| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/whatsapp-for-linux.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | whatsapp-for-linux |
| Description: | An unofficial WhatsApp desktop application for linux |
| Upstream URL: | https://github.com/eneshecan/whatsapp-for-linux |
| Keywords: | messaging whatsapp |
| Licenses: | GPL3 |
| Submitter: | xeco |
| Maintainer: | bordam (AutoUpdateBot) |
| Last Packager: | AutoUpdateBot |
| Votes: | 56 |
| Popularity: | 3.05 |
| First Submitted: | 2020-09-09 15:32 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-04-26 08:01 (UTC) |
@hmayer not really. Since using AUR in the first place has dependency to have base-devel installed (quote #1: "1. Ensure base-devel is installed."; quote #2: "2.1 Prerequisites
First, ensure that the necessary tools are installed by installing base-devel; this meta package has make and other tools needed for compiling from source, listed as dependencies. Note: Packages in the AUR assume that base-devel is installed in the build environment.").
Which incidentally has pkgconf included.
Missing pkgconf dependency
Issues with nvidia. I had to edit the desktop file to run as
Exec=env WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 whatsapp-for-linux %u
Now it seems to be fine.
For thoose who get error like this
whatsapp-for-linux[1331]: (whatsapp-for-linux:1325): libenchant-WARNING **: 09:01:00.472: broker.vala:159: Error loading plugin: libnuspell.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
whatsapp-for-linux[1331]:
whatsapp-for-linux[1331]: (whatsapp-for-linux:1325): libenchant-WARNING **: 09:01:00.473: broker.vala:159: Error loading plugin: libvoikko.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
whatsapp-for-linux[1331]:
whatsapp-for-linux[1331]: (whatsapp-for-linux:1325): libenchant-WARNING **: 09:01:00.474: broker.vala:159: Error loading plugin: libhspell.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
whatsapp-for-linux[1331]:
whatsapp-for-linux[1331]: (whatsapp-for-linux:1325): libenchant-WARNING **: 09:01:00.480: broker.vala:159: Error loading plugin: libaspell.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
You can try to install libvoikko, hspell, nuspell, hunspell, aspell via:
sudo pacman -Syyu libvoikko hspell nuspell hunspell aspell
I get no way to log into the service on one of my machines, the app just starts "blank" https://i.imgur.com/DWVilFc.png I even nuked the .config entry.
Fiddling with the UI elements does nothing to get like a login prompt.
I only get two types 2 messages when running it from cli
libenchant-WARNING **: 13:00:52.005: broker.vala:159: Error loading plugin: libnuspell.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
TIMESTAMP: AcceleratedSurfaceDMABuf was unable to construct a complete framebuffer
Manipulating the window is also incredible slow compared to any other windows
On KDE/Plasma successfully built with webkit2gtk-imgpaste but doesn't start with an error of
whatsapp-for-linux: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.74: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Normally in an up to date system, icu75 (core/icu and multilib/lib32-icu) is installed. Solution is to build icu74 and install alongside icu75. More here
I have the same issue as deemon described
==> Validating source files with b2sums...
whatsapp-for-linux ... NOT FOUND
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
This package consistently and continually sucks up ~2/3rds of a core's time and copious amounts of virtual memory (~100GB after 10 days of uptime) on my modern Intel laptop, draining my battery. The Webkit process seems to be the issue. Is there a known solution?
missing PKGCONF dependency
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xeco commented on 2022-09-28 21:43 (UTC) (edited on 2022-09-28 21:45 (UTC) by xeco)
For anyone who wants to make raw image data pasting work as mentioned here, please use webkit2gtk-imgpaste as the dependency.