Arch Linux User Repository

PSA: I've started hosting this and all its dependencies as prebuilt packages in my repository for those that want to install them using pacman without messing around with building from the AUR.

Required reading: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

There's no need to do make what and compile commands for aur.

I prefer to make a folder for Pkgbuilds git clone (package git link (see above...) cd (package name) makepkg (this does all the compiling for you) pacman -U packagename (this actually installs the program)

I am unable to figure out how to use Alerque's pacman db.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositories

just put this into your /etc/pacman.conf:

[alerque]
Server = https://arch.alerque.com/$arch

I'm a preacher who is 68 years old. Aur packages are source code packages thus you hav to compile them yourself.

Here are the steps I use:

If you do not have a src directory in your home directory it is a good idea to create one. mkdir src

1. click on the link Download snapshot and save the file in your src directory
2. cd src
3. tar -xzvf xiphos.tar.gz
4. cd xiphos
5. makepkg -s The -s checks for missing packages and installs those that are in the main archive. Xiphos requires some aur packages that you also have to install. One that comes to mind is: biblesync which you have to compile and install prior to building and installing xiphos.
6. sudo pacman -U xiphos-*.zst

I hope this helps you. 7.

I'm sorry to be such a noob at this (though it is what I am), I am unable to figure out how to use Alerque's pacman db. What command actually starts the process? I tried installing this following the instructions from the website, and the build simply seems to be missing a file it needs, so I came here to see if I could find a user friendly version... The pacman would be it, but I can't find what it is I actually link to in that repository. So I'm confident this is a simple thing, but I don't see the Db to link in the pacman -S command. Can someone paste what it should be here?

@joshpetit As @rev.cressy suggested sometimes when system packages (i.e. ones that come prebuilt in repositories like [extra] or [community]) are update you will need to rebuild any AUR packages that depend on them such as this one depends on ICU. I've bumped the pkgrel number to try to indicate people need to upgrade (really just rebuild) this and also rebuilt the version in my [alerque] repository, but if you built it yourself you need to rebuild yourself.

Hi joshpetit,

I had the same problem so I removed Xiphos and did a system upgrade. Then I remade Xiphos using: makepkg -f -L

-- Found icu-i18n, version 70.1

This line indicates the version of icu loaded on your computer when it is built. Thus whenever the libraries are upgraded xiphos breaks and needs to be rebuilt.

The new package built with the new icu library works great.

Hey! I received this error while trying to update my system:

:: installing icu (70.1-1) breaks dependency 'libicui18n.so=69-64' required by xiphos
 -> error installing repo packages

@caleb, done. You are now co-maintainer. I am very thankful for your help. I have been a bit absent due to some tough times that I am going through on my personal life at the moment. I apologize for the delay.

@vonpupp Would you please consider adding me as a co-maintainer to this package? I already co-maintain the -git VCS package for this along with @haawda as well as the biblesync & biblesync-git packages. You can see I recently posted some cleanup work to those packages and I would like tho update this as well. You can see what the commit notes here for details on what I would start with. There are currently quoting issues which Arch guidelines require be fixed, as well as duplicate keys and a few other oddities. Additionally the biblesync dep is fixed using its so-name. You could push that commit too, but because I am hosting prebuilt packages for this it would be nice to be able to fix things that come up in the future as well. Thanks for the consideration.

PSA: I've started hosting this and all its dependencies as prebuilt packages in my repository for those that want to install them using pacman without messing around with building from the AUR.

Cannot reproduce.

Hi. When trying to build, I get : ../src/main/sidebar.cc:31:10: erreur fatale: swmgr.h : Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type #include <swmgr.h> Build failed: -> task failed (err #1): {task: cxx sidebar.cc -> sidebar_1.o}

Some debian patches regardeing gconf applied.

Could you adapt this patch which removes gconf as a dependency?

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=912807;filename=0001-Remove-gconf-dependency.patch;msg=5

Reference:

https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/issues/918

A simple rebuild should fix this icu issue, which is not an issue at all.

Hello, I have the following error while launching xiphos: "xiphos: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.61: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Guess the recent cui upgrade broke the package dependency. Ideas to fix this? Thanks

PS. I tried this solution (changing the 59 to 61 version, which fixed the problem): https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/407473/error-while-loading-shared-libraries-libicuuc-so-59-cannot-open-shared-object/408316#408316

Guess we want to update the definition/depedency of xiphos to icu 62 version now.

icu was installed (it's a core package).

The problem was that I had sword-svn installed. Installing sword fixed it.

Caleb, I am co-Maintainer myself. I think I cannot add you, maybe vonpupp can?

craeckie, pacman -Fs will tell you.

@haawda Thanks. It looks like the problem is actually that I had an old version of it, and it wouldn't update because the current gtkhtml4 AUR package is broken, and has been for some time. It looks like only gtkhtml4-git is working. I know it would be weird to declare a -git package as a dependency to a stable on, but at least maybe on the xiphos-git package I would recommend that.

By the way if you all want extra hands on cleanup and updates I'd be happy to help co-maintain.

I'm getting this error:

[132/133] cxx_link: build/default/src/examples/marshal_1.o build/default/src/examples/xiphos-nav_1.o -> build/default/src/examples/xiphos-nav
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libicui18n.so.61, needed by /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../lib/libsword.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libicuuc.so.61, needed by /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../lib/libsword.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libicudata.so.61, needed by /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../lib/libsword.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libicuio.so.61, needed by /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../lib/libsword.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../lib/libsword.so: undefined reference to `ubidi_setPara_61'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../lib/libsword.so: undefined reference to `u_shapeArabic_61'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../lib/libsword.so: undefined reference to `vtable for icu_61::UnicodeString'
...
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../lib/libsword.so: undefined reference to `unorm_normalize_61'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Waf: Leaving directory `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-nobody/aur-xiphos/src/xiphos-4.1.0/build'
Build failed:  -> task failed (err #1): 
    {task: cxx_link locale_set_2.o,marshal_2.o,about_modules_2.o,about_sword_2.o,about_trans_2.o,about_xiphos_2.o,bibletext_2.o,bibletext_dialog_2.o,bookmark_dialog_2.o,bookmarks_menu_2.o,bookmarks_treeview_2.o,cipher_key_dialog_2.o,commentary_2.o,commentary_dialog_2.o,dialog_2.o,dictlex_2.o,dictlex_dialog_2.o,display_info_2.o,dummy_2.o,export_bookmarks_2.o,export_dialog_2.o,find_dialog_2.o,font_dialog_2.o,gbs_2.o,gbs_dialog_2.o,gui_2.o,ipc_2.o,main_menu_2.o,main_window_2.o,menu_popup_2.o,mod_mgr_2.o,navbar_book_2.o,navbar_book_dialog_2.o,navbar_versekey_2.o,navbar_versekey_dialog_2.o,navbar_versekey_editor_2.o,navbar_versekey_parallel_2.o,parallel_dialog_2.o,parallel_tab_2.o,parallel_view_2.o,preferences_dialog_2.o,search_dialog_2.o,search_sidebar_2.o,sidebar_2.o,sidebar_dialog_2.o,splash_2.o,tabbed_browser_2.o,treekey-editor_2.o,utilities_2.o,xiphos_2.o,gs_stringmgr_1.o,module_manager_1.o,sword_main_1.o,slib-editor_1.o,link_dialog_1.o,biblesync_glue_1.o,configs_1.o,display_1.o,export_passage_1.o,global_ops_1.o,lists_1.o,main_1.o,mod_mgr_1.o,module_dialogs_1.o,modulecache_1.o,navbar_1.o,navbar_book_1.o,navbar_book_dialog_1.o,navbar_versekey_1.o,parallel_view_1.o,prayerlists_1.o,previewer_1.o,search_dialog_1.o,search_sidebar_1.o,settings_1.o,sidebar_1.o,sword_1.o,sword_treekey_1.o,tab_history_1.o,url_1.o,xml_1.o,marshal_1.o,xiphos_html_1.o,marshal_1.o,wk-html_1.o -> xiphos}

Which package provides libicuuc.so.61? Is a dependency missing?

caleb, you miss gtkhtml4. yay should find and install it, as our PKGBUILD declares it as dep.

This PKGBUILD currently doesn't build for me. Could it be missing some dependencies? The ./configure step seems to not find a couple things:

...
Check for program glib-mkenums           : /usr/bin/glib-mkenums
Check for program dbus-binding-tool      : /usr/bin/dbus-binding-tool
Check for program docbook2man            : not found
Check for program xml2po                 : /usr/bin/xml2po
Check for program xsltproc               : /usr/bin/xsltproc
Check for program strip                  : /usr/bin/strip
Checking for dbus-glib-1 >= 0.60         : ok
Checking for libgtkhtml4                 : fail
Checking for GtkHTML Editor 4.0          : fail
/home/caleb/.cache/yay/xiphos/src/xiphos-4.1.0/wscript:350: error: the configuration failed (see '/home/caleb/.cache/yay/xiphos/src/xiphos-4.1.0/build/config.log')                                 
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

Upstream says it will not work. Xiphos 4.1.0 needs biblesync 1.2.0 and sword 1.8.1.

Any xiphos later than 4.1.0 (i.e. xiphos-git) will need biblesync 2.0.0 or newer (i.e. biblesync-git).

Not sure why this happened...however, Xiphos quit running with biblesync-git. I don't recall updating it to 2.0, but I must have. I removed the "<=2.0.0" from the biblesync dependency and Xiphos built fine and seems to run. I don't actually use, or know how to use, the Biblesync functions so I can't test those specifically.

Great! Thanks, QuimaxW! I did it and it worked.

For the old PKGBUILD, the "easy" way (there's probably a better one...) click "Track Changes" on this page and you'll see the old git commits.

I'm sorry for upsetting the delicate balance... QuimaxW seem to have understood my problem well. I'm not a developer and don't know some of the things you guys take for granted. I know how to make an AUR package and even how to tinker with the PKGBUILD to some extent, but obvioulsy, not on nearly the same level as a developer and package maintainer. Like you've both mentioned it was not hard to find the old 4.0.7 source code, and I've even managed to make an installable packge out of it, but since I've not the original 4.0.7 PKGBUILD, I've had to tweak the 4.1.0 PKGBUILD and SKIP the integrity check since I did not know where to find the right checksums. Thank you both for your help and patience.

@AlmostArctic - You'll need the older PKGBUILD & the older source. The older PKGBUILD is in the aur git, you'll have to dig a bit to find it. The older source is on the github for xiphos, just scroll down to old releases. They are all out there, just dig around.

My suggestion though is to work with the current version. haawda has done a great job of keeping the packages current, and you'll find the best support for the current versions.

AlmostArctic, we are not here to held you hand for almost everything. You can download the old sources probably from the internet. A search engine will help you.

But if we really should help you, you should at least try to find the reason, why the build fails for you, and post error messages.

Xiphos builds fine here.

Thanks QuimaxW! However, I've not kept the 4.0.7 source and now 4.10.0 fails to build. How can I get the older source?

For the libicui18n.so.60 error, icu was updated to version 61.1 recently. Rebuild the xiphos package after updating and it'll relink to the proper library.

Obviously xiphos 4.1.0 is out. But it needs sword 1.8.1, where we have sword 1.7.4 in the repos.

I can only guess what error you get as you do not provide error messages, but if you have a recent version of biblesync from git installed, it is probably too new for stable xiphos.

So either use th stable version of both components or the git versions, don't mix.

There have been some incompatible changes in biblesync's git repo for the upcoming xiphos 4.1.0.

The new updates broke Xiphos again. :-(

I'm getting the error:

xiphos: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.60: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any suggestions? I've tried to build it again but could not.

Thank you for the work-around. It is great to have this program back!

haawda, thank you, installing enchant1.6 and then gtkhtml4-git beforehand worked! Would you know why pacman didn't know to automatically build those before trying to install xiphos?

PS I'm so happy I can use xiphos again, thank you!

1. the PKGBUILD has gtkhtml4-git as dep.
2. gtkhtml4-git provides gtkhtml4, so installing gtkhtml4-git before xiphos should also work.
3. installing enchant1.6, gtkhtml4 (without -git) and xiphos works for me also.

I just tried installing again - it still has gtkhtml4 (not the git version) as a dependency so still fails to build...

I have changed gtkhtml4 to gtkhtml4-git due to the enchant issues. Now it seems to work.

laurentrepond: same here, but this is not a error in xiphos but in gtkhtml4.

Just tried to install it. I installed enchant1.6 but building of gtkhtml4 fails with the message: No package 'enchant' found

Oh, nice. I did not see that one when I uploaded enchant1. I filed a deletion request for the broken, duplicate one.

Enchant1 from AUR is broken, but enchant1.6 works. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/enchant1.6

The recent update of enchant in the Arch Linux repose broke the build of xiphos. Build and install enchant1 from AUR as a workaround.