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Thanks, eschwartz and SolarAquarion.

A fake homedir is created below $srcdir now and the installer writes everything into it.

Can't you trick the installer into writing those files into the $srcdir by faking the $HOME?

SolarAquarion, I've changed this back to the situation as it was when I adopted the package (where neither the app launcher link nor the link on the Desktop worked on the build machine because the .desktop files created by the program installer had a wrong execution path).

Now, on the build machine, the program installer again creates a link on the user's Desktop, and even worse, still with wrong Exec= content.

As proposed by you this link is no longer removed immediately, but a message in post-install directs the users to remove it on their own (and, just in case it reappears one day, also the link in .local/share/applications).

trick the installer into "HOME=$srcdir" or something like it

you should probably do an if for the " ~/.local/share/applications", because what if you build it in a chroot?

You should probably do a post_upgrade and post_install message instead of deleting stuff in the PKGBUILD or something that isn't in the build chroot

Added armv7h to archs.

Works fine on armv7h (Raspberry Pi), the PKGBUILD only lists x86_64. You need to create the ~/.local/share/applications if it doesn't exist or makepkg will fail.

If you want to use it headless on a PI but want to change the biglybt options using the GUI on your computer:

Set up X forwarding : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenSSH#X11_forwarding

SSH into the pi with -Y ; -X didn't work for me (ssh -Y 192.168.1.32)

Since SWT on arch linux arm is compiled for aarch64 and biglybt uses the x86_64 library, you need to either compile it for armv7 or find a compiled library, you can download one from https://rpmfind.net/linux/mageia/distrib/6/armv7hl/media/core/release/eclipse-swt-4.6.3-6.mga6.armv7hl.rpm ; extract the rpm and get the swt.jar file.

Move the swt.jar file to /opt/biglybt/swt/swt-unknown.jar (unknown because uname -p returns unknown for the pi, and biglybt uses uname -p to find the arch).

Install gtk and you can now run biglybt and the GUI will be forwarded.

Thank you, yochananmarqos. Added the suggested optional dependencies and set java-runtime to >=8.

This requires JRE8 or higher, please change the dependency to java-runtime>=8.

Please add jna & libappindicator-gtk3 as optional dependencies for tray icon support. See line 35 in the installer script:

    echo "(lib)jna-java is needed to display a status bar icon.  However, BiglyBT will run fine without it."

During installation without jna installed:

jna.jar not found. Without it there will not be a status bar icon. Install with pacman -S jna (Y/n)

jna is in the AUR, so that won't work.

Please also add ttf-dejavu to optional dependencies: See line 54 - 57 in the installer script:

        # Arch Linux with no desktop needs a font for AWT & install4j to run
        if [ "${DESKTOP_SESSION}${XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP}${XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP}${GDMSESSION}" = "" ]; then
            PKG_JAVA="${PKG_JAVA} ttf-dejavu"
        fi

Thanks a lot, Det! Typo fixed.