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jronald

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Registered: 2022-05-09

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[SOLVED] What about make conda an official package for archlinux?

I'm trying to install poppler for python,

the version for pip is 0.4.1, https://pypi.org/project/python-poppler/

the version for conda is 25.02.0, which is the newest, https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/poppler

So I tries to check if conda is excellent enough, and I'm convinced it is.

When python is very popular today, what about make conda an official package for archlinux?

Thanks

Last edited by jronald (2025-02-22 16:12:37)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] What about make conda an official package for archlinux?

The point of conda is to have a python environment on environments where python is not part of the environment (read, Windows and MacOS), which isn't the case on a properly maintained linux distro and definitely not with the rolling release nature of Arch. Making it part of the repos would be pretty disastrous, for the same reasons it's strongly discouraged to do system wide installs with pip and you'd actively having to pass the --i-want-to-break-my-system flag. Also you are not actually looking at the same packages. conda-forge contains the poppler c code base which... drumroll: is https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/poppler/ and that has no relation with the python bindings, which are in fact at version 0.4.1

Last edited by V1del (2025-02-21 19:17:16)

mackin_cheese

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Re: [SOLVED] What about make conda an official package for archlinux?

Poppler in the official repo is 25.02.0.....

jronald

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Re: [SOLVED] What about make conda an official package for archlinux?

Also you are not actually looking at the same packages. conda-forge contains the poppler c code base which... drumroll: is https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/poppler/ and that has no relation with the python bindings, which are in fact at version 0.4.1

Alright, it's C/C++ instead of python.

jronald

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Re: [SOLVED] What about make conda an official package for archlinux?

Poppler in the official repo is 25.02.0.....

But not the python binding

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] What about make conda an official package for archlinux?

The homepage for that project is at https://cbrunet.net/python-poppler/ , code is at https://github.com/cbrunet/python-poppler

Commit list suggests it's no longer maintained .

Arch repos have python-poppler-qt5 , maybe you can use that ?

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