future changes to Qt will break the MuseScore 3.6.2 code base, and I'm NOT a Qt expert....)

I think all of this is real a shame because -- at least to me -- the GUI of ver. 4 is just plain confusing.... It makes the routine functions I use to transcribe and edit MIDI files (for public services which I support) much more difficult, and obscure, than ver. 3. I'm afraid MuseScore is the only freely available tool which can meet my needs so I may be stuck on 3.6.2 forever... ever... (ever...) ((ever...)) ;)

Clemmitt

All,

Remember, please vote for this pkg if you find it useful!

I have updated this AUR pkg so it can be installed in parallel with musescore4.

Note that this has NOT been extensively tested for regressions. Right now it's a Works-For-Me.

If you run into any problems please post a comment so I receive a notice, or contact me directly. HTH :)

P.S.: Since MuseScore has moved on from ver. 3, there will almost certainly be no upstream maintenance releases for this. I'll try to look around to see if anyone forks ver. 3.6.2 in order to maintain it. Please contact me if you know of a good and active fork.

Edit: In the very long run, the only way to keep this working may be via an AppImage. I didn't realize (until I looked) that official AppImage releases are available for download from the MuseScore github site. If you wish to download ver. 3.6.2 to "archive" for future use, please go to:

https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/releases/tag/v3.6.2

At the bottom of the page under "Assets" you can find an AppImage. (NB: I haven't tried it.)

Clemmitt