Package Details: openboard 1.7.3-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/openboard.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: openboard
Description: Interactive whiteboard software for schools and universities
Upstream URL: http://openboard.ch/index.en.html
Licenses: GPL3
Submitter: fsiegert
Maintainer: fsiegert (bartus, Vekhir)
Last Packager: fsiegert
Votes: 54
Popularity: 0.066627
First Submitted: 2016-12-06 14:42 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-12-19 12:07 (UTC)

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bartus commented on 2024-03-12 15:41 (UTC) (edited on 2024-03-13 09:39 (UTC) by bartus)

Since version v1.7.0 the Qt5 backend is no longer actively maintained and supported.
Control environment variable can be used to force build against qt5
  • ENABLE_QT5=1 to build against qt5 (default:off)
Usage cases:
  • makepkg ENABLE_QT5=1
  • yay -S openboard --mflags="ENABLE_QT5=1"
Yay users warning:

If you want to build against qt5, you have to call pacman -S qt5-{base,declarative,multimedia,tools,svg,webchannel,webengine} beforehand.

fsiegert commented on 2023-01-16 12:04 (UTC)

@unphysicalix: That's correct, you have to rebuild after dependency packages are updated. Let me make this post sticky to avoid people running into this again and again.

If OpenBoard stops working and when starting it from the command line you get an error message of the type:

openboard: error while loading shared libraries: *.so.1.1: cannot open shared object

Then you most likely just need to rebuild OpenBoard (either with makepkg or with your favourite AUR helper) because a dependency package has been updated.

(That's the one disadvantage of AUR packages. I don't know what the threshold is for the package to be migrated into the community repository instead.)

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chilledfrogs commented on 2019-04-10 09:38 (UTC) (edited on 2019-04-10 09:40 (UTC) by chilledfrogs)

@bartus I will try and see what happens :)

It sure does look like it, and I tried to use gdb but admittedly I'm not incredibly experienced with it; the reason why I'm asking for help here and not on OpenBoard's GitHub is the fact that they don't seem to care too much for any distro apart from Ubuntu, which is in my view a bit stupid, but hey...

bartus commented on 2019-04-09 15:37 (UTC) (edited on 2019-04-09 15:38 (UTC) by bartus)

@chilledfrogs, You should try building with options=(debug !strip) added to your PKGBUILD. Gether output from gdb openboard and report your findings upstream. It looks like a memory leak, which is an abundant issue throught openboard code.

fsiegert commented on 2019-04-09 10:57 (UTC)

Thanks @bartus, I have included the 218.diff patch from upstream.

For the increase of fps of the podcast stream I would ask you to take the discussion upstream.

@postblue Thanks for the heads-up, I have fixed the desktop symlink issue. For the i18n I'm not doing anything manually, but just follow the canonical OpenBoard installation. So if that's not working, it would be good to discuss this with the OpenBoard developers.

@chilledfrogs I'm afraid I don't know why this crash happens. Obviously, it doesn't happen to me.

bartus commented on 2019-04-08 18:13 (UTC)

Also, could we have a patch to increase fps of the podcast stream ...

https://pastebin.com/B7qHjw9p

bartus commented on 2019-04-05 10:35 (UTC) (edited on 2019-04-05 20:00 (UTC) by bartus)

There is a problem with src/podcast/podcast.pri which calls Ubuntu specific command lsb_release. It's a conditional that test for ffmpeg version above 2.8.

patch: https://github.com/OpenBoard-org/OpenBoard/pull/218.diff

Also depends is missing qt5-xmlpatterns

chilledfrogs commented on 2019-02-07 18:34 (UTC)

I'm still having the exact same crash on launch, could anyone please help me? I have no idea even where to start...

postblue commented on 2019-01-25 08:33 (UTC)

I just went through the update to 1.5.2. I noticed that /usr/share/applications/openboard.desktop appears to be a broken symlink to a file in the building directory (using pikaur, I would have to try with makepkg as I don't see where this behaviour might come from reading the PKGBUILD).

postblue commented on 2018-12-27 03:05 (UTC) (edited on 2018-12-27 03:22 (UTC) by postblue)

There is a problem with the handling of i18n. Using GNOME, my locale is fr_FR (UTF8) and I set App/PreferredLanguage=fr in .local/share/OpenBoard/OpenBoardUser.config. I first thought the locale file was not found, but I found out by opening the .deb that the .ts files in /opt/openboard/i18n should be .qm ones. Is it possible that the translation files are not compiled?

chilledfrogs commented on 2018-12-24 18:53 (UTC) (edited on 2018-12-31 16:14 (UTC) by chilledfrogs)

Really sorry to bother, but this package still fails on launch for me and I really have no clue why. When I launch it from the terminal, here is the output (before promptly crashing):

sAppSettings location:  "/opt/openboard/etc/openboard.config"
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
free(): invalid pointer

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I was hoping the latest build would fix it but no dice...

fsiegert commented on 2018-12-16 22:39 (UTC)

Thanks @madprog, I have added this patch, and taken the opportunity to update the package to version 1.5.1.

Best, Frank

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