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General Category => Forum => Topic started by: Azuneer on 18 October 2021, 20:06:46

Title: Discord package from the AUR - Missing package from a needed dependency
Post by: Azuneer on 18 October 2021, 20:06:46
Hello everyone, i've recently installed Artix and i find it very nice to use. I wanted to install discord via the AUR using yay (the AUR helper). But i've ran into an error telling me that the package "arsa" is missing and is required for the "discord_arch_electron" package

I paste the output down there (sorry it's in french because i'm french) :

08:02:41 azuneer@artixbox ~ → yay -S discord
:: Il existe 4 fournisseurs disponibles pour electron :
:: Dépôt AUR
    1) electron-beta-bin 2) electron-bin 3) electron-nightly-npm 4) electron14-bin

Entrer un numéro (1 par défaut) :
 -> Impossible de trouver tous les paquets :
   asar (Dépendances de: discord_arch_electron)

uname  -r gives (i don't think it's very important but here it is) : 5.14.10-artix1-1

Thanks to anyone who will help me !  ;D
Title: Re: Discord package from the AUR - Missing package from a needed dependency
Post by: strajder on 18 October 2021, 20:44:01
AUR is not officially supported by Arch, because the programs are sent by users and not yet approved by Trusted Users (TUs). It is additionally not supported by Artix, because there is no guarantee the programs from AUR will work without systemd.

Also see: https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,2994.0.html
Note 2: Take into consideration that Discord is an anti-privacy program (https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html). It is spying on its users.

And: https://stallman.org/discord.html
Title: Re: Discord package from the AUR - Missing package from a needed dependency
Post by: Arch_user on 19 October 2021, 16:03:46
package asar is available in Arch Linux community repository , you can fix it  by enabling Arch Linux repositories
https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories
Title: Re: Discord package from the AUR - Missing package from a needed dependency
Post by: manoca on 19 October 2021, 16:53:33
Why do you want to get discord from AUR? It is listed in one of the official Arch Repos(community). Why don't get it from there via pacman? Just tested this on my machine and it works without any problems. I just installed the arch-artix-support package from the artix repo, added the mirrorlists to my pacman.conf and everything went smoothly with a simple pacman -S discord