Package Details: plover 5.3.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/plover.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: plover
Description: Free and open source real-time stenography engine
Upstream URL: https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/
Keywords: stenography
Licenses: GPL2
Submitter: Pyrrha
Maintainer: aqwek
Last Packager: aqwek
Votes: 6
Popularity: 0.003446
First Submitted: 2016-01-07 07:50 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-05-08 06:30 (UTC)

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aqwek commented on 2026-05-08 06:32 (UTC)

Pip does not allow installation of plugins; this is a known bug and is being worked on.

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M108 commented on 2026-05-25 20:28 (UTC) (edited on 2026-05-25 20:47 (UTC) by M108)

Seem to be getting a permissions error when trying to start Plover immediately after installing. Was able to fix this by logging out completely and starting a new session. Not sure if that's intended behavior or not

2026-05-25 16:27:45,701 [MainThread] INFO: another instance is running, sending `focus` command
Unexpected error: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/plover/scripts/main.py", line 155, in main
    controller.send_command("focus")
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/plover/oslayer/controller.py", line 81, in send_command
    self._send_message(("command", command))
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/plover/oslayer/controller.py", line 74, in _send_message
    conn = connection.Client(self._address, self._family, authkey=self._authkey)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 552, in Client
    c = SocketClient(address)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.14/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 689, in SocketClient
    s.connect(address)
    ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

aqwek commented on 2026-05-08 06:32 (UTC)

Pip does not allow installation of plugins; this is a known bug and is being worked on.

linguini commented on 2026-04-15 14:52 (UTC)

Linking here: https://github.com/opensteno/plover/issues/1840

This package currently doesn't allow installation of plugins due to pip conflicts with the system's externally managed environment.

appetrosyan commented on 2025-03-02 13:19 (UTC)

python-pytest-xvfb (check) is no longer available, and the package is no longer installable.

gllt commented on 2024-10-09 02:42 (UTC)

python-pytest-xvfb is missing. Is python2-pytest-xvfb the correct replacement? This affects the git version of this package as well.

eclairevoyant commented on 2023-05-15 00:02 (UTC)

updated to plover 4; ensure to back up your plover 3 config before updating.

MarsSeed commented on 2022-06-07 13:17 (UTC)

Package broken. Suggest update to 4.0.0.dev11 (or whatever is the latest versioned tag) from here, or delete package and use plover-git.

Charon77 commented on 2021-06-23 13:45 (UTC)

It seems this is broken due to missing python2-pyserial

bpierre commented on 2020-01-05 11:36 (UTC)

And python2-xlib... I've updated the PKGBUILD to use python2-cython-hidapi. AUR has python2-xlib (but the PKGBUILD is broken). At this point, it's better to use plover-git anyway.

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