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I'm not really using this package anymore, as I migrated to use https://gitlab.com/aar642/shadow-repackaged directly, but I don't want to change the upstream AppImage to shadow-repackaged as this may disrupt other users of this repo. I will continue to update the PKGBUILD until someone else wants to take over.

Finally got my issue resolved. None of the packages that got pinned after I unsubscribed helped. (although they motivated me to resubscribed and try again) I reached out to shadow support and said that they officially support Ubuntu but I couldn't get that working in a VM. (which was true) The person who responded directed me to a repo that helped a lot. https://gitlab.com/aar642/shadow-repackaged

In my case my issue was you can't run plex and shadow at the same time and once I stopped the plex service it worked like a charm. (Note: the Stable version over there didn't work for me but the Beta and Alpha work fine as well the package in this repo. @tionis I highly recommend pinning the link to that gitlab as it has a bunch of possible issues listed with workarounds for a lot of the popular branches. (Arch among others)

Some notes:

Some dependencies may be required and were reported by other users. They are not in PKGBUILD because I personally haven't had any issue running Shadow without these packages. I need more users' reports to confirm they are really required before putting them into PKGBUILD. So please try the following dependencies if you encounter errors, and please report here if these dependencies do resolve your errors.

1. libldap24 from AUR
2. net-tools
3. xdg-utils
4. flatpak

@pychuang you're right, oddly I had a really old version of yq installed. I just reinstalled and now it works, thanks.

@fabiofalci I couldn't reproduce the error. Not sure if this is relevant, but what shell are you using?

Also, can you try the following test and see if it gives any error?

$ curl -L https://storage.googleapis.com/shadow-update/launcher/prod/linux/ubuntu_18.04/latest-linux.yml -o shadow-tech-meta.yml
$ echo "$(yq -r .sha512 shadow-tech-meta.yml)"

(You may need to install yq first if it's not available on your machine.)

@pychuang

I'm getting this error when installing this package:

:: Checking for conflicts...
:: Checking for inner conflicts...
[Aur:1]  shadow-tech-5.0.996-2

:: Downloaded PKGBUILD (1/1): shadow-tech
  1 shadow-tech                              (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 
:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: shadow-tech
==> Making package: shadow-tech 5.0.996-2 (Mon 13 Sep 2021 05:31:44 PM BST)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading shadow-tech-meta.yml...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   370  100   370    0     0   4111      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  4157
  -> Downloading shadow-tech-5.0.996.AppImage...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  191M  100  191M    0     0  5239k      0  0:00:37  0:00:37 --:--:-- 5305k
  -> Found shadow.sh
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    shadow-tech-meta.yml ... Skipped
    shadow-tech-5.0.996.AppImage ... Skipped
    shadow.sh ... Passed
==> Making package: shadow-tech 5.0.996-2 (Mon 13 Sep 2021 05:32:22 PM BST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found shadow-tech-meta.yml
  -> Found shadow-tech-5.0.996.AppImage
  -> Found shadow.sh
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    shadow-tech-meta.yml ... Skipped
    shadow-tech-5.0.996.AppImage ... Skipped
    shadow.sh ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
==> Starting prepare()...
2021/09/13 17:32:22 unknown command "shadow-tech-meta.yml" for "yq"
base64: invalid input
sha512sum: 'standard input': no properly formatted SHA512 checksum lines found
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...
error making: shadow-tech

@bigjimlefou Thanks! I got it. I added xxd to makedepends.

@pychuang xxd is included with vim or gvim. But xxd-standalone should also work. By default on Manjaro, of you type xxd without having it, installing vim or gvim will be proposed.

@bigjimlefou I'm not sure I understand. Why is vim/gvim needed by shadow-tech? Thanks!

@pychuang thanks for this package. There is just a missing dependency for xxd(vim or gvim)

@LinuxLoverForeve No problem! Awesome to hear the error message is gone!

@pychuag

Thanks so much for becoming the new maintainer of this repo. Among the other versions of shadow installs in the aur this is the only one that works on my system despite the error message I used to get about it not being able to update. The fix you did made that error go away. Thanks so much I even reached out to shadow support about the issue only for them to tell me after showing them the CLI error in a screenshot that they didn't have the staff to support Linux issues. (Ironic I know) Needless to say thanks a ton. :D

I overhauled the dependencies and PKGBUILD. Please let me know if any dependencies are missing and the package is not working on your machine.