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Xarturkhann

Member

From: Ankara

Registered: 2006-02-17

Posts: 55

[request] qnext

Good app .Please add this package into AUR.

Web site :http://www.qnext.com/

Download:http://www.qnext.com/download_linux.php

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: [request] qnext

I'm having a look, but tbh, I'm not feeling very enthusiastic. It's non-free, it's binary-only, it's a 46MB(!) tarball, and I'm getting lousy download speed from their server. Oh, and I had to look at the download page source to get a direct link to the tarball - I hate that. :x

Reading the install info on the site, there's more trouble -

Download Qnext ..... and save it in a folder where you have full read, write and executable permissions on your system.

So basically, the PKGBUILD will dump it into /usr/share, and a post-install message will tell you to copy it to your $HOME.

(tick..tock..tick..tock)
OK, the download's finished (finally), and now I can see why it's so ridiculously, and unnecessarily, huge - it includes a complete copy of the JRE. I'll post the PKGBUILD and .install here later on, but this is not the kind of thing I'd put in the AUR. Someone else might, though.

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: [request] qnext

PKGBUILD

pkgname=qnext
pkgver=beta
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="P2P communications suite"
depends=()
source=(http://downloads2.qnext.com/$pkgname.tar.bz2 
        http://www.qnext.com/license_agreement.shtml)
md5sums=('6053df3244c586a25bf46f43eff415e5' 'e5e3c2057a9ca48f98fcf858b2d5a623')
url="http://www.qnext.com"
license='custom'
install=qnext.install

build() {
  cd $startdir/src
  
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/share
  cp -r qnext $startdir/pkg/usr/share
  install -D license_agreement.shtml 
  $startdir/pkg/usr/share/licenses/qnext/license_agreement.shtml
}

qnext.install

post_install() {
  cat << 'EOM'
==> Please copy the /usr/share/qnext directory to your user's $HOME directory.
==> To run qnext, change to the ~/qnext directory and enter './qnext'.
EOM
}

op=$1
shift
$op $*

If anyone's sufficiently interested, they should get on to qnext and explain that linux users usually prefer to install their own jre, so could they provide a tarball for the application only please?