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Thanks for this PKGBUILD, it worked well for me.

Just a small heads up that native Arch .pkg.tar.zst files are now also available from https://taproom.cider.sh/downloads if you've purchased Cider, and they work well.

For anyone having issues with this, the current best method is to download the Cider2 deb file, cider-linux-amd64.deb

Using yay, the command I used was: yay --editmenu -S cider2-bin

From there, I edited the pkgbuild:

# Download the DEB file (you can also provide a direct link)
source=("file:///home/rampantandroid/Downloads/cider-linux-amd64.deb")

From there, the install works fine.

The current pkgbuild just points to file://cider-linux-amd64/deb which is a path that will not exist. I suspect this is done to help drive people to pay for Cider2 or be forced to use Cider1 for free.

If you want to buy Cider2, it's available on Itch: https://cidercollective.itch.io/cider or via Discord and whatnot.

This didn't work for me. I installed the tarball provided in cider's taproom and it works perfectly

It looks like something broke.

 yay cider2-bin
1 aur/cider2-bin 2.6.0-2 (+9 1.85)
    A cross-platform Apple Music experience built on Vue.js and written from the ground up with
 performance in mind
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 1
AUR Explicit (1): cider2-bin-2.6.0-2
:: PKGBUILD up to date, skipping download: cider2-bin
  1 cider2-bin                       (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==>
  1 cider2-bin                       (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==>
==> Making package: cider2-bin 2.6.0-2 (Fri 24 Jan 2025 01:40:26 PM CST)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading cider-linux-amd64.deb...
curl: (3) URL rejected: Bad file:// URL
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading file://cider-linux-amd64.deb
    Aborting...
 -> error downloading sources: /home/shawn/.cache/yay/cider2-bin
         context: exit status 1


:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: cider2-bin
==> Making package: cider2-bin 2.6.0-2 (Fri 24 Jan 2025 01:40:27 PM CST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading cider-linux-amd64.deb...
curl: (3) URL rejected: Bad file:// URL
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading file://cider-linux-amd64.deb
    Aborting...
 -> error making: cider2-bin-exit status 1
 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
cider2-bin - exit status 1

If you want to create your own PKGBUILD, you can extract the 'cider-linux-amd64.deb' package, then extract the 'control.tar.zst' file from it to a file named 'control'. After that, transform the 'Depends', 'Recommends', and 'Suggests' sections into Arch package dependencies.

The current installation creates a link

/usr/bin/cider -> /opt/Cider/cider

but /opt/Cider/cider does not exist. Instead, there is a binary at /usr/lib/cider/Cider. The client does not show up in the software lists, the command line cider leads to a "command not found" error. Looks a little like a bug in the package.

Refers to cider2-bin 2.6.0-2 on Manjaro Linux (6.12-2).

Hey, may you update the PKGBUILD to newer version?

# Maintainer: gsh <gsh20040816@gmail.com>
pkgname=cider2-bin
pkgver=2.6.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A cross-platform Apple Music experience built on Vue.js and written from the ground up with performance in mind"
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://cider.sh/"
depends=(gtk3 nss libxss libxtst xdg-utils at-spi2-core libsecret)
optdepends=('libnotify: Playback notifications')
license=('unknown')
conflicts=('cider' 'cider-git')
sha256sums=('997c09c7c28ff61b3ff9ba8bc76f6feae3027674e540aaceeacf5318d6e1dc9d')

# Download the DEB file (you can also provide a direct link)
source=("file://cider-linux-amd64.deb")

package() {
  cd "$srcdir"
  bsdtar -xf "${srcdir}/data.tar.zst" -C "${pkgdir}/"
  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin/"
  ln -sf "/opt/Cider/cider" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/cider"
}

If anyone has trouble with this, you can alternatively download the .pacman version on itch.io and run sudo pacman -U ./Cider-git-arch-x64.pacman

If you have bought cider2, you need to put the deb package and the PKGBUILD file into the same directory and run makepkg.