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@friday13 @eckofox the reason compiling takes this long was qt5-webkit for me. In the aur page https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qt5-webkit there's a pinned comment linking to a precompiled package. https://sourceforge.net/projects/fabiololix-os-archive/files/Packages/ Package name is qt5-webkit-x.xxx.x etc. It's built with a clean chroot. Installing this skipped the long compiling

@eckofox:

$ time makepkg -Csf
==> Making package: remarkable 1.95-3 (Mon 18 Aug 2025 04:17:27 PM EDT)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found remarkable-1.95.tar.gz
  -> Found remarkable.install
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    remarkable-1.95.tar.gz ... Passed
    remarkable.install ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting remarkable-1.95.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
==> Tidying install...
  -> Removing empty directories...
  -> Removing libtool files...
  -> Purging unwanted files...
  -> Removing static library files...
  -> Compressing man and info pages...
==> Checking for packaging issues...
==> Creating package "remarkable"...
  -> Generating .PKGINFO file...
  -> Generating .BUILDINFO file...
  -> Adding install file...
  -> Generating .MTREE file...
  -> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: remarkable 1.95-3 (Mon 18 Aug 2025 04:17:29 PM EDT)

real    0m2.365s
user    0m1.549s
sys     0m0.939s

gtksourceview3 is very clearly a dependency explicitly identified in this package. I also cannot reproduce an issue with remarkable shuts down - without some actual details such as terminal output. Please avoid cryptic messages like this. If you would like help troubleshooting, I would need actual output from the crash, for example running remarkable -vv in a terminal, and posting the log to a pastebin like service (0x0.st, ix.io, etc.) or to https://github.com/envolution/aur/issues

correction, it worked for a while but now remarkable shuts down at one

Not something you compile quickly! (over 4 hours in my case). Seems excessive for such an application. Then upon running, reamarkable shuts down at once I fixed the issue running:

sudo pacman -S gtksourceview3

this will installs the missing dependency as per @inPhraz comment

@friday13 it's not on chaotic - I think the longest compilation time is due to the wkhtmltopdf package, which is also offered as wkhtmltopdf-bin (which doesn't need to compile)

I think it will take until 2031 to build this. It's annoying that such a small piece of software takes hours to build. I think I should use aur.chaotic.cx

@inPhraz - added, thanks for the report

I believe the package gtksourceview3 should be added as a dependency. Installing it resolved the issue for me.

Related issue

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/remarkable/remarkable.bin", line 65, in <module>
    import remarkable
  File "/usr/share/remarkable/remarkable/__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
    from remarkable import RemarkableWindow
  File "/usr/share/remarkable/remarkable/RemarkableWindow.py", line 26, in <module>
    gi.require_version('GtkSource', '3.0')
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 122, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace GtkSource not available

@simona https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=wkhtmltopdf

I'm sure there used to be a wkhtmltopdf, and I know it's possible something else may be providing wkhtmltopdf, but I can see touch and feel wkhtmltopdf-static now, while trying to get this package to a stable state.

If there is a problem I'm not aware of by doing this, I'm all ears.