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How about DLAGENTS=('https::/bin/true') in the PKGBUILD and manually curl and verify checksum in prepare()?

@kb8doa what exactly doesn't work for you? It shouldn't be that hard :). You have scrt-sfx-9.7.0-3761.ubuntu24-64.x86_64.deb downloaded from VanDyke already? To test the process manually, which is still easy enough. Put scrt-sfx-9.7.0-3761.ubuntu24-64.x86_64.deb in for example ~/tmp/ Put PKGBUILD in ~/tmp/ (you can download it from this page top right) Go with your terminal to cd ~/tmp/. Execute makepkg -s to create the package and then install with sudo pacman -U scrt-sfx-opt-bin-9.7.0-3761-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst. If you use this package, it will end up at /opt/scrt-sfx-opt-bin/scrt-sfx-9.7.0-3761.ubuntu24-64/bin/SecureCRT for example.

@kazaii "Hm, it still can't find the file. Did you copy it from your home ( ~/ ) to your cache?"

Yes I did. Still failing the same way... It has been several years now that I have been trying to get this thing installed. Thank You to those here who have assisted. I am curious if anyone has gotten this to work. I remember back a few years ago - this script actually worked.

Should I protest to VanDyke to say that there is no way to install their software onto Manjaro/Arch because of the "distribution of binary" restrictions that the public has to follow on their software that requires a license key (which I have paid for)???

This is insanity...

@oech3 this DLAGENTS approach doesn't seem to work. DLAGENTS is only mentioned together with makepkg.conf. And I didn't get the impression that it does much in a PKGBUILD. The only way I could make it work was by applying the patch.

--- PKGBUILD    2025-09-28 18:49:38.205933272 +0200
+++ PKGBUILD.bkp        2025-09-28 18:49:19.443959955 +0200
@@ -21,10 +21,17 @@
 _bundle_name=scrt-sfx
 _tarball_base_name=${_bundle_name}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.ubuntu24-64
 _tarball_name=${_tarball_base_name}.x86_64.deb
+_pid="scrt_sfx_ubuntu2464_deb_${pkgver//./}"
+_source_url="$(curl \
+                 -L -X POST \
+                 --data "pid=${_pid}" \
+                 --data "country=us" \
+                 --data "export_check=accept" \
+                 --data "agree=on" \
+                 https://www.vandyke.com/cgi-bin/download_1.php \
+                 -o ${_tarball_name})"

-source=(
-       "file://${_tarball_name}"
-)
+source=("${_tarball_name}::${_source_url}")

 sha512sums=(
        "b019354b57a67a5ce9bedac713e3a33116875a5be14387aaa1274ae5732168d946327da50c361d1b55bc3b1892820181a858bb98e2889bd9f4ec9486481e83ed"

but this fetches the source code at some point at the beginning when PKGBUILD is sourced, because of $(curl ...). Even when I'm just creating the .SRCINFO. An option, but not so nice. At the moment the PKGBUILD stays the way it is.

You can try to edit DLAGENT at PKGBUILD: curl -L -X POST -d "pid=scrt_sfx_ubuntu2464_deb_962" -d "country=us" -d "export_check=accept" -d "agree=on" https://www.vandyke.com/cgi-bin/download_1.php -o scrt_sfx_ubuntu2464.deb

@oech3 Pinning to https://www.vandyke.com/cgi-bin/download_form_1.php?pid=scrt_sfx_ubuntu2464_deb_962 doesn't work for me. I still get the page to select the country and acknowledge the export control statement to then press the download button.

I won't remove the shipped Qt dynamic libraries. The whole reason I initially maintained this version, was because Arch was pulling ahead of Ubuntu and the linked Qt5 system libraries no longer worked. This way there is at least a chance with setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I'll add your suggested Qt6 dependencies and remove the obsolete ones on the next release.

Thanks for your suggestions!

You can drop icu74 and buldled Qt6 with qt6-{base,multimedia,5compat} (without dirty symbol hack) by

rm -rv usr/lib/scrt-sfx/{libQt6*,lib,plugins}

under bsdtar -xf

qt5-base could be removable.

Pin https://www.vandyke.com/cgi-bin/download_form_1.php?pid=scrt_sfx_ubuntu2464_deb_962 if automatic DL is impossible.

file:// is not needed.

Hm, it still can't find the file. Did you copy it from your home ( ~/ ) to your cache?

cp ~/scrt-sfx-9.6.1-3491.ubuntu24-64.x86_64.deb ~/.cache/yay/scrt-sfx-opt-bin/