Upload Caido to the AUR (Arch Linux User Repository)

[ZeddGrayhem]

There's currently no easy way to install Caido for Arch users. Outside of just installing the debian release which I've noticed causes a few things to stop working.

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[Sytten]

We have no experience related to distribution on Arch linux, so any guide / directions you can point us toward would be much appreciated 👍

[ZeddGrayhem]

I'm not extremely familiar with the process, but afaik it's quite straight forward. Arch wiki has a pretty clear, and well written guide on how to create and distribute a package.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Creating_packages

[apehex]

I'm in the same spot as @ZeddGrayhem !
I never wrapped a package for Arch, but this is exactly the time to learn so I'd be willing to help :D

[Sytten]

There are a few things to consider:

• Do we want to package the CLI and/or the desktop application
• The tauri bundler has an issue and PR tracking the pacman bundling: [feat] Arch support for tauri bundler tauri-apps/tauri#3728
• The CLI can be packaged from the binary on release similar to what we do here: https://github.com/caido/caido/blob/main/.github/workflows/docker-build.yml

I would suggest we start with the CLI as a github action that runs on release in this repository. I don't expect I will have time to craft myself soon, so feel free to give it a shot @apehex.

For the desktop application, I am more inclined to wait for the tauri bundler to be ready so I can just add it to our build pipeline, but we can also do something similar to the CLI in the distribution pipeline.

[apehex]

Sorry @Sytten !! I've been swept away by other projects, I don't use web proxies anymore ^^'
Still, I've seen that the standalone binary actually works out of the box on Archlinux !
Did you have the same experience @ZeddGrayhem ?

[Sytten]

All good, we will take care of it. Thanks for confirming ♥

[Sytten]

There is now an unofficial package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/caido-desktop

[rew1nter]

This unofficial package doesn't work for me at least. Shows a blank white screen only.

[Sytten]

Yeah its likely the gtk webview bug as #406, we still have not gotten around to finding a fix for it. It's a bug in the javascript JIT.

[cocoonkid]

The AUR packages work great.

But I can confirm from my side that I had
JSC_useDFGJIT=0 in the first release enabled (but did not really use it until now).

The latest version 0.29.x works great and I removed JSC_useDFGJIT=0.

No issues at all. LMK if any additional informations regarding my system is helpful.

>> electron --version
`v25.9.3`

>> uname -a
`Linux arch 6.5.9-zen2-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:51:53 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux`

[Sytten]

Interesting, I will have to take a look. @cocoonkid could you let me know the version of webkit gtk you have (apt list | grep webkit)

[meme-lord]

The commands caido and JSC_useDFGJIT=0 caido show blank window for me with this error output:

src/nv_gbm.c:288: GBM-DRV error (nv_gbm_create_device_native): nv_common_gbm_create_device failed (ret=-1)

src/nv_gbm.c:288: GBM-DRV error (nv_gbm_create_device_native): nv_common_gbm_create_device failed (ret=-1)

KMS: DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB failed: Permission denied
Failed to create GBM buffer of size 800x600: Permission denied
KMS: DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB failed: Permission denied
Failed to create GBM buffer of size 800x600: Permission denied
KMS: DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB failed: Permission denied
Failed to create GBM buffer of size 800x600: Permission denied
Failed to create EGL images for DMABufs with file descriptors -1, -1 and -1

I was able to get it working with this comand:

WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 caido

Which I got from here