Package Details: popular-packages 0.6.3-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/popular-packages.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: popular-packages
Description: Lists popular packages not (yet) installed
Upstream URL: https://pub-dist.s3.us-east-005.dream.io/Software/popular-packages/popular-packages.jpg
Licenses: GPL3
Submitter: Xavion
Maintainer: Xavion
Last Packager: Xavion
Votes: 19
Popularity: 0.000001
First Submitted: 2011-03-10 04:23 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-05-27 07:20 (UTC)

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Xavion commented on 2025-05-27 23:50 (UTC)

I'm not experiencing that problem here -- either yesterday or today. I've checked the diff and it looks ok: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/diff/PKGBUILD?h=popular-packages

Can you check that the downloaded source file is v0.6.3? If not, I guess there could be some teething problems with the new server (although I don't think they're using a CDN).

Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

electricprism commented on 2025-05-27 18:02 (UTC) 

  -> Found popular-packages
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    popular-packages ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
error: failed to download sources for 'popular-packages-0.6.3-1':
error: packages failed to build: popular-packages-0.6.3-1

Xavion commented on 2017-09-01 03:36 (UTC)

I've discovered that there is (now) a JSON file containing the package statistics data. Unfortunately, it's rather large and there's no (popularity) percentage attached to each package. I have mentioned this to the website's maintainer here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1733646#p1733646

Xavion commented on 2017-08-30 22:33 (UTC)

Damn, that's quite a setback! If I can't figure out a workaround, I'll try to contact the website's maintainer for assistance.

jaythespacehound commented on 2017-08-30 15:18 (UTC)

Doesn't work - I think as the package-statistics page is generated using javascript and thus wget does not receive that info.

Xavion commented on 2017-03-16 23:19 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. The problem was that Dropbox has disabled CDN-style link sharing. Fortunately, I already had a CDN attached to my domain. I have made the switch and updated the PKGBUILD accordingly.

dbarret1 commented on 2017-03-16 20:08 (UTC)

Dropbox link is down

Xavion commented on 2016-11-15 19:48 (UTC)

That conversation took place nearly four years ago. I made the requested change back then (by moving the script to Dropbox). There is therefore no need for me to use GitHub now. I won't be upset if you choose not to install this package as a result.

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