[SOLVED] pencil3 not building

however · 01-11-2022, 04:59 PM

I am trying to build my own App and i am at the wireframe step.

After drawing a somewhat helpful sketch with Scribus (for precise page layout) I needed something more dynamic and found out that Pencil (seems to be) a popular linux package to design interactive mockups.

Happily I found out that it is included in SBo-git so, the usual sbopkg -i pencil3 and

Quote:

npm ERR! Error: Generated checksum for "electron-v1.4.14-linux-x64.zip" did not match expected checksum.
npm ERR! at ChecksumMismatchError.ErrorWithFilename (/tmp/SBo/pencil-3.0.4/node_modules/sumchecker/build.js:41:124)
npm ERR! at new ChecksumMismatchError (/tmp/SBo/pencil-3.0.4/node_modules/sumchecker/build.js:56:133)
npm ERR! at Hash.<anonymous> (/tmp/SBo/pencil-3.0.4/node_modules/sumchecker/build.js:203:22)
npm ERR! at Hash.emit (node:events:390:28)
npm ERR! at emitReadable_ (node:internal/streams/readable:601:12)
npm ERR! at onEofChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:579:5)
npm ERR! at readableAddChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:275:5)
npm ERR! at Hash.Readable.push (node:internal/streams/readable:234:10)
npm ERR! at node:internal/streams/transform:126:12
npm ERR! at Hash._flush (node:internal/crypto/hash:92:3) {
npm ERR! filename: 'electron-v1.4.14-linux-x64.zip'
npm ERR! }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Node.js v17.3.0

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2022-01-11T22_44_56_986Z-debug-0.log

pencil3:
Would you like to continue processing the rest of the
queue or would you like to abort? If this failed
package is a dependency of another package in the queue
then it may not make sense to continue.

(Y)es to continue, (N)o to abort, (R)etry the build?: y

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
SUMMARY LOG
Using the UNSUPPORTED SBo git repository for -current
Queue Process: Download, build, and install

pencil3:
MD5SUM check for pencil-3.0.4.tar.gz ... OK
Error occurred with build. Please check the log.

So, i thought that electron was the stop as I read on their website that electron is somewhat necessary to have some new functions to work.
Again, sbopkg -i electron and success. I built and installed electron.
Back to pencil3 and the error repeated stopping the build.

I would welcome any hints and/or suggestions.

Regards,

however · 01-11-2022, 06:18 PM

an alternative to installing 'pencil' is to simply use it by following the Setting Up instructions here

willysr · 01-11-2022, 09:48 PM

sadly, pencil is no longer updated by upstream

however · 01-12-2022, 01:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

sadly, pencil is no longer updated by upstream

Thank willysr, i noticed it but i couldn't find any other package doing a similar job.

(off topic), do/would you recommend another wireframe app for linux (maybe regularly updated)?

marav · 01-12-2022, 02:16 AM

I don't know if this helps but Arch AUR has a package with patches

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pencil/

however · 01-13-2022, 03:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marav

I don't know if this helps but Arch AUR has a package with patches

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pencil/

Thank you.

With no 'Read Me' file at least telling me what to patch (in the patch folder there are 2 files not existing on the original package folder or maybe it's me not knowing what to do) i decided not to mess with the only working App Mockups package I found for linux but I really appreciate the suggestion.

Anyway, I doubt that the patch will be an upgrade i.e. improve on the existing available widgets, options, etc.

Thanks again.

p.s.: It's a shame that the project was abandoned. It is such a sweet toy and even the 2019 version does the job perfectly.