Build packages from AUR

[lattimro]

I am delighted to discover this Manjaro community. I am testing Manjaro for more than a year on VM (Oracle). I would like to share my experience installing a package from AUR, librewolf and I hope you can give me some clues how to solve this issue. The package build started OK but after a lot of time (more than 1 hour) the CPU and HDD accumulating load over 20 from 0.44-1.0 and hdd grew from 5G to 10, 15, 17G. At some point the system crashed and I had to restart and start over again a few times with no success finishing installation. I increased the VM’s allocated MEM from 1024 to 2048 and then 4G but did not help. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @lattimro, and welcome!

Browsers take a long time to compile. I’ve noticed it myself:

Curiosity question

Hey everybody, OK, so my apologies if thi8s is a stupid question. I’m really, really just curios. Why does Browsers take so long to compile? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t really do it, but I know it can take quite some time. I mean, I have an i7-8700K and I accidentally try to install Ungoogled-chromium by compiling it. After ~6+ hours, I stopped it, since it’s not that important to me, but I have been curios ever since.

From that post:

Firefox source is 350’ish MB compressed
Kernel source is about 170 MB compressed.

So yeah, it can take a long time.

However, the *-bin packages are precompiled and you don’'t need yo compile them. And I noticed that there is a binary for (the package with the -bin extension) for librewolf. You can install it with:

pamac build librewolf-bin

Hope this helps!

[lattimro]

thanks for confirming that this is normal to takes so much time for compiling. I tried also the binary you have mentioned but it crashed too. I installed from flatpack and it took few minutes.

[Mirdarthos]

You are very welcome!

I think the continued crashing has somethin, no I don’t know what the “something” could be, to do with it running in a VM, but I’m not sure.

But flatpak is one of my favorite ways to install software. So it’s all good IMHO.

As long as you managed, all’s good IMO.

[mithrial]

If you don’t tell us how it “crashed”, there’s nothing we can do about it.

[lattimro]

@Mirdarthos

IMHO

I did not have any info how crashed but means frozen should be more appropriate. I just noticed the CPU load increased and I supposed the allocated MEM reached a critical value and freeze the kernel. I had to power off the VM client (Manjaro). I wish I could have more info on that.

[Mirdarthos]

I don’t think it crashed completely. I think CPU usage was just so hight that it looked that way.

Don’t bother about getting more information. I suspect nothing is wrong, per sè