Question about boost-libs=1.74.0 and vpn-unlimited

[FediWarneck]

I have installed the current version of manjaro mate on two computers. Using the AUR, I was able to install vpn-unlimited without any problems on one computer, but the dependencies refuse to work on the other.

Before I go searching for a wolf, I thought I’d ask the professionals.

[dmt]

Well there’s not much information to go on, please post any errors you get.

For now I’ll suggest that you may need to install base-devel.

sudo pacman -S base-devel

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

[FediWarneck]

base-devel is installed

Warnung: vpn-unlimited ist nur vom AUR verfügbar
Vorbereitung...
Klone vpn-unlimited Build-Dateien...
Generiere vpn-unlimited Informationen...
Überprüfe vpn-unlimited Abhängigkeiten...
Überprüfe qt5-webkit Abhängigkeiten...
Abhängigkeiten werden aufgelöst...
Warnung: Kann "boost-libs=1.74.0" nicht auflösen (eine Abhängigkeit von "vpn-unlimited")
Fehler: Vorgang konnte nicht erfolgreich vorbereitet werden:
Kann Abhängigkeiten nicht erfüllen:
- nicht vorhandene Abhängigkeit 'boost-libs=1.74.0' benötigt von vpn-unlimited



Build-Dateien bearbeiten : [e] 
Transaktion anwenden ? [e/j/N] j

Vorgang abgebrochen.

[dmt]

It seems to be relying on an outdated version, that is no longer available in either the repos or the AUR.

You could try changing this line

boost-libs=1.74.0

to this

boost174-libs

However there's this comment on the AUR page:

No workaround for boost-libs=1.74 in near sight, though?

Not to my knowledge. They’ve linked to version 1.74 because that’s what’s available on Debian Bullseye. I don’t think it’s possible patch the executable to use 1.81 so’s, but I’d be happy to do so if there was a way. Debian Experimental has 1.81 but I guess that’s years away.

The only think I can think of would be to reach out to them and ask them to not link explicitly to version 1.74, or to statically link Boost.

EDIT:
Corrected.

The package maintainer should be notified so they can correct the PKGBUILD.

[stasadev]

Try this:

pamac build boost174-libs vpn-unlimited

[FediWarneck]

I will try to change the entry to boost-libs. The crazy thing is that it worked under the same distribution on one computer and not on the other. That’s what puzzles me.

[dmt]

Oops missed that one.

[FediWarneck]

Ok … looks good … will check back after compiling on an old macmini … think in 3 hours ^^

ThankYou!

[FediWarneck]

Thank You All! Problem is solved. Great work.
I tried about 5 years to get that to work before under Linux.