Problem installing naps2

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1

I am trying to install naps2, which is listed in the AUR. However, the installation fails as follows:

[petern@localhost ~]$ yay -S naps2
→ No AUR package found for dotnet-sdk=10.0 (required by: naps2)
→ could not find all required packages: dotnet-sdk=10.0
[petern@localhost ~]$

However, snap is said to contain dotnet, but when trying to install dotnet-sdk=10.0 from snap, I get:

[petern@localhost ~]$ sudo snap install dotnet-sdk=10.0
error: cannot install “dotnet-sdk=10.0”: invalid instance name: invalid snap name:
“dotnet-sdk=10.0”
[petern@localhost ~]$

which brings progress to a grinding halt. Where am I going wrong - or is there no solution?

2

Wrong command for the snap according to this

Try

sudo snap install dotnet-sdk-100
3

Small addition: the error comes from the AUR package, not from snap. The naps2 PKGBUILD lists dotnet-sdk=10.0 as a build dependency, and dotnet-sdk is in the official Arch repo (extra, currently 10.0.12), so there is no separate AUR package for it. A snap install of dotnet won’t satisfy that dependency for the AUR build, since it has to be present in pacman’s database.

So this should work: sudo pacman -S dotnet-sdk, then yay -S naps2 again.

I haven’t built naps2 myself. This is from reading the PKGBUILD and the repo listing, not from testing.

4

Is the system up to date (yay -Suy)?

5

Well I would recommend to install the bin version of naps2 (will build, and update quicker), and you can do all that is mentioned above in one go like this.

yay -Syu naps2-bin

Edit: I adjusted the command because I did not notice the optional thingy, like mentioned below, before.

6

If you use the naps2-bin you don’t need the dotnet-sdk.

Note: I also tested this just to be sure.

(the dotnet-runtime is optional)

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