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[Solved] electron25 is taking over 10 hours to update on Arch Linux; is there anything I can do to speed this up? (leminal.space)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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I ran yay -Syu and everything went well but electron25 has taken over 10 hours to update. Is there anything I could have done to speed things up?

Solution: I checked AUR and other people were commenting about similar issues. I swapped out the package for the -bin version.

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[–] NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I’m not sure if you’re building from source or not. If you’re using the electron25 AUR package you will be, and it will take longer to compile the whole package. You can try using electron25-bin instead to install a precompiled binary.

You might also try using Reflector to find faster mirrors.

As a side note, do you actually need electron25? The Arch “extra” repository has a number of different (and newer) electron versions packaged that may or may not meet your needs.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks for commenting. It was because I was building it. I did end up switching to -bin. It was easier than I thought. All I had to do was try to install electron25-bin and it gave me the option to remove electron25.

As a side note, do you actually need electron25? The Arch “extra” repository has a number of different (and newer) electron versions packaged that may or may not meet your needs.

I think it's just needed by balena-etcher.

[–] bready2die@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Checking for -bin options is a good rule of thumb in general when using AUR, my computer is a potato so I try to avoid building from source when I can

[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I had that same problem, I ended up choosing to skip the update to get around it for the time being. Not sure what's going on but it was downloading an enormous folder related to chromium.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks for commenting. I checked AUR for electron25, I probably should have done that before posting, and found the following comments

An update from 25.9.8-4 to 29.5.8-5 is attempting to clone about 40 GB to my disk. Is this normal?

I also had this issue @lillemets. Although I removed electron25 because it didn't seem like it was required by another package. yay -Qi electron25 It doesn't seem normal :/

This package builds from source, so I'd say yes, this is normal. In the meantime I recommend using electron25-bin instead.

I guess installing electron25-bin is an option.

[–] EddyBot@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

compiling chromium yourself (which electron basically is anyway) will result in several hours of compiling time + the whole chromium source of several dozen gigabytes