Arch Linux support?

[doonoo]

Would it be possible to have this on the AUR?

[Tim]

If someone wants to try and convert the deb over, be my guest. But I simply don't have time to deal with all the various distros.

[doonoo]

If someone wants to try and convert the deb over, be my guest. But I simply don't have time to deal with all the various distros.

Hey, thank you for all you do. I appreciate you taking your time to reply my comment. I will try to see if the AUR repo is good, and if not, then I will use debtap. God bless you.

[Bink]

If someone wants to try and convert the deb over, be my guest. But I simply don't have time to deal with all the various distros.

I'd like to have a crack at getting the Arch AUR version working again. I maintain the AUR packages for a couple other bible apps already.

I'm wrestling with identifying the specific dependencies at the moment. So far I have:

• Python 3.11
• python-wxpython 4.2.0 (may have Python 3.11 incompatibility? Awaiting update from Arch core)
• python-espeak 0.5

Any solid pointers would be appreciated.

Version 5.2, based on Python 2.7, also had additional listed dependencies. Are these (or Python3 equivalents) still needed?

• python2-pillow
• python2-configobj
• xsel
• gst-plugins-ugly

[Tim]

For Bible Analyzer 5.5 Python 3.10 is the requirement. 3.11 may work, but I have not tried it yet.

python-wxpython 4.2.0 is for Python 3.10. wx 4.2.1 for 3.11 has been released but it is not yet in the repositories.

Any version of eSpeak should work.

[Bink]

Thanks Tim.

I have it successfully launching, leveraging Python 3.10 and python-wxpython 4.2.0, but there's still a couple things to work out (some absent GTK libs). All going well, I hope to have an update on the AUR shortly.

The issues preventing launch that I encountered, were the result of it looking under

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/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

for espeak-data and webkit2gtk-4.0 data. In the end I worked around that by creating symbolic links to the correct locations. I mention this in case this is something I might have the ability to configure a bit more gracefully?

[Tim]

Great!

[Bink]

Hi @Tim. I'm working on the 5.6.1 release Arch AUR package, but I've hit an issue.

So far I've updated dependencies to include:

• python (currently 3.13.1)
• python-wxpython
• python-mutagen
• python-lxml
• python-configobj

Where I'm hitting some trouble, is with espeak. As that project has essentially been abandoned (last update April 2014), the Arch packages supporting it, such as python-espeak, are also falling by the wayside, failing to build since Python 3.12, and seemingly no fix in sight.

I have been attempting get Bible Analyzer to make use of python-espeak-ng instead, which is based the maintained fork of espeak (espeak-ng), but so far it's failing to pick it up. Might you have some thoughts on this?

[Tim]

What has espeak been replaced with? There must be another TTS engine.

I'm not sure what the answer is on arch unless the TTS is disabled in BA altogether.

[Bink]

espeak-ng is the maintained fork of espeak.

This 2021 note from Alexander Epaneshnikov, one of the Arch Linux package maintainers says:

espeak is unmaintained for a long time. espeak-ng is a new active fork.

we need to switch dependent packages to espeak-ng and then remove espeak from
the repository.

https://archlinux.org/todo/switch-to-espeak-ng/