So, I have installed pacseek since quite a while, but did not use it. Today I wanted to use it again to check some AUR packages, and it is not working properly. When I fire up pacseek and anter a search term and then hit “Enter” nothing happens. When I press backspace, it starts a full upgrade. Unusable.
I tried reinstalling it, no successs. I uninstalled, removed ~/.config/pacseek - no success. Any ideas?
Everything working on my side. Connectivity problems, maybe?
Keypresses wrong due to connectivity issues? Then that would happen with more than one programm. And I wouldn’t know how that should happen in a TUI… Nevertheless, no connection issues.
Which version of pacseek do you have installed ?
aur/pacseek-git 1.8.2.238.36a078a-1 (+1 0.00) [829d6h]
A terminal user interface for searching and installing Arch Linux packages (git version)
aur/pacseek-bin 1.8.6-1 (+25 4.25) [189d7h] (Geïnstalleerd)
A terminal user interface for searching and installing Arch Linux packages (binary version)
aur/pacseek 1.8.6-1 (+52 3.40) [189d7h]
A terminal user interface for searching and installing Arch Linux packages
1.8.6-1, but none of the above:
can you get it to work at the command line
pacseek $PACKAGE
Yes that works, but even than I can not use for example arrows…
Can you at least get into the settings via Ctrl + s ?
In my case, it seems that longer search results would result in runtime error: invalid memory address / nil pointer dereference.
I’ve got int installed, but I don’t use it as much. Seems that it does support a fzf search query / auto completion and will display search results while typing ? I guess that’s a new feature, can recall it having that feature in the past.
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when you do that and the arrow doesnt work can you click it with the mouse and then get the arrow to work
I ask because unless I click the list with a mouse I can’t navigate either
Did you reinstall the Chaotic AUR version, or the one in the AUR? I would try the AUR version, just to eliminate a problem with the Chaotic build. I had that happen a couple of times when library updates were out of sync.
Nope, the only button that works if nothing is in the input field is esc to quit or backspace to trigger a system update
Never seen something like that
Nope, the click does not change anything, but I can select entries with the mouse…
Both, no change in behaviour
Well, I don’t have an idea how to troubleshoot this, other than removing the Chaotic-AUR package completely and to install the binary package aur/pacseek-bin 1.8.6-1 after you’ve removed potential configuration files (~/.config/pacseek) as well as cleaning the caches.
Also, I don’t think that a build would take much time, as it is an TUI application written in go. Thus, the package aur/pacseek 1.8.6-1 But if you prefer the Chaotic-AUR due to their security auditing of packages, I’ld eventually remove it completely and reinstall it again.
Which is your terminal / shell of choice ?
How to clean the cache? Do you mean pacman cache, so sudo paccache -r? I’d avoid that due to AUR situation. The rest has allready be done.
As mentioned: Beside the cache: Done.
Konsole with fish shell, bash for the “system shell”.
Nevermind, it keeps only a cache during runtime, 10 minutes per default settings which could be wiped via Ctrl + W if pacseek is running.