Package Details: scid_vs_pc 4.27-3

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/scid_vs_pc.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: scid_vs_pc
Description: Shane's Chess Information Database
Upstream URL: http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/
Keywords: chess database games
Licenses: GPL-2.0-or-later
Conflicts: scid
Submitter: archtux
Maintainer: Morn (bulletmark, zyli, fanisg, makret, controller)
Last Packager: bulletmark
Votes: 39
Popularity: 0.188743
First Submitted: 2010-12-11 20:45 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-06-28 07:02 (UTC)

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Latest Comments

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zyli commented on 2026-06-28 06:25 (UTC) (edited on 2026-06-28 06:25 (UTC) by zyli)

The author of scid-vs-pc is unreliable.

I think this is the third time he's changed the source code without updating the version number.

Currently (2026-06-25), the MD5 hash is:

0d7f2aa6a498f222e7dcfadb3598b0df

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/source/

bulletmark commented on 2026-06-18 06:06 (UTC)

@zyki, thanks, I updated the pkgrel which will force a re-download and re-build.

zyli commented on 2026-06-18 05:57 (UTC) (edited on 2026-06-18 05:58 (UTC) by zyli)

The author of Scid vs PC has updated it again (2026-06-15) without changing the version number.

It is now:

md5sum scid_vs_pc-4.27.tgz

f052c1b50c6bca83b89031fa2df4cefb scid_vs_pc-4.27.tgz

Therefore, you should either correct the PKGBUILD and .SRCINFO, or wait.

It's unclear whether the author will change anything again, as this is the third update to version 4.27 in a matter of days without changing the version number (sic!).

bulletmark commented on 2026-06-11 05:18 (UTC)

@mgd, the sourceforge download site is currently flaky.

mgd commented on 2026-06-11 05:07 (UTC)

The automatic download of scid_vs_pc-4.27.tgz did not work for me. I had to do download it manually, rename it to scid_vs_pc-4.27-1.tgz and then I could build it.

bulletmark commented on 2025-05-15 21:31 (UTC)

@bigeatie, base-devel is a required prerequisite for using the AUR.

bigeatie commented on 2025-05-15 20:44 (UTC) (edited on 2025-05-15 20:46 (UTC) by bigeatie)

which should be a dependency. Without it line 468 of the configure script

if {[catch {exec /bin/sh -c "which $var(CC)"}]}

will fail.

Tyrin.price commented on 2024-06-02 12:06 (UTC) (edited on 2024-06-02 12:08 (UTC) by Tyrin.price)

Thanks, @bulletmark ... It works now. I got this in my email from the scid-vs-pc mailing list pretty much confirming that they made changes to the tarball without changing the version:

Steve A stevenaaus@gmail.com via lists.sourceforge.net Attachments 9:53 AM (2 hours ago) to scidvspc-users

Ok, the final (hopefully) 4.25 binaries are up

bulletmark commented on 2024-06-02 03:28 (UTC)

@Tyrin.price, yes it appears the scid_vs_pc developers have once again changed the tar file but not the version. I have updated the checksum with 4.25-2 to fix this.

Tyrin.price commented on 2024-06-02 02:33 (UTC) 

scid_vs_pc-4.25-1.tgz ... FAILED

==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!

error: failed to download sources for 'scid_vs_pc-4.25-1':

error: packages failed to build: scid_vs_pc-4.25-1

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