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If you'd like the old PKGBUILDs to keep working and not 404, please upvote this issue asking Signal team to not delete old packages: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/2882

SHA256 checksum for version 1.34.5-beta.1 deb file that's on the server now. ea6a25513c339fda23df72bf7c04cce624f6716a4849ee09026c57af96e07e2a

Change beta.1 to beta.5 in the .deb link and change the checksum in the PKGBUILD and it compiled and upgraded for me.

@captn3m0 it also works on my second machine. Which has an almost identical setup. Biggest difference is Gnome runs with wayland.

@lenok: I've tested, and this package (signal-desktop-beta-bin) definitely works. Maybe create an issue upstream? https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/new

Both signal-desktop and signal-desktop-beta are not starting, with this error:

Unhandled Error
Error: /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.jFvdyA: Fehler beim Mappen des Shared Objects
at process.func (electron/js2c/asar.js:140:31)
at process.func [as dlopen] (electron/js2c/asar.js:140:31)
at Object.Module._extensions..node (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1016:18)
at Object.func (electron/js2c/asar.js:140:31)
at Object.func [as .node] (electron/js2c/asar.js:149:18)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:816:32)
at Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:728:14)
at Module._load (electron/js2c/asar.js:717:26)
at Function.Module._load (electron/js2c/asar.js:717:26)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:853:19)

Seems like a similar issue to what @kohrVid has pointed out is happening with 1.32.0 beta 4 - only beta 5 is available.

@captn3m0 Thanks for writing this as it's worked quite well for me in the past. It looks like signal released a new version of the desktop client last night and deleted the old one so this doesn't work anymore. I think the PKGBUILD file needs the following added:

pkgver=1.31.0beta.2
source=("<https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/pool/main/s/signal-desktop-beta/signal-desktop-beta_1.31.0-beta.2_amd64.deb>")
sha256sums=('8f70aa5b3644a6e75273bf075113d55b4cfa8cd4f1f010a45928f4f5976b1d29')

Verified that there are no conflicts between signal-desktop and signal-desktop-beta, and now this package provides signal-desktop-beta instead.

I think this should either not provide signal-desktop (perhaps provide e.g. signal-desktop-beta), or be set up in a different way so that it doesn't conflict with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/signal-desktop-bin. The reason is that production and beta versions do not conflict and use different data locations (see https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/#install-the-beta).

if any of you are in need of the package, just go to https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases and check for the current release and the modify this PKGBUILD to use the current version and skip the integrity check.

If you'd like the old PKGBUILDs to keep working and not 404, please upvote this issue asking Signal team to not delete old packages: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/2882