Build and install instructions about avvie HOT 5 CLOSED

I had the Flatpak working. And oh neat you got a working PKGBUILD. Will need to remind the maintainer of the non-git version to update theirs on release of Avvie v2.1.

I committed a change that allows running of the main.py straight from source. Makes testing easier.

As for native building, I assume we can just do:

$ meson builddir && cd builddir
$ meson compile
$ meson install

same thing right?

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You can build the program either using gnome builder, flatpak-builder or native build directly with meson. The latter can be done with the following commands:

meson build --prefix=/usr/local
ninja -C build install

I’m gonna submit a PR later to add the complete instructions in the readme if you want.

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Is there a way to do it without installing to system? Like if I'm just testing, I don't wanna have to enter my password.

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You can use flatpak-builder:

flatpak-builder --user --install builddir com.github.taiko2k.avvie.yml
flatpak run com.github.taiko2k.avvie

To uninstall the flatpak you can simply:

flatpak uninstall com.github.taiko2k.avvie

If you are on Arch Linux, you can use the PKGBUILD from the AUR commenting out the source and b2sums lines, put the source in src/avvie and then build & install the package with makepkg -sif

With gnome builder, you can simply select “clone repository”, then click the play button in the topbar and the IDE will automatically build and run the program

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An alternative to running without installing would be to generate two versions of the entrypoint script. One is configured for installation, and installed... the other uses paths pointing into the build tree to bind the translations to that location (<builddir>/po/).

This would allow e.g. testing translation updates without installing. Current versions of Meson ensure that the built translations are usable (have the right directory structure) in the build tree.

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