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@jeyes https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot

If people are having issues, try building with extra-x86_64-build in a clean chroot.

Try to add params '--init --recursive --remote' behind 'submodule update' in line 89. Worked for me.

Building the package fails at prepare():

Submodule path 'pdfjs/pdf.js': checked out 'cb447cb9182cc027e536893535e73ad1bc0816b1'
Submodule 'pdf.js' (https://github.com/zotero/pdf.js.git) registered for path 'pdf.js'
Cloning into '/home/adam/.cache/yay/zotero/src/zotero-client/pdf-worker/pdf.js'...
done.
fatal: git upload-pack: not our ref 95d08fe7707553c23ce9f9c90371622a7aeb591f
fatal: remote error: upload-pack: not our ref 95d08fe7707553c23ce9f9c90371622a7aeb591f
fatal: Fetched in submodule path 'pdf.js', but it did not contain 95d08fe7707553c23ce9f9c90371622a7aeb591f. Direct fetching of that commit failed.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: zotero-exit status 4
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
zotero - exit status 4

IMO there is no need to package the updater. I'd recommend to disable it. That would also avoid problems with git-lfs.

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index d15f950..607589c 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ arch=('x86_64' 'i686')
 url="https://github.com/zotero/zotero"
 license=('AGPL-3.0-or-later')
 depends=('dbus-glib' 'gtk3' 'nss' 'libxt')
-makedepends=('npm' 'git' 'git-lfs' 'zip' 'unzip' 'perl' 'python>=3' 'curl' 'wget' 'rsync' 'nodejs')
+makedepends=('npm' 'git' 'zip' 'unzip' 'perl' 'python>=3' 'curl' 'wget' 'rsync' 'nodejs' 'patch')
 _tag=88ff06841605a2812394060ef4fd3194702d50e0  # git rev-parse $pkgver
 source=("zotero.desktop"
         "zotero-client::git+https://github.com/zotero/zotero.git#tag=${_tag}"
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ source=("zotero.desktop"
         "zotero-csl::git+https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales.git"
         "zotero-libreoffice-integration::git+https://github.com/zotero/zotero-libreoffice-integration.git"
         "zotero-pdf-js::git+https://github.com/zotero/pdf.js.git"
-        "zotero-epub-js::git+https://github.com/zotero/epub.js.git")
+        "zotero-epub-js::git+https://github.com/zotero/epub.js.git"
+        "disable_updater.patch")
 sha256sums=('eab76db7a56a4d9aaa17baaf240b82fcf57944a4ddf8ef1b58cc64182426cedc'
             'SKIP'
             'SKIP'
@@ -39,7 +40,8 @@ sha256sums=('eab76db7a56a4d9aaa17baaf240b82fcf57944a4ddf8ef1b58cc64182426cedc'
             'SKIP'
             'SKIP'
             'SKIP'
-            'SKIP')
+            'SKIP'
+            '876ada619be5f1122437e105bb70cec20de1cf43fb533e7bb7b9bf6ff1f7deae')

 pkgver() {
   cd "$srcdir/zotero-client"
@@ -49,9 +51,7 @@ pkgver() {
 prepare() {
   cd "$srcdir/zotero-client"

-  git lfs install --local
-  git remote add network-origin https://github.com/zotero/zotero.git
-  git lfs pull -I app/linux/updater.tar.xz network-origin
+  patch -p1 < ../disable_updater.patch

   npm i --legacy-peer-deps

diff --git a/disable_updater.patch b/disable_updater.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5f86f07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/disable_updater.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+diff --git a/app/build.sh b/app/build.sh
+index d4046ac6b..b7f2b0b8b 100755
+--- a/app/build.sh
++++ b/app/build.sh
+@@ -886,9 +886,9 @@ if [ $BUILD_LINUX == 1 ]; then
+       cp "$CALLDIR/linux/set_launcher_icon" "$APPDIR"
+       
+       # Use our own updater, because Mozilla's requires updates signed by Mozilla
+-      check_lfs_file "$CALLDIR/linux/updater.tar.xz"
+-      tar xf "$CALLDIR/linux/updater.tar.xz" --to-stdout updater-$arch > "$APPDIR/updater"
+-      chmod 755 "$APPDIR/updater"
++      #check_lfs_file "$CALLDIR/linux/updater.tar.xz"
++      #tar xf "$CALLDIR/linux/updater.tar.xz" --to-stdout updater-$arch > "$APPDIR/updater"
++      #chmod 755 "$APPDIR/updater"
+ 
+       # Copy app files
+       rsync -a "$base_dir/" "$APPDIR/"
+diff --git a/app/linux/mozconfig b/app/linux/mozconfig
+index 8e7fa5cf8..5e2720318 100644
+--- a/app/linux/mozconfig
++++ b/app/linux/mozconfig
+@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ ac_add_options MOZ_ENABLE_JS_DUMP=1
+ ac_add_options MOZ_ENABLE_FORKSERVER=
+ ac_add_options MOZ_TELEMETRY_REPORTING=
+ ac_add_options MOZ_DATA_REPORTING=
++ac_add_options --disable-updater
+ ac_add_options --disable-tests
+ ac_add_options --disable-debug
+ ac_add_options --disable-debug-symbols

Eventually git-lfs should be a buildtime dependency because it is.

@agkphysics My apologies! I just found out that textmaker don't support zotero 7 yet and it's better not to update until they fix it. They have an english and a german support forum and they hide this info within a german thread where no one can find it. sorry

@no_gafam The LibreOffice plugin should be located at /usr/lib/zotero/integration/libreoffice/Zotero_LibreOffice_Integration.oxt. I have not used textmaker and so cannot help you there.

If anyone runs into the following error, the solution is to run git lfs uninstall to remove the git lfs filters from the global ~/.gitconfig.

Error downloading object: app/linux/updater.tar.xz (d7e9c81): Smudge error: Error downloading app/linux/updater.tar.xz ...

latest update 7.0.0-1 messed up compatibility with textmaker nx. it does not even come with the necessary "libreoffice integration" plug in like the old version 6.0.37. I still haven't figured out how to fix this and get zotero working with textmaker nx again.

Hello! Please add git-lfs to makedepends, without it build failed for me with:

==> Extracting sources...
  -> Creating working copy of zotero-client git repo...
Cloning into 'zotero-client'...
done.
git-lfs filter-process: line 1: git-lfs: command not found
fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'

==> ERROR: Failure while creating working copy of zotero-client git repo