Stremio AUR install issue

General system Newbie
1

So I noticed when I try to installs Stremio using yay on EOS,

it starts building QTWebEngine locally , and this process takes forever to complete.

I had isntalled cachyos before EOS and on that ,the process completed rather quickly.

I don’t remember if it was building QtWebEngine or not , but the installation was done in under a 1 min.

On EOS however, even after 30 min, the building process is not complete.

Why is this happening ?

2

How did you install Stremio on CachyOS?

It’s not listed in the CachyOS repository, otherwise I might have suggested they served you a pre-compiled version.

4

I used the same command “yay-S stremio”

Also I checked the AUR official page, QtWebEngine is not mentioned in dependency there

But when I try to download stremio, it is shown.

Weird

5

qt5-webengine (aka, QtWebEngine) is listed there as a dependency.

depends=(
    'glibc'
    'hicolor-icon-theme'
    'libgcc'
    'libstdc++'
    'mpv'
    'nodejs'
    'openssl'
    'qt5-base'
    'qt5-declarative'
    'qt5-webengine'
    'qt5-quickcontrols'
    'qt5-quickcontrols2'
    'qt5-translations'
    'qt5-webchannel')

This is a non-bin open-source package, so it’s going to compile on your system, and depending on the packages involved, that can take a while.

Once you get it installed, and when it comes to updating, you can make it quicker by not choosing to “Clean build” when asked. I would caution, that sometimes a clean rebuild is necessary so be mindful if you hit errors, to try that.

6

Ah, and here’s where the difference is. qt5-webengine IS in the CachyOS repositories:

So if would have served that to you, pre-compiled.

7

Oh, that’s why

Thanks for the help​:+1:

I’ll install cachyos repo then.

8

FWIW, I tried installing Stremio from the AUR, but it never ran smoothly or at all.
So I installed the flatpak and this runs great and the installation is fast.

9

Yeah, thanks for the suggestion

Though, yay also works fine now after installing cachyos repo

10

For me also the reason to use the flatpak version. From aur very long build time.

11

I also tried flatpak one, but it had lags and shuttering issues for me, that’s why I was trying to install from yay,

Nevertheless, I added cachyos repo and yay worked fine

This version has no lags