| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/bcompare.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | bcompare |
| Description: | KDE Plasma 6 service menus for Beyond Compare 5. |
| Upstream URL: | https://www.scootersoftware.com |
| Keywords: | compare diff |
| Licenses: | custom |
| Groups: | utility |
| Submitter: | Musikolo |
| Maintainer: | Musikolo |
| Last Packager: | Musikolo |
| Votes: | 101 |
| Popularity: | 0.91 |
| First Submitted: | 2011-07-27 22:54 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2025-02-28 02:57 (UTC) |
@robindegen, it turns out I have the qt5-wayland package installed in my computer as a dependency of other packages I use. To prove whether it is required by bcompare, I removed it by issuing pacman -Rdd qt5-wayland. After that, I was able to start bcompare same as when the package was installed. So, since nothing changed, I installed the package back.
Please let me know if you find out something else.
Regards.
Almost a year later i finally have another machine to test it on; A clean arch+hyprland install on my thinkpad had the exact same issue with bcompare 5. Installing qt5-wayland fixed the problem in this case aswell.
The context menu plugin for kde5 should in /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kfileitemaction instead of /usr/lib/qt5/plugins/kf5/kfileitemaction
@culyun, branching and tagging is restricted in the Arch Git repos. If you still want to use the latest version of BC4, please follow the steps on the message I pinned.
Other than that, please note that BC4 is no longer maintained, so it isn't recommended to use it anymore.
I hope that helps!
@Musikolo thanks for maintaining this package.
I have a BC4 licenses but not BC5. I suspect they'll be a fair few of us in the same boat.
Any chance of tagging / branching BC4 (dcf8794f1301) Or is this when someone creates a bcompare-4 package?? Sorry for my ignorance.
Cheers
Steve
@musikolo Not at this moment but i will let you know if i do.
The only thing i can think of is that i do force Qt apps to go into wayland mode. Was that also the case for this machine? Because otherwise it just runs on xwayland and then i can imagine it would just work without.
Environment:
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
If you don't do that, theres quite a performance impact, and up until recently caused a lot of issues with nvidia cards; this is now fixed for the most part.
Hi @robindegen,
I finally managed to find a computer with Arch that doesn't have the qt5-wayland package and none of its dependencies. I installed bcompare and it worked well. So, again, you must have something strange in your computer, as qt5-wayland isn't a required dependency, at least, for everyone. If you have a chance to repeat this exercise in another computer, that would be nice to further validate.
Regards.
You can build the last version of Beyond Compare v4 I packaged (4.4.7.28397) by doing this:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/bcompare.git/
cd bcompare
git checkout dcf8794f1301c9213558b2583a956c04cf2a2135
makepkg -crs
Since you have a license for v4, you might be interested in looking at the upgrade policy at https://www.scootersoftware.com/kb/upgradepolicy .
I hope it helps!
@Musikolo
Sorry I missed your first message. I tried your 2nd comment.
B: No it does not work.
/usr/bin/bcompare: line 43: 55258 Aborted (core dumped) /bin/bash -c "exec -a $0 $EXEC $ARGS > /dev/null 2>&1" $0
C: That works fine
At some point this package was upgraded to version 5, but I don't have the licence for this version.
Is there any way to get the old package for version 4?
Pinned Comments
Musikolo commented on 2024-08-25 07:07 (UTC) (edited on 2024-10-16 03:55 (UTC) by Musikolo)
You can build the last version of Beyond Compare v4 I packaged (
4.4.7.28397) by doing this:Since you have a license for v4, you might be interested in looking at the upgrade policy at https://www.scootersoftware.com/kb/upgradepolicy .
I hope it helps!