So I’m sure a lot of people might be having issues with this thing taking days to compile personally I’ve been going for an hour and it’s only at 19% but i have a few questions regarding this. Why is this package building manually now when it wasn’t previously? Why did this add 58 packages to my system and is that permanent? Does this have to build every single time i update now? The sad thing is the only reason i updated today was of course discord wanted to update so i figured i would do one really quick… i now regret running yay -Syu today
it was in extra before:
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/webkit2gtk/
but they removed it 11th april?
So as you will have something installed depending on the legacy 2.50 version it will now use the same named PKGBUILD and try to build from source..
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/webkit2gtk-4.1/ is the current version in repo.
You can check what is depending on webkit2gtk:
pacman -Qi webkit2gtk
Required By // Optional For will show it.
I would recommend to remove these together with webkit2gtk if you do not need them. If you need, check if there is a better version depending on the version from extra instead,
is not installed?
simply remove it..
sudo pacman -Rsc webkit2gtk and check the output before running to not uninstall needed stuff..
Is what not installed? dfldp is installed so is webkit2gtk-4.1 and webkit2gtk so I don’t understand your question. Also still confused how updating my system made my packages go from 1157 to 1215 if i check my cat /var/log/pacman.log it looks like a bunch of stuff was installed but why i have no idea.
I’m running luakit and it uses webkit2gtk-4.1.
PS: Have you re-installed on the mini-PC, or solved the problem otherwise?
dwarffortress-linuxdwarfpack-appimage is listed as depending on webkit2gtk and i can see the same on the AUR page. But Last Updated: 2023-01-07 11:35 (UTC) so could be maintaining person simply needs to fix it.
Only way around would be removal of them both or put them both to ignore list.
these are needed to build the package webkit2gtk i bet.
But its now removed from arch repo and it tries to build it from sources, to make the package and install it.
So i would have to remove webkit2gtk and webkit2gtk-4.1? Wouldn’t that cause the package that depends on them to not work anymore? Is the webkit2gtk-is-webkitgtk2-4.1 dummy package a decent work around? If it is do i just remove webkit2gtk and not -4.1? So now i have to go manually get rid of all those packages yay. Why would they remove it from extra? like you cannot tell me they didn’t see this being a problem for a ton of people.
I haven’t had time to mess with it over the last couple days i booted it a few times but everything went normally. I was hoping to mess with that later today again but now I’ve spent 4 hours on this problem.
Also if i go to remove webkit2gtk how do i stop it from building? do i just close the terminal that is doing it? it’s been 3 hours and its only at 50% so I’m kinda over it at this point.
CTRL + C terminates any process in the terminal.
this is what i wanted to say indeed.. use the version from repo remove the one not at the repo anymore.
But it will also remove dwarffortress-linuxdwarfpack-appimage as it is still set to depend on webkit2gtk and not webkit2gtk-4.1 ..
And as of that i gave you the other workaround options.. setting the installed webkit2gtk and dwarffortress-linuxdwarfpack-appimage to get excluded from updating till the maintaining person fixes the AUR build..
Okay so using the webkit2gtk-is-webkit2gtk-4.1 package wouldn’t work? So in other words i can remove it but then not play my favorite game and i highly doubt the person maintaining that will fix it quickly considering how long it’s been since the last update. So if using the dummy package isn’t an option how do i set it to ignore updates for both of those packages?
Does it build, if you install yay luakit (6MB browser), too?
I have no idea what that even is.
i do not know what this is.. you could link to it in case
As it looks like only your Game is in the need and its not updated itself ii would simply go adding these two to the ignore list.
Only needs you to keep an eye if the package for the game is getting an update to fix it with this properly.
in your /etc/pacman.conf you have a line for the ignore action:
#IgnorePkg =
change it to:
IgnorePkg = webkit2gtk
With this it will not try to build it anymore and you should be able to update system..
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/webkit2gtk-is-webkit2gtk-4-1 This is the one i was talking about it supposedly satisfies the dependencies but idk
