Simple Screen Recorder cannot be installed

[redragonx]

Hi, I’m unable to install this package due to the following error

[🔴] × yay -S simplescreenrecorder
:: Resolving dependencies...
:: There are 4 providers available for simplescreenrecorder:
:: Repository AUR:
    1) simplescreenrecorder  2) simplescreenrecorder-bin  3) simplescreenrecorder-git  4) simplescreenrecorder-wlroots-git
Enter a number (default=1):
:: Calculating conflicts...
:: Calculating inner conflicts...

Aur (1) simplescreenrecorder-0.4.4-3

:: Proceed to review? [Y/n]: y

:: Downloading PKGBUILDs...
 PKGBUILDs up to date
 nothing new to review
fetching devel info...
==> Making package: simplescreenrecorder 0.4.4-3 (Fri 12 Jul 2024 07:57:53 PM MDT)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Updating ssr git repo...
  -> Found ffmpeg7.patch
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    ssr ... Passed
    ffmpeg7.patch ... Passed
==> Making package: simplescreenrecorder 0.4.4-3 (Fri 12 Jul 2024 07:57:53 PM MDT)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Updating ssr git repo...
  -> Found ffmpeg7.patch
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    ssr ... Passed
    ffmpeg7.patch ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Creating working copy of ssr git repo...
Cloning into 'ssr'...
done.
Switched to a new branch 'makepkg'
==> Starting prepare()...
patching file src/AV/Output/AudioEncoder.cpp
patching file src/AV/Output/AudioEncoder.h
patching file src/AV/Output/BaseEncoder.cpp
patching file src/AV/Output/BaseEncoder.h
patching file src/AV/Output/Muxer.cpp
patching file src/AV/Output/Muxer.h
patching file src/AV/Output/VideoEncoder.cpp
patching file src/AV/Output/VideoEncoder.h
patching file src/AV/Output/AudioEncoder.cpp
Hunk #4 succeeded at 107 (offset -1 lines).
Hunk #5 succeeded at 161 (offset -1 lines).
patching file src/AV/Output/BaseEncoder.cpp
patching file src/AV/Output/Synchronizer.cpp
==> Sources are ready.
simplescreenrecorder-0.4.4-3: parsing pkg list...
==> ERROR: Cannot find the debugedit binary required for including source files in debug packages.
error: failed to build 'simplescreenrecorder-0.4.4-3':
error: packages failed to build: simplescreenrecorder-0.4.4-3

Not sure what it wants.

[Kayo]

@redragonx

==> ERROR: Cannot find the debugedit binary required for including source files in debug packages.

This was a common issue with installing AUR packages. Do this:

@BluishHumility

To get the behavior back to “normal”, the debugging option must be disabled. To do this, open /etc/makepkg.conf in an editor, for example Micro:

sudo micro /etc/makepkg.conf

Navigate down to the line that starts line with OPTIONS= and put an exclamation mark in front of debug so it looks like this: “!debug” The whole like will be something like this:

OPTIONS=( ... blah blah blah blah ... !debug ...)

[redragonx]

Thanks, I’ll try this. But why do I need to do this suddenly after a few years of using AUR?

[redragonx]

This worked.

[Bro]

@redragonx

But why do I need to do this suddenly after a few years of using AUR?

Because of recent changes Arch made to makepkg