Installing Eliot scrabble on Manjaro : Need arabica from the AUR and boost

[drfuzzy]

Trying to install the Eliot Scrabble program, and the arabica package fails verification. Is there something I can do as a user, or do I need to wait for someone at the AUR to fix or bless the arabica package?

command line:
pamac build arabica

transcript:

% sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do
% pamac build arabica             ✔ 
Preparing...
Cloning arabica build files...
Checking arabica dependencies...
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...

To build (1):
  arabica  20160101-1    AUR


Edit build files : [e] 
Apply transaction ? [e/y/N] y


Building arabica...
==> Making package: arabica 20160101-1 (Mon 22 Feb 2021 08:03:41 AM CST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found 2016-January.tar.gz
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    2016-January.tar.gz ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
Error: Failed to build arabica

[NGr]

Hi,

This was flagged out-of-date on the 24/11/2020. Someone has posted “a working PKGBUILD for the newest version” (I have not verified this) in the comments section (AUR (en) - arabica), obviously check what the PKGBULD is doing before using it.

[drfuzzy]

Thanks for the quick response. The problem is that as a newbie to Manjaro / AUR, I don’t know how to " check what the PKGBULD is doing before using it"

My computer science degree is from 1989, so there’s a whole layer of DEV and OBJECT and PACKAGE complexity that I do not understand.

Can you give me more detail as to how to proceed?

I can see the PKGBUILD file from the AUR… I do not know where to put that file or what commands to type to use it.

Is there a reason this PKGBUILD hasn’t been installed / blessed at the AUR?

[NGr]

I always verify the source, which is this case is legit. To install:

git clone https://gist.github.com/macxcool/e6e738f58ab914c83dd31afe602f8880
cd e6e738f58ab914c83dd31afe602f8880
makepkg -sicC

[drfuzzy]

Thank you!

That magic incantation claims to have built arabica… now building eliot.

This Unix dinosaur thanks you.

[NGr]

No problem.

If you want to read further about using the AUR and PKGBUILD’s, the Arch wiki is what I refer to:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository

[drfuzzy]

Dang… now I have another failure building eliot.

Should I

1. Post that here on this thread?
2. Make a new thread on the Manjaro forum?
3. Make a new post over on the AUR forum?

Building eliot...
==> Making package: eliot 2.1-1 (Mon 22 Feb 2021 08:52:11 AM CST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading eliot-2.1.tar.gz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   181  100   181    0     0    776      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   776
  0   189    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading [ link I can't post in forum ]
    Aborting...
Error: Failed to build eliot

[NGr]

You’re not having much luck with out-of-date packages (this is from the same maintainer as arabica).

There is another PKGBUILD from the same person who posted the updated arabica PKGBUILD. That can be installed by:

git clone https://gist.github.com/macxcool/1bead43180d75504bbe09e61e5f9617c
cd 1bead43180d75504bbe09e61e5f9617c
makepkg -sicC

EDIT: missed out git clone, sorry

[drfuzzy]

I added “git clone” and fed that to the shell, and it failed in compile.

At this point I will give up.

Now I need to go put a bounty on updating Eliot in the AUR…

Thanks for all your help.

mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
header.cpp:27:10: fatal error: boost/foreach.hpp: No such file or directory
   27 | #include <boost/foreach.hpp>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:596: header.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
compdicmain.cpp:28:10: fatal error: boost/format.hpp: No such file or directory
   28 | #include <boost/format.hpp>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:612: compdic-compdicmain.o] Error 1
csv_helper.cpp:23:10: fatal error: boost/foreach.hpp: No such file or directory
   23 | #include <boost/foreach.hpp>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:596: csv_helper.o] Error 1
dic.cpp:29:10: fatal error: boost/foreach.hpp: No such file or directory
   29 | #include <boost/foreach.hpp>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

[NGr]

I’m afraid someone more knowledgeable than me will need to take a look at the compiler errors. The No such file or directory errors could be due to missing make dependencies, but I’m just guessing at this point.

[drfuzzy]

Thanks for trying.

It’s been 4 years since this worked… apparently.

[cfinnberg]

Hi,

The person who made the revised Eliot PKGBUILD forgot to add the boost package (or maybe at that time it was not necessary). Just install it with sudo pacman -S boost and try to make again the eliot package with makepkg. I got it working that way in a moment.

[drfuzzy]

That did it… I’m playing scrabble.

To review:

1. Install boost using pacman
2. Install arabica and eliot using makepkg

–Fuzzy

[cfinnberg]

I would amend only that it’s not necessary to download sources with git, makepkg will download them for you.

[drfuzzy]

I don’t know how to use makepkg… but I’ll change the post.

[cfinnberg]

PKGBUILD is the script and makepkg will use it to download sources, sumcheck and compile them:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg