The Woes of an Arch Linux User

[nyx]

As an Arch Linux User you get used to pokerth breaking every 4th or 5th time you do a system update. Today I can't even rebuild it from the AUR. I so wish it was in the core repos. I'm running pokerth in a VM using debian at the moment until I can find a solution. I love Arch but I hate the AUR.

Anyone else out there with these problems?

https://ody.sh/x3qcURI65V

[sp0ck]

You might tryout the flatpak build - it's more update safe:

https://flathub.org/apps/net.pokerth.PokerTH

there also exists a snap build:

https://snapcraft.io/pokerth

[nyx]

Thanks sp0ck, yes I've tried the flatpak build but essentially I need something that can be started from the terminal like thus -

QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.6 pokerth

so that I can get the window which the game runs in to a comfortable size.

Not sure about snaps but my favourite linux content creators tell me to stay away from them! Saying that I assume it will be the same problem.

I shall pursue the AUR maintainer in good time, somebody called blacktav and see if I can get a fix there.

[sp0ck]

I shall pursue the AUR maintainer in good time, somebody called blacktav and see if I can get a fix there.

Do that - it's propably a newer protobuf or libboost version after an Arch Update. The client source code needs to be patched a liitle - like the maintainer of the AUR package did here before: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ ... ?h=pokerth

about the flatpak:

check this - https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... k-applicat

.... you can also use flatseal for that: https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

[sp0ck]

Btw. ... I just saw in the comments of the AUR site that the AUR maintainer already seems to be on it/planning it:

blacktav commented on 2024-12-09 09:44 (UTC)

Bumped for updated libs