by mkurz » Sat Mar 29, 2025 7:58 pm
Hi,
I did installmake_clickable_callback(MAGIC_URL_FULL, ' ', 'https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/signal-desktop-beta', '', ' class="postlink"') and had the same problem.
What I do in general is, I have a dummy-packages package, where I do put things that I install in other ways than with pacman. E.g. I do install java with sdkman or nodejs with nvm.
Now what I did is I installed pnpm with npm:
npm install -g pnpm
And in my dummy package PKGBUILD I just added pnpm to let pacman know it is installed already:
```
pkgname='dummy-packages'
pkgver=0.1
pkgrel=1
arch=(any)
provides=(
'pnpm' # installed via `npm install -g pnpm`
# I do have some other packages here... like nodejs which I install via nvm
)
```
Just run `makepkg -sic` to install this fake dummy package.
Now you will be able to install signal.