openwork/packaging/aur

Arch Linux package

Use this directory to build and install the OpenWork package locally on Arch Linux without Docker.

What this packaging does

• Targets x86_64 and aarch64 Arch Linux.
• Downloads the published Electron GitHub release asset for the current architecture.
• Installs the Electron bundle under /opt/openwork.
• Adds /usr/bin/openwork, a desktop entry, and the OpenWork icon.

Prerequisites

• Arch Linux on x86_64 or aarch64
• base-devel
• curl

Install the packaging prerequisites once:

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel curl

Build and install the current packaged version

From the repo root:

cd packaging/aur
makepkg -si

That will:

1. download the Electron tarball pinned in PKGBUILD
2. build an Arch package such as openwork-<version>-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
3. install it locally with pacman

After install, openwork is available as the desktop launcher. The bundled sidecars remain inside /opt/openwork; the package does not claim the standalone opencode command.

Update the package to a newer release

If the GitHub release version changed, refresh the packaging metadata first:

scripts/aur/update-aur.sh v0.13.4

Then rebuild:

cd packaging/aur
makepkg -si

Build without installing

cd packaging/aur
makepkg -s

This leaves the built package in packaging/aur/ so you can install it later with:

sudo pacman -U openwork-<version>-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Verify the installed app

openwork

If you want to confirm the package contents first:

pacman -Ql openwork