Installing Wappler on Arch linux 2025

Wappler General Need Help
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Hello,

I am having trouble installing Wappler on my machine running Arch Linux. I followed the guide provided by the community here: Installing Wappler on Arch Linux in 2022

However i get the following error:

~/Downloads > sudo pacman -U wappler-7.3.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "gtk>=3.9.10", a dependency of "wappler"
warning: cannot resolve "libx111.4.99.1", a dependency of "wappler"
warning: cannot resolve "libxcomposite0.4.5", a dependency of "wappler"
warning: cannot resolve "libxdamage1.1", a dependency of "wappler"
warning: cannot resolve "nspr4.9-2\~", a dependency of "wappler"
warning: cannot resolve "nss3.30", a dependency of "wappler"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
wappler

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? \[y/N\]
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'gtk>=3.9.10' required by wappler
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libx111.4.99.1' required by wappler
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libxcomposite0.4.5' required by wappler
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'libxdamage1.1' required by wappler
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'nspr4.9-2\~' required by wappler
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'nss3.30' required by wappler

But i do have these packages installed.

If i choose to skip packages I instead get:
there is nothing to do

I understand that this way of installing is not officially supported but was wondering if anyone has any experience with this

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Solution was removing all these packages from the .PKGINFO file while installing using debtap. After that installation worked without issues!

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So you did had all those packages installed with the right version already?

4

Exactly.

Just for clarity for anyone coming across this post having similar issues:

During converison using debtap, this was the list of packages in .PKGINFO I was prompted to edit. I have marked the packages I removed.

depend = aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc
depend = alsa-lib
depend = atk>=2.32.0
depend = at-spi2-core
depend = bash-completion
depend = cairo
depend = gtk3
depend = gtk>=3.9.10         # DELETED
depend = hicolor-icon-theme
depend = libcups>=1.7.0
depend = libx11
depend = libx111.4.99.1      # DELETED
depend = libxcb
depend = libxcomposite
depend = libxcomposite0.4.5  # DELETED
depend = libxdamage
depend = libxdamage1.1       # DELETED
depend = libxext
depend = libxfixes
depend = libxkbcommon
depend = libxrandr
depend = mesa
depend = nspr
depend = nspr4.9-2~          # DELETED 
depend = nss
depend = nss3.30             # DELETED
depend = pango

As you can see its only the version-specific duplicate packages which caused the conflict. And my system had all the packages, seemingly with the correct version, already installed so I didn't need to install them myself.

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I just checked which versions of the packages I have installed and compared them to the ones in the PKGINFO file.

Package name Version in PKGINFO On my machine
gtk 3.9.10 3.24.51-1
nss 3.30 3.117-1
libx11 1.4.99.1 1.8.12-1
libxdamage 1.1 1.1.6-2
libxcomposite 0.4.5 0.4.6-2
nspr 4.9-2~ 4.37-1
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Maybe you can file a bug about the duplicate package names generated by the used debtap:

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