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For whom it may concern: this package depends on Shiftkey's linux support fork, located at https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/

I check this regularly for releases. If you want the newest version, I suggest you check out github-desktop-git and modify the PKGBUILD to use the base repository, with the understanding that the application takes a significant amount of RAM to build.

I had a problem with the login. After I pressed the "login with browser" button. The Auth site popped up then it redirected me to the github dektop app, but it is loaded for ever. And it gave me this in logs :

2022-02-24T13:20:23.655Z - info: [ui] [AppStore] loading 0 repositories from store 2022-02-24T13:20:23.733Z - info: [ui] launching: 2.9.9-linux2 (Linux 5.16.7-1-MANJARO) 2022-02-24T13:20:23.733Z - info: [ui] execPath: '/opt/github-desktop/github-desktop' 2022-02-24T13:20:34.366Z - info: [ui] [SignInStore] initializing OAuth flow 2022-02-24T13:20:34.372Z - info: [main] opening in browser:https://github.com/login/oauth/authorizeclient_id=3a723b10ac5575cc5bb9&cope=repo%20user%20workflow&state=ea08f013-6a55-4440-886f-d6d570ff4f1c 2022-02-24T13:20:36.422Z - info: [main] Received possible protocol arguments: 4 2022-02-24T13:20:36.422Z - info: [main] Processing protocol url 2022-02-24T13:20:36.423Z - warn: [ui] Unknown URL action: unknown - payload:{"name":"unknown","url":"--enable-crashpad"}

System: Manjaro 21.2.3

Tried browsers:

Vivaldi Chromium I tried these two AUR packages, they both produced the same problem: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/github-desktop-bin https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/github-desktop

Update: Tried Versions: (github-desktop-bin) 2.9.0 worked 2.9.6 worked 2.9.9(1) NOT worked 2.9.9(2) NOT worked

Solution: If you login in the 2.9.6 version and then you install the 2.9.9 ver. The system remembers you and you can use the 2.9.9 verson. (Just don't logout, because you can't log back in the 2.9.9 ver)

@fanninpm Be that as it may, org.freedesktop.secrets can work perfectly under my test.

@daregakimeta It was added in explicitly as a dependency. C.f. https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/issues/180

Does this really require gnome-keyring? If it only needs org.freedesktop.secrets, this should probably be adjusted since e.g. keepassxc does provide org.freedesktop.secrets as well.

@RabbitLime are you sure you aren't trying to install the github-desktop package? This one just downloads a .deb and extracts a pre-fabricated executable.

The package is broken, build error. ==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree ==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory... ==> Starting build()... yarn install v1.21.1 [1/5] Validating package.json... [2/5] Resolving packages... [3/5] Fetching packages... info fsevents@2.2.1: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module. info "fsevents@2.2.1" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation. info fsevents@2.1.3: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module. info "fsevents@2.1.3" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation. info fsevents@1.2.13: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module. info "fsevents@1.2.13" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation. info dmg-license@1.0.9: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module. info "dmg-license@1.0.9" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation. info iconv-corefoundation@1.1.6: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module. info "iconv-corefoundation@1.1.6" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation. [4/5] Linking dependencies... [5/5] Building fresh packages... $ ts-node -P script/tsconfig.json script/post-install.ts yarn install v1.21.1 [1/4] Resolving packages... [2/4] Fetching packages... [3/4] Linking dependencies... [4/4] Rebuilding all packages... [-/7] ⠂ waiting... [2/7] ⠂ detect-arm64-translation [3/7] ⠂ @shiftkey/dugite [6/7] ⠂ registry-js error /home/bunny/.cache/yay/github-desktop/src/github-desktop/app/node_modules/detect-arm64-translation: Command failed. Exit code: 1 Command: prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild Arguments: Directory: /home/bunny/.cache/yay/github-desktop/src/github-desktop/app/node_modules/detect-arm64-translation Output: prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=3 runtime=napi arch=x64 libc= platform=linux) gyp info it worked if it ends with ok gyp info using node-gyp@8.2.0 gyp info using node@17.1.0 | linux | x64 gyp info find Python using Python version 3.9.9 found at "/usr/bin/python3" gyp info spawn /usr/bin/python3 gyp info spawn args [ gyp info spawn args '/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py', gyp info spawn args 'binding.gyp', gyp info spawn args '-f', gyp info spawn args 'make', gyp info spawn args '-I', gyp info spawn args '/home/bunny/.cache/yay/github-desktop/src/github-desktop/app/node_modules/detect-arm64-translation/build/config.gypi', gyp info spawn args '-I', gyp info spawn args '/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/addon.gypi', gyp info spawn args '-I', gyp info spawn args '/home/bunny/.cache/node-gyp/11.5.0/include/node/common.gypi', gyp info spawn args '-Dlibrary=shared_library', gyp info spawn args '-Dvisibility=default', gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_root_dir=/home/bunny/.cache/node-gyp/11.5.0', gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_gyp_dir=/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp', gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_lib_file=/home/bunny/.cache/node-gyp/11.5.0/<(target_arch)/node.lib', gyp info spawn args '-Dmodule_root_dir=/home/bunny/.cache/yay/github-desktop/src/github-desktop/app/node_modules/detect-arm64-translation', gyp info spawn args '-Dnode_engine=v8', gyp info spawn args '--depth=.', gyp info spawn args '--no-parallel', gyp info spawn args '--generator-output', gyp info spawn args 'build', gyp info spawn args '-Goutput_dir=.' gyp info spawn args ] gyp: name 'openssl_fips' is not defined while evaluating condition 'openssl_fips != ""' in binding.gyp while trying to load binding.gyp gyp ERR! configure error gyp ERR! stack Error: gyp failed with exit code: 1 gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:353:16) gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:390:28) gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:290:12) gyp ERR! System Linux 5.15.6-arch2-1 gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild" gyp ERR! cwd /home/bunny/.cache/yay/github-desktop/src/github-desktop/app/node_modules/detect-arm64-translation

error Command failed with exit code 1. info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command. ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting...

Just to add here I am getting a weird issue when pushing. I find nothing happens unless I click on a different window and then back to github desktop, after which it runs instantly. Edit: seems to be the same issue https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/issues/508

@hwittenborn: That is fine. I have already my scripts to handle simple version bumps, these work for this package too.

@Jake I can get a script going, but I'm not interested much in co-maintaining this at the moment as I'm busy with some other things.

If you'd like an auto-update script or something, let me know and I can get that going, but that would probably be the limit of my abilities to help.

release-2.8.1-linux2 is now the latest version. Is this getting an update anytime soon?

release-2.7.1-linux1 is now available is this being updated soon?

@immackay any chance this can get updated? If you need a co-maintainer I'd be more than willing to put some time in. I might be able to get a script going that auto-updates it too if you'd want that.

The gconf dependency is no longer needed and now has trouble compiling with the latest release.

@mlerota I have the same slow commit experience you mention. I did find that if I click the "Fetch Origin" button during this waiting I can get the commit to finish instantly.

Anyone having problems with slow commit? Version 2.5.3 works OK, but after that when you click "commit" it takes 45-120 seconds to finish.

I built this package with the gconf dependency removed from the PKGBUILD and it runs just fine. It is included in the upstream Debian package, but the author appears to be unsure whether it is actually needed:

https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/blob/linux/script/package-debian.ts

The upstream RPM does not have the gconf dependency either.

If any of you are having trouble compiling gconf, run this:

sudo pacman -S gtk-doc gobject-introspection gnome-common

Is it possible to install this in armhf or arm64 (Raspberry Pi)?

As Elanzer pointed out the PKGBUILD needs to be updated because the binary is one directory deeper. I guess this is the problematic line: printf "#!/bin/sh\n\n/opt/${_pkgname}/github-desktop \"\$@\"\n" | install -Dm755 /dev/stdin "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}" Where the actual binary location is /opt/github-desktop/github-desktop/github-desktop The other way around is to manually replace the symlink to said bianry.

I had to update /usr/bin/github-desktop script to /opt/github-desktop/github-desktop/github-desktop "$@", because it was pointing to the directory.

Is gnome-keyring actually needed? Because GitHub Desktop just starts even if I enter a wrong keyring password.

gnome-keyring is an optional dependency on the non-bin version but a required one here?

Attempting to run yields

[11378:0304/135030.607839:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(157)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /opt/github-desktop/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
/usr/bin/github-desktop: line 3: 11378 Trace/breakpoint trap   (core dumped) /opt/github-desktop/github-desktop "$@"

Addressed by running

cd /opt/github-desktop
sudo chown root chrome-sandbox 
sudo chmod 4755 chrome-sandbox

For whom it may concern: this package depends on Shiftkey's linux support fork, located at https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/

I check this regularly for releases. If you want the newest version, I suggest you check out github-desktop-git and modify the PKGBUILD to use the base repository, with the understanding that the application takes a significant amount of RAM to build.

@immackay, likely you must update your .SRCINFO, cause yay is giving me a warning about my github-desktop-bin version is newer than AUR

Should change line 29 of PKGBUILD to:

printf "#!/bin/sh\n\nLD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libcurl-openssl-1.0.so /opt/${_pkgname}/github-desktop \"\$@\"\n" | install -Dm755 /dev/stdin "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}" }

@immackay: Thanks for creating this package. I've updated it to the latest build here https://gist.github.com/friday/e29a91956619e3520c34caa0ace4e4a7.

@immackay, it works now! No "Segmentation faults" any more. I tested both. github-desktop-bin and github-desktop latest versions (1.3.4-1).

Thanks for fixing this.

@mlerota, do you have any way of reproducing that error? I have not been able to so far.

EDIT: I have removed the LD_PRELOAD line as github-desktop depends on libcurl-gnutls now, as far as I can tell. Previously there was no explicit support for linux.

Have the same problem on https://aur.archlinux.org/github-desktop.git

/usr/bin/github-desktop: line 3: 24454 Segmentation fault (core dumped) LD_PRELOAD=libcurl.so.3 /opt/github-desktop/desktop "$@"

And /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3 is owned by libcurl-compat 7.61.0-1.

/usr/bin/github-desktop: line 3: 15580 Segmentation fault (core dumped) LD_PRELOAD=libcurl.so.3 /opt/github-desktop/desktop "$@"

This is on a completely fresh install of Arch. Not sure if I should report this upstream or if this is a packaging issue.