Installing Wappler on Arch Linux in 2022

I followed Installing wappler on Arch Linux to install Wappler on Manjaro and ran into some issues. I figured out how to solve them so here you go:

1. Download the .deb from Wappler

2. Install debtap either via the Aur community repository

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or build it from git https://github.com/helixarch/debtap

3. Run sudo debtap -u to update debtap’s own repositories

4. Build the package debtap /path/to/wappler.deb

5. Press Enter when you get asked for a Packager name and package license

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6. Important: Don’t skip the next step - Choose an editor when you get asked if you want to edit the .PKGINFO and .INSTALL files

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7. Search for depend = gdk-pixbuf>=2.22.0 and remove the line. gdk-pixbuf is covered in the gtk2 dependency so that’s already covered by depend = gdk-pixbuf2. It’s a debtap package conversion issue.

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8. Close and save the .PKGINFO and close the .Install file

9. Wait until the package got generated

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10. Finally install Wappler: pacman -U path_to_your_package.pgk.tar.zst

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