Weird problem. PlayonLinux, which I use to run an AI photo cleanup program, just keeps showing up and reinstalling on every system update for the past day.
I went to the AUR page to leave a comment, and of course you have to log on, and once upon a time, I did have a logon and password, and that got lost somehow.
Of course, I tried the lost password prompt, but that did not send me a link to do that over a whole day.
Is there any other way to contact the maintainer?
I just gave on the AUR lost password feature and just set up a new ID using my Gmail account, rather than my main email, and was able to leave a message. Weāll see what happens.
You probably just need to rebuild the package. There was a huge Python update recently, and almost everything uses Python as a dependency or a dependency of a dependency. 
So, update again, but this time choose to rebuild it.
When I run paru, it just gives me, āproceed to reviewā (Y/n).
āYā does a normal install, ānā just terminates paru.
How do I do that rebuild?
Would this work?
paru --rebuild playonlinux
Just tried that, I did get a different outcome, sort of.
:: Proceed to review? [Y/n]: n
[mark@mark-optiplex9020 ~]$ paru --rebuild playonlinux
1 aur/playonlinux 4.4+47+g10f7853-2 [+17 ~2.43] [Installed: 4.4+47+g10f7853c-2]
GUI for managing Windows programs under linux
2 aur/phoenicis-playonlinux 5.0.r2884.f9f749b46-1 [+6 ~0.01]
Phoenicis PlayOnLinux allows you to install and use non-native applications on linux
3 aur/playonlinux4-git 1:4.4.r42.g8740f6b8-1 [+4 ~0.01] [Orphaned]
GUI for managing Windows programs under linux
:: Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3):
:: 1
:: Resolving dependenciesā¦
:: Calculating conflictsā¦
:: Calculating inner conflictsā¦
Aur (1) playonlinux-4.4+47+g10f7853-2
:: Proceed to review? [Y/n]:
Takes me to the same place, same result.
Try this instead:
paru --rebuild=all playonlinux
It did seem to do a little more processing,
and seemed to complete, but another PARU command after it was all over shows it hasnāt cleared:
[markal@markal-optiplex390 ~]$ paru --rebuild=all playonlinux
1 aur/playonlinux 4.4+47+g10f7853-2 [+17 ~2.43] [Installed: 4.4+47+g10f7853c-2]
GUI for managing Windows programs under linux
2 aur/phoenicis-playonlinux 5.0.r2884.f9f749b46-1 [+6 ~0.01]
Phoenicis PlayOnLinux allows you to install and use non-native applications on linux
3 aur/playonlinux4-git 1:4.4.r42.g8740f6b8-1 [+4 ~0.01] [Orphaned]
GUI for managing Windows programs under linux
:: Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3):
:: 1
:: Resolving dependenciesā¦
:: Calculating conflictsā¦
:: Calculating inner conflictsā¦
Aur (1) Old Version New Version Make Only
aur/playonlinux 4.4+47+g10f7853c-2 4.4+47+g10f7853-2 No
:: Proceed to review? [Y/n]: y
:: Downloading PKGBUILDsā¦
PKGBUILDs up to date
nothing new to review
fetching devel infoā¦
==> Making package: playonlinux 4.4+47+g10f7853c-2 (Thu 26 Dec 2024 06:05:45 AM CST)
==> Retrieving sourcesā¦
ā Updating playonlinux4 git repoā¦
ā Found PlayOnLinuxUrlHandler.desktop
==> Validating source files with sha256sumsā¦
playonlinux4 ā¦ Skipped
PlayOnLinuxUrlHandler.desktop ā¦ Passed
==> Making package: playonlinux 4.4+47+g10f7853c-2 (Thu 26 Dec 2024 06:05:46 AM CST)
==> Checking runtime dependenciesā¦
==> Checking buildtime dependenciesā¦
==> Retrieving sourcesā¦
ā Updating playonlinux4 git repoā¦
ā Found PlayOnLinuxUrlHandler.desktop
==> Validating source files with sha256sumsā¦
playonlinux4 ā¦ Skipped
PlayOnLinuxUrlHandler.desktop ā¦ Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directoryā¦
==> Extracting sourcesā¦
ā Creating working copy of playonlinux4 git repoā¦
Cloning into āplayonlinux4āā¦
done.
Switched to a new branch āmakepkgā
==> Starting pkgver()ā¦
==> Sources are ready.
playonlinux-4.4+47+g10f7853-2: parsing pkg listā¦
==> Making package: playonlinux 4.4+47+g10f7853c-2 (Thu 26 Dec 2024 06:05:49 AM CST)
==> Checking runtime dependenciesā¦
==> Checking buildtime dependenciesā¦
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Starting pkgver()ā¦
==> Starting build()ā¦
==> Entering fakeroot environmentā¦
==> Starting package()ā¦
==> Tidying installā¦
ā Removing libtool filesā¦
ā Purging unwanted filesā¦
ā Removing static library filesā¦
ā Copying source files needed for debug symbolsā¦
ā Compressing man and info pagesā¦
==> Checking for packaging issuesā¦
==> Creating package āplayonlinuxāā¦
ā Generating .PKGINFO fileā¦
ā Generating .BUILDINFO fileā¦
ā Generating .MTREE fileā¦
ā Compressing packageā¦
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: playonlinux 4.4+47+g10f7853c-2 (Thu 26 Dec 2024 06:05:52 AM CST)
==> Cleaning upā¦
[sudo] password for markal:
loading packagesā¦
warning: playonlinux-4.4+47+g10f7853c-2 is up to date ā reinstalling
resolving dependenciesā¦
looking for conflicting packagesā¦
Package (1) Old Version New Version Net Change
playonlinux 4.4+47+g10f7853c-2 4.4+47+g10f7853c-2 0.00 MiB
Total Installed Size: 6.32 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [--------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [--------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [--------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [--------------------------------------] 100%
:: Processing package changesā¦
(1/1) reinstalling playonlinux [--------------------------------------] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooksā¦
(1/4) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdateā¦
(2/4) Updating icon theme cachesā¦
(3/4) Checking which packages need to be rebuilt
foreign kazam
foreign python-pyrsistent
foreign python-yattag
(4/4) Updating the desktop file MIME type cacheā¦
[markal@markal-optiplex390 ~]$ paru
:: Synchronizing package databasesā¦
endeavouros is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgradeā¦
there is nothing to do
:: Looking for PKGBUILD upgradesā¦
:: Looking for AUR upgradesā¦
:: Looking for devel upgradesā¦
:: Resolving dependenciesā¦
:: Calculating conflictsā¦
:: Calculating inner conflictsā¦
:: packages not in the AUR: hardinfo ksanecore5 libksane5
:: marked out of date: python-future
Aur (1) Old Version New Version Make Only
aur/playonlinux 4.4+47+g10f7853c-2 4.4+47+g10f7853-2 No
:: Proceed to review? [Y/n]:
Well, it seems that the maintainer needs to update the package.
Maybe you can try to do a force sync with sudo pacman -Syyu. Notice the two āyyā.
It shouldnāt make a difference, but is possibly worth a shot.
Gave it a shot, same result.
Itās the maintainerās problem now.
Thanks for the attempted fixes, for now I waitā¦
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Looks like playonlinux might be dead:
The OP was using the AUR, so yes, not in the Official Repo.
PlayOnLinux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=playonlinux
Also, that is an old thread.
Lutris or bottles?
I have had no success getting Topaz DeNoise to work under anything else on Linux other than PlayonLinux, which just works.
Maintainer patched playonlinux , is there anynpastebin which depency fail?
Not sure what youāre asking. The program still works.
Itās weird - their homepage shows links to download version 4.34, yet Arch is showing a much newer version. The AUR page is full of bug reports, most from EOS users: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/playonlinux
Maybe you can try their version 5 dev branch: phoenicis-playonlinux
So that would be āparu -S phoenicis-playonlinuxā ?
Yes, that will do it. Hereās their Git website, if youāre interested: https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/phoenicis
Looks like that one has had recent problems too, judging by whatās on the AUR page.
I wish bottles would work, tried a couple of times, the bottles community was no help.
PlayonLinux was popular when there were fewer good Linux applications available.
Now itās all about games, which seems to be the last area of interest for windows stuff on Linux.