Package Details: vvvvvv 2.4.3-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/vvvvvv.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: vvvvvv
Description: A retro-styled 2D platformer
Upstream URL: https://thelettervsixtim.es/
Licenses: custom
Groups: humblebundle3, humblebundle4, humblebundles
Submitter: gadget3000
Maintainer: ejona86
Last Packager: ejona86
Votes: 35
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2011-07-26 19:28 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-06-19 17:57 (UTC)

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KiyoNetcat commented on 2026-06-21 20:38 (UTC)

seems like it's able to download now, nice! wonder why it happened in the first place tho...

ejona86 commented on 2026-06-10 23:24 (UTC)

Hmmm... Looks like there's not much that can be done about the download problem. Nobody else is permitted to distribute it, and the CDN now has the JS challenge we're seeing so many places due to obusive AI crawling.

KiyoNetcat commented on 2026-06-09 08:22 (UTC)

fyi this package fails to build because of a failure when downloading data20221117.zip:

  -> Downloading data20221117.zip...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed  Time    Time    Time   Current
                                 Dload  Upload  Total   Spent   Left   Speed
  0      0   0      0   0      0      0      0                              0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 415
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://thelettervsixtim.es/makeandplay/data.zip
    Aborting...
error: failed to download sources for 'vvvvvv-2.4.3-1':
error: packages failed to build: vvvvvv-2.4.3-1

seems that the endpoint is protected by some sort of javascript challenge, curling it results in:

<html>
<head><title>415 Unsupported Media Type</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>415 Unsupported Media Type</h1></center>
<hr><center>openresty/1.29.2.3</center>
</body>
</html>

exponential commented on 2024-01-17 09:40 (UTC)

i just noticed the first zip is the whole thing.

their release is a confusing mess. If you build from the other two archives without the modules, you indeed need to manually hunt down the commits in the git repos in order to avoid been like a -git package.

ejona86 commented on 2024-01-16 15:33 (UTC)

@exponential, I built from a clean chroot with makechrootpkg. The zip has the third_party packages. If you are having trouble with third_party, try deleting src/VVVVVV before building. This is from a github release; it isn't like a -git package.

exponential commented on 2024-01-16 08:45 (UTC)

lol, you didn't even try to compile it. naughty naughty.

They made a total mess with this release. You have to manually download the statically linked libs your self and copy them in the right folders. And of course you need to download the git version just to be sure that it will brake.

just copy from here, it has frozen commits so that it doesn't randomly brakes like a git package. (that's for debian, you can't blindly copy paste everything) https://mpr.makedeb.org/packages/vvvvvv

abouvier commented on 2022-07-11 02:12 (UTC)

You should replace make by cmake --build . to be generator agnostic.

chrisjbillington commented on 2021-09-28 06:55 (UTC) (edited on 2021-09-28 06:58 (UTC) by chrisjbillington)

I tried my hand at it, this works (basically combining your PKGBUILD and the one from the -git package):

PKGBUILD: https://pastebin.com/YhfCewnH

LICENSE-data: https://pastebin.com/raw/DRxXegc5

(the latter including the note as written on https://thelettervsixtim.es/makeandplay/)

The user is bound by the license regardless of what is printed to the terminal, so I don't see that an .install adds anything. Putting the conditions as given by Terry in a LICENSE-data file as you've been doing seems fine to me. That is the info the author has provided on what you're allowed to do, so that's what we've got to work with. If it's not sufficient then printing it to the terminal as well I don't think adds anything!

ejona86 commented on 2021-09-28 05:48 (UTC)

The icon in data.zip looks good. Huh. makeandplay's data.zip is the same as the one in the -bin. That means we don't actually need the -bin. I had assumed it was a cut-down version. That means this can become more similar to vvvvvv-git. I'll try and rework it this weekend; I'd do it now, but I really want to avoid a .install so I need to dig in a bit more.

chrisjbillington commented on 2021-09-28 05:28 (UTC) (edited on 2021-09-28 05:29 (UTC) by chrisjbillington)

Ah I see. I didn't clean-build since using vvvvvv-10202016-bin myself, so it worked after removing it from the sources array, and I mistakenly thought it wasn't needed!

data.zip contains an icon VVVVVV.png you might use, it's not the same as what you're using now but it's what vvvvvv-git uses for its icon.

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