How to install barrier through the F-Droid repos

Marietto2008 · August 21, 2024, 11:36pm

Hello to everyone.

I’m using termux,installed through F-Droid on Android 14 installed on the Raspberry Pi 4.
This is what I did to have xfce4 running with X11 :

$ pkg install x11-repo termux-x11-nightly xwayland xfce4-session xfce4 xfce4-goodies
$ pkg upgrade

installed app-arm64-v8a-debug.apk from here :

https://github.com/termux/termux-x11/releases/download/nightly/app-arm64-v8a-debug.apk

$ termux-x11 :1 -xstartup "dbus-launch --exit-with-session xfce4-session"

nano /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.xinitrc

xterm&

at this point I can use xfce4 + X11 on Android : great. 
Now what I really miss is barrier. 
I find very comfortable to be able to share mouse and keyboard from 
Linux to xfce4 installed on top of Android through termux. 
Unfortunately,when I tried to install barrier using :

$ pkg install barrier

I saw that this package can't be installed. 
Is there an alternative method to have it ?

Licaon_Kter · August 22, 2024, 8:05am

build locally?

pkg install build-essential git
git clone https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
cd barrier
./clean_build.sh

or ask Termux to add it: Issues · termux/termux-packages · GitHub

Marietto2008 · August 22, 2024, 11:01am

Thanks. barrier can’t be compiled from source because I can’t install this package : avahi-compat-libdns_sd because it is not present on the repos.

Licaon_Kter · August 22, 2024, 11:02am

build that too? yeah… it’s a carousel

Marietto2008 · August 22, 2024, 11:19am

github.com/termux/termux-packages

[Package]: barrier and / or some of its dependencies (like avahi-compat-libdns_sd)

opened 11:17AM - 22 Aug 24 UTC

Marietto2008

package request

### Why is it worth to add this package? Because it is very comfortable to be… able to share mouse and keyboad between systems : on the left for example FreeBSD or Linux or Windows or MacOS (infact barrier can be used in all these OSes) ; and on the other side,termux-x11 installed on Termux on Android. I tried to compile barrier from source like this : ``` # pkg install build-essential git # git clone https://github.com/debauchee/barrier # cd barrier # ./clean_build.sh ``` in this case,unfortunately,it can’t be compiled from source because I can’t install this package : avahi-compat-libdns_sd because it is not present on the repos. ### Home page URL https://github.com/debauchee/barrier ### Source code URL https://github.com/debauchee/barrier ### Packaging policy acknowledgement - [X] The project is actively developed. - [X] The project has [existing packages](https://repology.org/projects) and is "well known". - [X] Licensed under an [open source license](https://spdx.org/licenses/). - [X] Not available through a language package manager: pip, npm, cpan, cargo, etc. - [X] Not taking up too much disk space (< 100MiB per architecture, exceptions can be made) - [X] Not duplicating the functionality of existing packages. - [X] Not serving hacking, malware, phishing, spamming, spying, ddos functionality. - [X] I certify that I have read [Termux Packaging Policy](https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#packaging-policy) and understand that my request will be denied if it is found lacking. ### Additional information _No response_

Licaon_Kter · August 22, 2024, 11:21am

Marietto2008 · August 22, 2024, 12:22pm

I don’t understand what you mean.

Marietto2008 · August 23, 2024, 2:38pm

Hello.

I’ve copied all the libraries needed by barrier. I see that some libraries aren’t detected even if I copied them on the right place (usr/lib) :

# ldd barrier

libQt5Widgets.so.5
libQt5Network.so.5
libcrypto.so.3
libdns_sd.so.1
libX11.so.6
libQt5Gui.so.5
libQt5Core.so.5
libstdc++.so.6
libgcc_s.so.1
libc.so.6
ld-linux-aarch64.so.1

is there a special command that register them,so that the system can detect them ? something like sudo ldconfig,but this command does not work on termux.

Licaon_Kter · August 23, 2024, 2:39pm

copied from where? you need those built for arm64 on Android… you can’t copy from random other operating systems

Marietto2008 · August 23, 2024, 3:18pm

SkewedZeppelin · August 23, 2024, 3:42pm

@Marietto2008
packages for arm64 debian won’t run on Android because they’re linked against glibc not bionic

Scary_Guy · September 3, 2024, 4:29pm

There used to be an app for Synergy on F-Droid that I got to work a few times, but it was buggy and crashed a lot. Maybe that could be updated to work with Barrier and be more stable? I’d love if that were functional again.

Marietto2008 · September 3, 2024, 5:21pm

Added on 2015 ; I don’t think it has been updated since then. It does not worth to spend time and energy to try it.