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One of the reasons I like Arch is minimalism. I use framebuffer more than a desktop or wm. Fbterm has been my good friend in this. As of today, it disappeared from the AUR. This is so disturbing to me that I may go back to Debian or Ubuntu though even saying that is also disturbing too. Fbterm-git just vanished today. I use it on about 15 machines and poof ... gone from the repo.
Last edited by archfan777 (2020-07-01 20:54:48)
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The project is long dead, why would having it in the AUR matter? You have the package, you're set for now, right?
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No. I don't have the package on the machine I was installing. One of the reasons I use an application is because it is easy to obtain in the distro I use. Now it is not easy to obtain in AUR and no warning -- just disappears. If this can happen so easily in Arch, then Arch is too transient for me. Arch boasts thousands of apps in their repo but apps can just vanish without a trace or a way to get old apps. Ubuntu and debian take away things too from time to time, but there are old repos available of older software. Aur was to have this in their archives, but they don't even keep archive.
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also, I tried to use the pkg from another machine, but it tried to update from git. ERROR failure while updating working copy of fbterm git repo. I don't know how to remake it from an existing install.
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If you have the package on other machines, you should still have the package. Plus, the git repo is still there in the AUR, you can still get the PKGBUILD, but if a dead and buried program is that important to you, maybe this is the wrong distro
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I need to be able to reinstall it on other machines, but this involves me knowing how to take the fbterm-git pkg from the ~/.cache/yay directory and rebuilding it on another machine. But when it tries, it looks to the dead link in the git repo. "could not read from the remote repository." I don't know how to bypass that. When it installed on the other machines, the git repo was there. Now it seems to be gone.
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The beauty of Arch was that dead and buried programs often still find usefulness and availability. I can name at least 20 examples of this. Take this away from Arch and I will be inclined to change to something else. IMHO, Arch is great because of its ability to make the older programs useful again. If you consider the #1 spot on distrowatch, it is so because it revived the usefulness of the old while keeping up with the new also. Again, Arch isn't great just because of the bleeding edge, but the bread and butter goodness of the older setups.
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Plus, the git repo is still there in the AUR, you can still get the PKGBUILD
It is indeed gone, perhaps someone approved its deletion instead of simply orphaning the AUR package. If it can still be recovered from git history, then it can still be available as an orphaned package.
Anyway, there is nothing stopping you from building directly from upstream sources.
This is the upstream source that used by the once available AUR package. It had been archived and no longer maintained by the owner.
https://github.com/izmntuk/fbterm
This is a fork that is still being maintained
https://github.com/zhangyuanwei/fbterm
Last edited by liewkj (2020-06-28 05:21:35)
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I figured it out. I took the fbterm-git package from the yay cache on another machine and put it into the cloud. Then I inserted it into the yay .cache of the new install and ran makepkg -i in it. It installed.
Ugh. It installed but doesn't work... just hangs.
Last edited by archfan777 (2020-06-28 05:13:32)
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Anyway. Thank you for your replies (liewkj & Scimmia). I will figure something out using your advice. Thank you again for the help.
Last edited by archfan777 (2020-06-28 05:20:16)
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Actually, it is still available with:
$ git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/fbterm-git.git
You should just download the PKGBUILD and build the package to keep it for all future installation.
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THANKS! lifesaver
ah poo. "The authenticity of the host 'aur.archlinux.org yadayada bunch of numbers can't be established. ECDSA key fingerprint is yadayada
"fatal, could not read from remote repository. Make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. "
Last edited by archfan777 (2020-06-28 05:26:52)
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git clone https://aur@aur.archlinux.org/fbterm-git.git
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ans you can always modified "source" line in PKGBUILD to target your local file,. Archlinux is too "learn" so read about all possibilities of PKGBUILD to customize your package and about makepkg because is a powerful tool. and certainly you will learn because you became the mainteiner of your own package, and all dependencies stuff to build (and than works) successfully.
KF5 & Plasma5 (git versions) - Awesome WM
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX - AMD FX8350 - ATI Radeon HD 7970
[testing] repo
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I am grateful for the advice and help. We can mark this solved.
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To mark it solved, edit your initial post and alter the subject line by prepending "[SOLVED]"
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Please change your topic title to something that actually describes the problem while you're marking it as solved.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post
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I would say that it is an install issue, an arch issue, an aur issue, and fbterm is the problem in Arch and Arch for fbterm. SO I am correct too.
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install issue: nope, the installation of Arch Linux doesn't depend on this software.
arch issue: nope, AUR packages are not supported by Arch.
aur issue: yep. That's why I moved the topic to the AUR subforum.
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