On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 05:25:26PM +0200, Dominik Schrempf via arch-general wrote: > Do you know an appropriate way to deal with such cases? Is it > preferable to install the executable in a separate folder alongside > the library? For example, /opt/transcribe?
It seems your AUR package is distributing an executable blob anyway, so packing the application into /opt/transcribe looks like the cleanest solution to me. Into /usr/bin, install a solid wrapper that calls the application instead, or if it works, a symlink. If you look at the slackbuild from here https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/plain/audio/transcribe/transcribe.SlackBuild you'll see that maybe installing the .so file into the canonical directory for gstreamer plugins might be the correct way to "deconstruct" the distribution: if [ -e libgstvideosection.so ]; then mkdir -p $PKG/usr/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX/gstreamer-1.0 install -m0755 libgstvideosection.so $PKG/usr/lib$LIBDIRSUFFIX/gstreamer-1.0 fi Perhaps you can get this to work analog to Slack on Arch. You already have a dep gst-plugins-base-libs that provides /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0.
