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Unable to get Jami working on Arch Linux

    • Closed Issue created by Jah Way @jahway603

    I'm trying to get Jami working on Arch Linux. I will explain the different scenarios I have tried below:

    1. Installed the official jami-daemon & jami-qt packages using pacman. When I run Jami here, it starts up but then I get a Segmentation fault (core dumped) when trying to create an account within the app.

    2. Installed the Arch User Repo (AUR) package called jami-all-bin. When I try to run Jami here, the system tells me I do not have a specific library available. I have looked around and the library provided by Arch is newer than what the pkg is asking for. I then changed that PKGBUILD and tried using different .deb files (Deb 11, Deb 10, Ubuntu 22.04, etc) and they all had different library requirements -- this AUR pkg is pulling the binary from the .deb file and then installing it on the system.

    If I could better understand what needs to happen, then I believe I may be able to create a source based Arch package that work. Please help me out as I'd like to try out Jami and not being able to get it working is frustrating. Thanks.

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    • Jah Way
      Jah Way @jahway603 ·
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      Forum post of this issue is here https://forum.jami.net/t/unable-to-get-jami-working-on-arch-linux/1846

    • Vladimir Stoiakin
      Vladimir Stoiakin @Vladimir ·

      For me Arch Linux packages don't even start (a crash on startup since updating opendht to 2.4.10). But there is no much sense to investigate this because these packages are outdated. I suggest to modify official PKGBUILD's and compile actual versions. Here is the versions that work for me:

      opendht 2.4.12
      jami-daemon commit 5e35e71d0959923ee3a0180b988ea7175f1530fb
      pjproject commit 3b78ef1c48732d238ba284cdccb04dc6de79c54f
      jami-qt commit 6498dadd68689d75baae3126e6b164791da5ee75

    • Jah Way
      Jah Way @jahway603 ·
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      Thanks for those working commits @Vladimir, as this will be helpful in getting Jami working for others on Arch. I started creating some unofficial packages on AUR with this info you've provided. I need to test these more and also create a replacement jami-qt package as upstream's package doesn't work with my newly created packages called jami-daemon-wtf and opendht-wtf.

    • Jah Way
      Jah Way @jahway603 ·
      Author

      Just published the jami-qt-wtf package on AUR & can confirm that it is working!!! Thank you again @Vladimir for sharing those working commits.

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