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Hello everyone,

There was been several difficulties upgrading the Joplin due to major changes in the build system upstream.

I have finnally got version 2.6.10 working with pacthes, but remenber:

• You may need to remove your src/ folder before using this version

• The patches are still not perfect, you must say yes to a prompt

I will continue working on this later today, but its usable and stable, please remenber you can always report issues on the github repository.

Regards, Alfredo Palhares

Hello everyone,

I will be renaming the packages to its final form.

• joplin will contain the CLI application
• joplin-desktop will contain the Desktop version

Also, please for problems with the package, please open an issue on the Github repo, its really hard to provide support on the comments section, you can also email me.

If you have problems with the check() function, just run makepkg with the --nocheck flag.

Thank you for your patience. Regards, Alfredo Palhares

This package officially doesn't support aarch64 (aka. arm64), but I thought I would try building the package anyway by adding aarch64 to supported platforms. The package indeed builds without any errors, but for some reason the built binary is now amd64, even though my system definitely tells it it is aarch64. Apologies if this is out of the scope of this packge, but I would appreciate any help on fixing this.

npm ERR! semver.simplifyRange is not a function

joplin-beta 2.0.2-1 compiles successfully today

1.8.5-1 update was strange. It lasted more than 1 hour, took over 400MB and then failed. Why did it use npm and electron-builder if it's already in the system? Anyway, I had to remove it and install from snap, which uses a fraction of the disk space and installed in ca. 2 minutes.

Actually, sync is not working in this version for me, both CLI & GUI.

Update to 1.8.5 is straight forward:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 47e5a4e..a4e4c60 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@

 pkgbase="joplin"
 pkgname=('joplin' 'joplin-desktop')
-pkgver=1.7.11
+pkgver=1.8.5
 groups=('joplin')
 pkgrel=4
 install="joplin.install"
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ source=("joplin.desktop" "joplin-desktop.sh" "joplin.sh"
 sha256sums=('c7c5d8b0ff9edb810ed901ea21352c9830bfa286f3c18b1292deca5b2f8febd2'
             'a450284fe66d89aa463d129ce8fff3a0a1a783a64209e4227ee47449d5737be8'
             'dc1236767ee055ea1d61f10e5266a23e70f3e611b405fe713ed24ca18ee9eeb5'
-            '06fccd715cddb15e0b8ada3a44e196fc8a4b1ad4e3fec466f872f92295f5733b')
+            '9cf1072ef603383eac3f73bd6ba9cd0ef7a05c00b61b797b21659ee6f8b7e0a4')

 # local npm cache directory
 _npm_cache="npm-cache"

$ joplin-desktop 
./@joplinapp-desktop: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.68: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ pacman -F libicui18n.so
core/icu 67.1-1 [installed: 69.1-1]
usr/lib/libicui18n.so

Also, during the update 1.7.11-2 -> 1.7.11-4:

npm ERR! semver.simplifyRange is not a function
$ npm -v
7.11.1
$ semver -h
SemVer 7.3.5

==> WARNING: Package contains reference to $srcdir
usr/share/joplin-desktop/resources/app.asar

And pacman -Ql shows

joplin-desktop /usr/share/joplin-desktop/resources.pak
joplin-desktop /usr/share/joplin-desktop/resources/
joplin-desktop /usr/share/joplin-desktop/resources/app.asar
joplin-desktop /usr/share/joplin-desktop/resources/app.asar.unpacked/
joplin-desktop /usr/share/joplin-desktop/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/
joplin-desktop /usr/share/joplin-desktop/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/7zip-bin-linux/
joplin-desktop /usr/share/joplin-desktop/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/7zip-bin-linux/arm/
joplin-desktop /usr/share/joplin-desktop/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/7zip-bin-linux/arm/7za

Edit: I am getting the same build error as mentioned in issue https://github.com/alfredopalhares/arch-pkgbuilds/issues/81 (No need to do a big error log paste, when its in the gh issue already)

Can confirm that this doesn't work anymore because icu was updated to 69.1, and Joplin is looking for 68.x

Edit: re-building the package fixed the error, although now I'm just getting a blank white screen.

Edit: thanks for being so quick with the update! Everything works now.