[beta] aurkonsult - Gui "aur explorer" for plasma

papajoke · 24 November 2021 13:08

I present an aur-explorer gui, written in Qt for plasma (aurkonsult)
Some users run pamac gui only for consult aur ?

It uses the new aur database (so no banning of our IP)

This beta version (0.1.30) is not present in aur but PKGBUILD is available (makepkg -si -p PKGBUILD.git)

Config:

“new” aur proposes 2 databases. By default, this script uses the simple.

simple : 7Mb to download
extended: 9Mb - We have in addition dependencies. add --ext option

We can save database in:

/tmp/ or
~/.cache/packages-meta{-ext}-v1.json

Use

First button “Update” (ctrl+u) : Load database from aur only if a new version is available (every 5 minutes)
“Packages” (ctrl+L) : the packages list
- red: packages “out of date” in aur
- green(if manjaro theme): new packages since last database update
“Check” (ctrl+c) : list of our installed aur packages (don’t test -git packages version !)
“New packages” (ctrl+n) : list of new packages since the last database update
“Info” : package details
“install”: only run konsole (no installation in gui! it’s an explorer only!)

multi drag&drop for console, browser (we can also drop in info and Install buttons)

default : yay -Si / or pamac info (if option --pamac)
ALT : pamac -S / pamac build
SHIFT : url project

ctrl++ or ctrl+- for Zoom +/-

Database is only saved in /tmp, so we download a new every day

check:

Yochanan · 24 November 2021 16:59

What’s this now?

warning: file '/home/yochanan/.local/share/packages-meta-v1.time' not found!

I tried editing a PKGBUILD, but it never did anything:

wget: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/PKGBUILD?h=stretchly-bin

omano · 24 November 2021 17:11

For the sake of reporting something, the tooltips on the buttons do not all have a starting capital letter, and also “new paquages”

Teamviewer appears in red for the AUR version column, but it is same version as local column. Seems like a bug to me.

When I right click a package, I have the ‘Instal yay’ action, if I click it, it opens Konsole, nothing more.
When I click the Install button, the same, it opens Konsole.

I see this in the terminal output Warning: not possible to load konsole!

And I crashed it by clicking the Update button (from the check my aur ackages page)

:: Download Database... in /tmp/packages-meta-v1.json
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:17:07 GMT
Content-Type: application/gzip
Content-Length: 6834315
Last-Modified: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:14:08 GMT
Connection: close
ETag: "619e72e0-68488b"
Expires: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:22:07 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=300
Content-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Ranges: bytes


expire: 2021-11-24 17:22:07
cache expire in: 0:04:59.909252
database is updated 200
loadPackages()

:: Load Database...
json to data duration: --- 0.7780141830444336 seconds ---
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/media/SSD_500Go/Downloads/aur-db.kde(1).py", line 475, in initStyleOption
    if pkg["LocalVersion"] == pkg["Version"]:
KeyError: 'LocalVersion'

Arisa · 24 November 2021 17:27

When clicking update I do get crash too but different one related to my locale

Crash Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/arisa/Desktop/GIT/papajoke/main.py", line 618, in run
    old_locale = locale.getlocale(locale.LC_ALL)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/locale.py", line 592, in getlocale
    raise TypeError('category LC_ALL is not supported')
TypeError: category LC_ALL is not supported
zsh: abort (core dumped)  python main.py

command "locale"

locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or director
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=en_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=en_DE.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I have kinda messy locales yay but nothing else crashes because of it

Info button crashes too for me

Info button Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/arisa/Desktop/GIT/papajoke/main.py", line 808, in onInfo
    self.win.populate_Info(pkg)
  File "/home/arisa/Desktop/GIT/papajoke/main.py", line 1101, in populate_Info
    if pkg["PackageBase"] == pkg["Name"]:
KeyError: 'PackageBase'
zsh: abort (core dumped)  python main.py

when I force LC_ALL=“en_US.UTF-8” it crashes too with the same error as the person above

Traceback

/tmp/packages-meta-v1.json

:: Download Database... in /tmp/packages-meta-v1.json
database is updated 200
loadPackages()

:: Load Database...
json to data duration: --- 0.5571067333221436 seconds ---
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/arisa/Desktop/GIT/papajoke/main.py", line 476, in initStyleOption
    if pkg["LocalVersion"] == pkg["Version"]:
KeyError: 'LocalVersion'
zsh: abort (core dumped)  LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" python main.py

Install button log

New package since:  in 'highlight' color

loadPackages()

:: Load Database...
json to data duration: --- 0.6266999244689941 seconds ---
Deps filter: want: set() not: set()
search end: shi
Deps filter: want: set() not: set()
search end: shin
Deps filter: want: set() not: set()
search end: shiny
Go to: https://gitlab.com/Arisa_Snowbell/shiny-mirrors
Warning Dbus:  The name org.kde.klauncher5 was not provided by any .service files
Warning: not possible to load konsole!

Also maybe the Exit button is not necessary? As on most DE’s there is Window Decoration and almost all people have close button there

papajoke · 24 November 2021 20:17

link is not related to the warning
app saves in this file the last update date: useful for the “New” button. It saves because the database is in /tmp so there is no way to find this date the next day.
There is a .time file for the 2 databases. only this is write in home

ls -l ~/.local/share/*.time
-rw-r--r-- 1 patrick users 10 24 nov.  13:18 /home/patrick/.local/share/packages-meta-ext-v1.time
-rw-r--r-- 1 patrick users 10 24 nov.  17:12 /home/patrick/.local/share/packages-meta-v1.time

EDIT: v0.1.13, now use ~/.cache/

Edit pkgbuild : I don’t know, it’s a dbus service that calls xdg-open (opens kate on my plasma)
xdg-utils not installed or a dbus module in python-qt5 ?

Yochanan · 24 November 2021 20:21

Ah, I see. Forgot to check that directory.

❯ ls -l ~/.local/share/*.time
.rw-r--r-- yochanan yochanan 10 B Wed Nov 24 09:54:57 2021  /home/yochanan/.local/share/packages-meta-v1.time

xdg-utils is indeed installed. I’m using GNOME, so there be may things to change so it’s more agnostic and not expecting to run on KDE.

papajoke · 24 November 2021 20:25

no red is “out of date” as aur page

OK, me too, thanks
EDIT: fixed v0.1.13

tuxmanjarino · 24 November 2021 20:37

Gratz, I say it’s about time we get something based on Qt at last ! (pamac cough cough!)

P.S. Please make it as hardcore-dependant on KDE as possible, I already am sending notice to KaOS devs for further… collaborations.

papajoke · 24 November 2021 20:41

EDIT: fixed v0.1.13

ok, tanks, database is not fixed, at me to test if PackageBase exists (is not in all items)
EDIT: fixed v0.1.13

Yes, is for plasma here dbus run org.kde.klauncher5 for load application
you use plasma ?

EDIT:

qdbus | grep org.kde

we have org.kde.klauncher5 , not you ?

Arisa · 24 November 2021 21:02

I am using Plasma KDE

It seems I don’t have klauncher5

papajoke · 25 November 2021 23:19

new version 0.1.21 (nothing visible )

core has been rewritten: less bug and code more clear for me - And use less memory
not use dbus for edit PKGBUILD
.time files are now written in ~/.cache/
multi drag&drop for console, browser (we can also drop in info and Install buttons)
- default : yay -Si / or pamac info (if option --pamac)
- ALT : pamac -S / pamac build
- SHIFT : url project

Note: in “detail package information” we can go through the current list (useful ? not, but for dev is good)

select “Name” field et use UP or DOWN keyboard key

EDIT new 0.1.22 : speed…speed and speed

Arisa · 26 November 2021 04:07

Good work, it doesn’t crash for me anymore anywhere and almost everything works as it should,
the only problem I am still having is the install button, at the moment it doesn’t anymore write klauncher5 doesn’t exist but “Error: not possible to load konsole!” and it opens Konsole but nothing else, it’s empty, no command written or launched

papajoke · 27 November 2021 14:51

Make test from kde iso …

All is good, no packages installed (pyqt5 installed by manjaro-printer), no changes in plasma or konsole config
Dbus command for konsole is ok (no konsole open before test)

we receive a normal security notification (for konsole, manjaro and achlinux stable, it’s ok)
test : x11, wayland is more strict for security but i not have card for test

ps: if send command by dbus not work (??), we have drag&drop (with alt for install)

omano · 27 November 2021 15:59

What is “Install yay” supposed to do when we right click a package?

To me it opens Konsole, that’s all.

papajoke · 27 November 2021 16:14

As screenshot (oops, typo error “–as-deps” fixed):

open konsole AND (sometime )
only write in console “yay -S package --asdeps” or “pamac build package” (write but not validate command !)

We have same thing with drag & drop (alt: install or default: -S )

It is an aur explorer and in no way, intended to install itself
Maybe the “install” button and context menu is too much for this app …

EDIT:
fised - thanks to @omano, now app can load konsole and send commands

linux-aarhus · 9 February 2022 16:50