vicu-bin

Proposed AUR package recipe for Vicu. This package will install the prebuilt upstream AppImage.

This is currently not pushed to aur.archlinux.org since the AUR account registration is closed at the moment.

Files

• PKGBUILD — the build recipe
• .SRCINFO — generated metadata cache. Regenerate with makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO any time PKGBUILD changes
• vicu.desktop — app launcher entry, installed to /usr/share/applications/
• vicu.png — 512×512 icon, installed to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/

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Part 1 — Steps for AUR publishing

One-time setup

1. Register account at aur.archlinux.org.
2. Add public ssh key to account.

Set upstream and push (creates the package)

cd ~/Projects/vicu-bin
git remote add aur ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/vicu-bin.git
git push aur main:master # yes they use master not main

Updating the package for a new upstream release

Whenever upstream (rendyhd/Vicu) tags a new version:

cd ~/Projects/vicu-bin
rm -f vicu.AppImage          # drop the stale cached download, see gotcha below
sed -i 's/^pkgver=.*/pkgver=NEW_VERSION/' PKGBUILD
sed -i 's/^pkgrel=.*/pkgrel=1/' PKGBUILD
updpkgsums                   # re-downloads and refreshes all sha256sums
makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO
git add -A
git commit -m "Update to NEW_VERSION"
git push aur main:master

If you only need to change something in the packaging (e.g. add a missing depends entry) without a new upstream version, just bump pkgrel instead of pkgver, regenerate .SRCINFO, commit, push.

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Part 2 — Installing locally

Download / clone this repository and run:

cd ~/Projects/vicu-bin
makepkg -si

• -s — install any missing build/runtime dependencies via pacman first (will prompt for your sudo password)
• -i — install the resulting package with pacman once the build finishes

Before updating to a never version, you must delete the *.Appimage file first:

rm -f vicu.AppImage

To uninstall vicu-bin: sudo pacman -R vicu-bin