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@Koo is the download still an issue? Maybe a problem with github?!?

Your other problem is a mismatch with the installed version protobuf and an older pokerth; you do need to rebuild pokerth with the newer protobuf version. If the download had worked before you would have been sorted

1 aur/pokerth 2.0.6-1 -> 2.0.6-2

curl: (33) HTTP server does not seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume. ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://github.com/pokerth/pokerth/archive/refs/tags/v2.0.6.tar.gz Aborting... -> error making: pokerth-exit status 1 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required: pokerth - exit status 1

And now won't start.

pokerth_client: error while loading shared libraries: libprotobuf.so.33.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

1 extra/protobuf 34.1-1 (3.7 MiB 17.9 MiB) (Installed)

@lufalas has released a new version - 2.0.6 - which seems to be working well!

Please let us know if you have any issues:

• the pokerth_qml-client is non-functional at present - it is not finished yet

• if you experience problems with being ejected from the server for an unsupported version (e.g. 2.0); make sure you do not have an old client kicking around somewhere

Bump to 51 to rebuild with latest boost libs

Still some transient behaviour with the remote server that can result in unusual results: failed connections and temporary login retries. To-date, nothing specific seems to clear these issues: if you do find something, please share it here. It does seem to sort itself out eventually and once connected, remains stable enough.

This latest version 50 does build fine and by & large seems to work OK. However, I have experienced some unreliable behaviour when the remote server cannot be reached for an Internet game.

I suspect this current build is tickling some transient behaviour with the remote server and can result in some unusual results: failed connections and temporary login retries. To-date, nothing specific seems to clear these issues: if you do find something, please share it here.

It does seem to sort itself out eventually and once connected, remains stable enough.

Thanks to the finger-pointing of #benoliver999 and a huge assist from #jlocash, we now have a functional build plan again.

This latest version has required the deployment of a supporting github instance; this is probably a temporary device will I figure some long-term solution.

Because so many issues have developed of late due to the age of the original 1.1.2 release which is now triggering deprecations in associated code (boost, QT amongst others) it is becoming increasingly difficult for PokerTH to age gracefully.

The recommended solution by the PokerTH team is to use a jailed version of the original source code and locked versions of dependencies such as boost & QT: such as that made available for flatpak.

If you prefer to use flatpak (rather than limping along with this AUR release):

1 install flatpak with pacman or whatever

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/flatpak/

2 then head over to https://flathub.org/apps/net.pokerth.PokerTH

to find out how to deploy and run a "stable" version of pokerth

@benoliver999 thanks for the link; if this builds OK I may move to this repo

Some possible progress here https://github.com/Hains/pokerth/tree/boost-187