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Native packages the installer can actually fetch, before task 2014 wires up the fetching. Arch (task 2022, re-scoped): the source PKGBUILD is gone — asking every user to install rust+node and compile for minutes isn't distribution. Replaced by desktop/packaging/arch/package-prebuilt.sh, which wraps the binary the Linux job already built into a .pkg.tar.zst. No second Rust build, no Arch CI image: the binary bundles nothing and resolves webkit/gtk/soup by soname, identical on both distros, with SQLite compiled in and glibc used in the safe built-old/run-new direction. CI is Debian and has no pacman, so the step logs .PKGINFO plus the full file listing for audit instead of pretending to verify. Debian (task 2074): install.sh hands the .deb to every Debian/Ubuntu user and nothing had ever inspected it. tauri.conf.json now declares libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 + libgtk-3-0 explicitly rather than trusting inference — and deliberately declares no appindicator or sqlite dep, since tauri is built with features=[] and rusqlite is "bundled". desktop/packaging/deb/verify.sh prints the generated control file, cross-checks it against what the ELF actually needs via dpkg-shlibdeps, confirms every declared dep exists in apt, and clean-container installs when a docker CLI is available. Both artifacts join the run artifact and the tagged release; install.sh grows a pacman branch so Arch/CachyOS gets a native install instead of the AppImage fallback. Still no release cut (rule 2). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SreJkbxB4gx8pPsu8QbLPi
ThoughtSync desktop — Arch package
A prebuilt native pacman package (.pkg.tar.zst), published as an asset on
every ThoughtSync release. Nothing to compile, no toolchain to install.
Installing natively on Arch matters for more than tidiness: pacman pulls
webkit2gtk-4.1 itself and the app runs against your system's graphics stack,
which is what keeps the bundled-library EGL_BAD_PARAMETER black window
(issue 2021) from coming back. It also means the app is package-manager tracked
and uninstalls cleanly.
Install
Easiest — the one-command installer picks this package automatically on any pacman system:
curl -fsSL https://git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/thoughtsync/raw/branch/main/desktop/packaging/install.sh | sh
Or grab the .pkg.tar.zst from the
latest release
and install it directly:
sudo pacman -U thoughtsync-desktop-*-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
Either way you get:
/usr/bin/thoughtsync— the app/usr/share/applications/thoughtsync.desktop— the menu entry/usr/share/icons/hicolor/*/apps/thoughtsync.png— themed icons
Launch ThoughtSync from your app menu, or run thoughtsync.
Uninstall: sudo pacman -R thoughtsync-desktop.
How the package is built
package-prebuilt.sh runs in CI (.forgejo/workflows/desktop.yml) and wraps the
binary the Linux build already produced into a pacman package — it does not
compile anything a second time.
Packaging a Debian-compiled binary for Arch is safe here because the binary
bundles nothing: it resolves libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so.0, libgtk-3.so.0 and
libsoup-3.0.so.0 by SONAME at runtime and those are identical on both distros,
SQLite is compiled in (rusqlite "bundled"), and glibc's forward compatibility
means building on Debian's older glibc and running on Arch's newer one is the
safe direction.
CI is Debian and has no pacman, so it cannot install-test the result. The build
step instead logs the package's .PKGINFO and complete file listing, so the
package is auditable from the run log; a real pacman -U is the final proof.
Previously
This directory used to hold a source-build PKGBUILD requiring makepkg -si
with rust + nodejs + npm installed. It was removed once prebuilt packages
shipped — asking every user to install a compiler toolchain isn't distribution.