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NOTICE: This pkgbase is now produces two packages:

• protonmail-bridge-core: Containing the core daemon & CLI program.
• protonmail-bridge: Containing the Qt desktop application.

The second package depends on the first. If you don't have a need for the desktop application, you can now choose to only install protonmail-bridge-core.

This packaging change should be seamless and no action should be required before or after the upgrade.

Thanks to @ali.molaei and @BenTheTechGuy for the feedback regarding this change!

Just having pass installed with a key set up wasn't enough for me, I had to follow this: https://pychao.com/2020/06/10/update-on-using-protonmail-bridge-on-headless-wordpress-linux-servers/

I got it working with some patches. Too big to post in this box, so here's a Proton Drive link to the whole diff: https://drive.proton.me/urls/A4Z8J54ZMC#bCIIcy35A2xs

@Antiz @ali.molaei - I agree that a warning in the pakgdesc and pinned comment here directing people to use the binary package for the time being is a good compromise. The orphan/deletion requests were filed because I was worried that people would keep using this package despite the security risks. On my machine at least it is common for protonmail-bridge to be marked as out of date even when it is completely up to date, so I had completely missed the fact that the package had not been updated for over a year (I believe this is due to pre-releases on github being treated as actual releases). I'm sure that there are others out there who would make the same mistake.

@merlinf In fact, packages are never completely removed but only "archived" instead so the comments wouldn't be gone for good.

Anyway, @ali.molaei would be great if at least the pkgdesc could warn about the actual state of the package, as well as a "WARNING" pinned comment to, at least, make sure people are not misled to this package for the time being, as well as preventing useless orphan/deletion requests (you can state that in the said comment).

I'm refusing the current deletion request ;)

@Antiz It is evident that multiple people want this package to work again and that the maintainer @ali.molaei is very active and responded within the same day.

I believe that the existence of this package in the AUR gives our efforts to fix it some discoverability and may attract someone that does get it working.

If this package really needs to get deleted I propose that @ali.molaei move the repo to one of the major hosts and create a backup of the comments there and then pin a comment on the binary repo to call for support on this package.

@yochananmarqos yes that is the exact same error. It doesn't happen in one of my local nspawn containers which gives me hope that it is fixable, but I needed a break from the constant building so I couldn't figure out why that is.

I cannot make it work, it complains about some QML Components not being installed (But I believe they are) so I'm out of ideas _(--)/

UPDATE: I am able to build the package now, but the built binary is not run able (I think because of some wrong build environment variables etc). I'm now trying to build it in an isolated environment with just qt6 present to see what's the result.

Beside this update, I was thinking there are some valuable comments and information here that would be a shame to be lost with deletion of this package, what's your opinion about one of these solutions:

1. I can add a big warning to be printed in the terminal when installing this package to warn people about the state of this package and which alternatives they have

2. I can make this package a decoy to install protonmail-bridge-bin for now

3. A pinned comment here explaining the situation

@Antiz @yochananmarqos @merlinf @usenetuser

BTW, I'm still working on this, sorry it takes time, it takes time to build it each time I change something

@merlinf: Ah, the set-qt-dir.patch does the trick.

My WIP PKGBUILD is similar and sounds like I'm seeing the same error:

-- Installing: /build/protonmail-bridge/src/proton-bridge/cmd/Desktop-Bridge/deploy/linux/lib/libQt6QmlCore.so.6.6.0
+ check_exit 'install failed'
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
mv "/build/protonmail-bridge/src/proton-bridge/bridge" "/build/protonmail-bridge/src/proton-bridge/cmd/Desktop-Bridge/deploy/linux/bridge"
cp -pf ./dist/bridge.svg cmd/Desktop-Bridge/deploy/linux/logo.svg
cp -pf ./LICENSE cmd/Desktop-Bridge/deploy/linux/
cp -pf ./Changelog.md cmd/Desktop-Bridge/deploy/linux/
cp -pf ./dist/proton-bridge.desktop cmd/Desktop-Bridge/deploy/linux/
mv proton-bridge cmd/Desktop-Bridge/deploy/linux/
mv: cannot stat 'proton-bridge': No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:134: cmd/Desktop-Bridge/deploy/linux] Error 1

@ali.molaei Alright, sure. Thanks a lot for your efforts!
Hopefully you can manage to get it working :)

Let's wait for your input, I remain available if needed!