AUR firefox-kde and firefox-kde-opensuse not building

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I’m running EndeavourOS on a Surface Pro 8. I’ve been trying to build firefox-kde and even firefox-kde-opensuse from the AUR using yay for the last two hours. I keep getting the following errors when I run yay -S firefox-kde:

WARNING: You are using pip version 21.2.3; however, version 22.2.2 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the ‘/tmp/tmpgbt_nvk4/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip’ command.
psutil<=5.8.0,>=5.4.2: Installed with unexpected version “5.9.1”
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/kelvin/.cache/yay/firefox-kde/src/firefox-103.0.2/./mach”, line 96, in
main(sys.argv[1:])
File “/home/kelvin/.cache/yay/firefox-kde/src/firefox-103.0.2/./mach”, line 88, in main
mach = check_and_get_mach(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(file)))
File “/home/kelvin/.cache/yay/firefox-kde/src/firefox-103.0.2/./mach”, line 35, in check_and_get_mach
return load_mach(dir_path, mach_path)
File “/home/kelvin/.cache/yay/firefox-kde/src/firefox-103.0.2/./mach”, line 21, in load_mach
return mach_initialize.initialize(dir_path)
File “/home/kelvin/.cache/yay/firefox-kde/src/firefox-103.0.2/build/mach_initialize.py”, line 153, in initialize
_activate_python_environment(
File “/home/kelvin/.cache/yay/firefox-kde/src/firefox-103.0.2/build/mach_initialize.py”, line 99, in _activate_python_environment
mach_environment.activate()
File “/home/kelvin/.cache/yay/firefox-kde/src/firefox-103.0.2/python/mach/mach/site.py”, line 359, in activate
self.ensure()
File “/home/kelvin/.cache/yay/firefox-kde/src/firefox-103.0.2/python/mach/mach/site.py”, line 337, in ensure
result = self._up_to_date()
File “/home/kelvin/.cache/yay/firefox-kde/src/firefox-103.0.2/python/mach/mach/site.py”, line 322, in _up_to_date
_assert_pip_check(
File “/home/kelvin/.cache/yay/firefox-kde/src/firefox-103.0.2/python/mach/mach/site.py”, line 1106, in _assert_pip_check
raise Exception(
Exception: The “mach” site is not compatible with the installed system Python packages.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting…
→ error making: firefox-kde

I checked my pip install:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: pip in /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages (22.2.2)

How do I fix this?

Here is the complete output:
firefox-kde.pdf (66.9 KB)

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using pip? running it as root before??

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and always check the AUR page and comments:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-kde
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-kde-opensuse

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Thanks for pointing out the firefox-kde-opensuse AUR page! I was finally able to install firefox-kde-opensuse from Thaodan’s repository.

I only tried to install firefox-kde-opensuse once from the AUR using yay. When that didn’t work, I focused all of my efforts on firefox-kde. I read the firefox-kde AUR page thoroughly, and even tried, without success, to install it with paru.

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Out of curiosity, what features of these browsers are you using?

Since Firefox now can use kde file dialogs natively it seems I see fewer people using these variants.

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It’s more for curiosity. I wanted to see if firefox-kde-opensuse provided any additional KDE Plasma integration over regular Firefox. So far the answer has been no.

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I think it adds two things:

  • Native file dialogs(which you now get another way)
  • Global menu/appmenu integration(Which you only need if you are using that)
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