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Hi, thanks for maintaining positron-ide-devel-bin.

I took a quick look at the current PKGBUILD while checking the upstream .deb for 2026.03.0-212, and the package does seem to work fine as-is, so first of all thank you for packaging it.

I had a few questions / possible suggestions, but please take them as tentative observations only — I may well be missing some Arch-specific/runtime issues that you already ran into and worked around.

1. Python/Jupyter dependencies I noticed the package currently declares a fairly large set of Python/Jupyter-related hard dependencies. From a quick inspection of the upstream .deb, it looks like Positron already bundles quite a bit under resources/app/extensions/positron-python/python_files/..., so I was wondering:
2. were these dependencies added because Positron actually fails on Arch without them?
3. or were they added as a conservative choice to ensure notebook/runtime features work better?

I’m asking because, from the outside, it looks like some of these might possibly be moved to optdepends, but I may be overlooking real runtime requirements.

1. A few system library mappings I also noticed atkmm in depends. My rough reading of the binary dependencies suggested the more directly relevant runtime pieces might be things like at-spi2-core, glib2, cairo, libx11, libxcb, etc. Again, I’m not sure whether the current list reflects practical testing rather than direct ELF linkage, so I wanted to ask instead of assuming.

2. /usr/bin/positron symlink In the Debian package, the postinst script creates /usr/bin/positron -> /usr/share/positron/bin/positron. I didn’t see that symlink directly in the payload, so I was wondering whether it might make sense to create it in the Arch package as well, unless there is a reason to intentionally avoid it.

3. License install I may have read this wrong, but it looked like the current PKGBUILD does not install the upstream license file into /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/. Since the upstream package includes resources/app/LICENSE.txt, I wondered if that might be worth installing for completeness.

Sorry in advance if I misunderstood any of the above. I’m mainly asking because I was comparing the upstream package layout with the PKGBUILD and wanted to better understand the design choices here.

If any of these points are useful and you’d like, I’d also be happy to test a revised PKGBUILD locally.

Thanks again.

Patch to 2026.03.0-212 https://github.com/ponte-vecchio/positron/pull/3

Patch to 2026.02.1-5: https://codeberg.org/gnoblet/positron-ide-devel-bin

That worked @danielvartan, thanks!

@rcgrosado, Positron do not rely anymore on the Copilot Language Server binary. I had to logout and login with my GitHub account to make it work again.

The latest version is giving me errors, even after downloading the latest Copilot Language Server. This one I hadn't had before:

2026-01-14 21:22:28.129 [info] Using the Electron fetcher. 2026-01-14 21:22:28.186 [error] [CopilotCLISession] Failed to load @github/copilot/sdk: TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE]: The argument 'filename' must be a file URL object, file URL string, or absolute path string. Received undefined 2026-01-14 21:22:28.187 [error] Failed to get all sessions: TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE]: The argument 'filename' must be a file URL object, file URL string, or absolute path string. Received undefined 2026-01-14 21:22:28.509 [info] FetcherService: electron-fetch failed with status: 404 2026-01-14 21:22:28.537 [info] FetcherService: electron-fetch failed with status: 404 2026-01-14 21:22:28.820 [info] FetcherService: node-fetch failed with status: 404 2026-01-14 21:22:28.845 [info] FetcherService: node-fetch failed with status: 404 2026-01-14 21:22:29.176 [info] FetcherService: node-http failed with status: 404 Not Found 2026-01-14 21:22:29.176 [info] FetcherService: node-http failed with status: 404 Not Found 2026-01-14 21:22:29.176 [warning] Invalid copilot token: missing token: 404 2026-01-14 21:22:29.178 [error] Error: Failed to get copilot token

The Copilot Language Server bundled with Positron is failing again.

I had to update it to the latest version in Positron 2025.12.0.167-1 to get Copilot working again.

If you are having this issue, try the steps in this comment: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/issues/476#issuecomment-3239580585

I experienced problems with the copilot-language-server extension file when installing 2025.10.1.4-1, which is based on Positron-2025.10.1-4-x64.deb.

Initially, I could not authenticate myself with GitHub Copilot using the Positron Assistant. I raised an question on the Positron discussion forum here: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/discussions/10027. That discussion led me to look at the copilot-language-server extension file, which was getting corrupted during the installation, though I am not sure why or how or whether I was doing something wrong.

In any case, I made a new PKGBUILD, which is available here for anyone interested: https://github.com/mark-andrews/positron-ide-archlinux-installer.

This seems to working for me now. It installed Positron without issues and I can use GitHub Copilot now and nothing else seems to be malfunctioning.

For those of you wondering about the lack of update, since 2025.09.0-139 is still bugged I have been waiting for the next release version to come out.

@produnis - This has always been the same release-based dev (and deb) binary pacakge! The dailies came later, which I do not plan on packaging.