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Please go to the relevant section of this comment in order to make both your and my life easier :)

1. Errors when starting the app like: the chat area is all blue
2. (Obsolete) I get an error when upgrading packages

Now, to the resolutions!

1. The app opens but I got a blue screen and nothing more / The app refuses to start / ...

The package depends on Node.js native stuff which are compiled at build time, which makes it break on Electron updates.

With a PKGBUILD between 2020-11-15 till 2021-09-08, you should always have gad a correct matching between Electron and Franz versions.

After 2021-09-08, while the Electron packages follows just the official Arch package dependency, as it is based on not-rolling versions (AKA following a specific Electron branch) breakages are unlikely.

If you would like to help me on this, whenever you have problems starting it, do the following:

1. Open Franz
2. Franz is broken: maybe for a recent update?
3. Reinstall Franz from AUR; this will make it rebuild the native blobs
4. Re-open Franz
5. Franz should work fine; if so, it was a Node.js/Electron/else update problem

If the above steps help you, report the package as outdated here and write in the comment something like:

Electron update broke Franz

If you have some other issues, you should open the developer tools and give me its output, in addition to what is your environment, so I can figure out if it is a packaging issue (my job to fix) or an upstream/code issue (their job to fix); in the second case, I will open a bug request and mention it in a comment, so that you can track it.

2. (Obsolete) I cannot upgrade Electron

The following resolution is not valid since 2021-09-08, it is kept for historic purposes

This is intended; since the PKGBUILD for Franz 5.5.0-4, the package marks as dependency a version-locked Electron package in order to avoid issues with binary modules over upgrades.

In such scenario, you should, assuming _electron="electron" in the PKGBUILD (meaning the Electron used is bundled in the package electron):

1. Mark this package as out of date
2. Do you regular updates with: pacman -Syu --ignore electron

If you want however to upgrade the Electron package, do

1. Upgrade the electron package with pacman -S --assume-installed electron=FRANZ.REQUIRED.VERSION electron
2. Rebuild Franz if needed

Hope this was a good explanation, might get updates if I missed something :)

I had a checksum verification error please think about downloading the package from releases and fix the sha256sums

source=("https://github.com/meetfranz/${pkgname}/releases/download/v${pkgver///-}/franz-${pkgver///-}.tar.gz" "franz.desktop") sha256sums=('def34db93c4b35ec9e33eb96ff4e47f54955c85edbb57267ac72d58a3ecd06ea' '79813a0f7db258fc7c4969cc20b412771530865bec36c0a4b9e18a2e435d97b8')

Please update this package it has been 18 days since it was marked out of date.

@ruffy Are you using dunst by any chance? If so, run systemctl --user daemon-reload, that ought to fix it.

Does anyone knows why franz freezes after a notification?

It should work now

Fails for me with

Error: At least electron-updater 2.18.2 is required by current electron-builder version. Please set electron-updater version to "^2.18.2" at checkMetadata (/mybuild/build/franz/src/franz-5.0.0-beta.14/node_modules/electron-builder-lib/src/util/packageMetadata.ts:77:11) at /mybuild/build/franz/src/franz-5.0.0-beta.14/node_modules/electron-builder-lib/src/packager.ts:259:5 at Generator.next (<anonymous>) at runCallback (timers.js:773:18) at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:734:5) at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:711:5)</anonymous>

The fix harkov mentioned should be applied to the PKGBUILD.

I am now able to successfully install and get rid of franz4-bin, thanks! Could someone possibly fix the dock/launcher icon though? In GNOME it's just the generic "no icon" gear icon instead of the proper Franz icon. Thanks in advance!

@harkov, worked for me too, thanks!

@harkov, thanks!