openwork/packaging/aur

Arch Linux AMD64 package

Use this directory to build and install the AMD64 OpenWork package locally on Arch Linux without Docker.

What this packaging does

• Targets x86_64 Arch Linux.
• Downloads the published GitHub release asset openwork-desktop-linux-amd64.deb.
• Repackages the .deb contents into an Arch package with makepkg.
• Removes the bundled /usr/bin/opencode file so the package does not conflict with opencode-bin.

Prerequisites

• Arch Linux on x86_64
• base-devel
• bsdtar / libarchive
• curl

Install the packaging prerequisites once:

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel curl libarchive

Build and install the current packaged version

From the repo root:

cd packaging/aur
makepkg -si

That will:

1. download the AMD64 .deb 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. If you also want the standalone OpenCode CLI, install opencode-bin separately.

OpenCode CLI conflict note

Recent .deb builds include /usr/bin/opencode, but the AUR package intentionally strips that file during repackaging.

That keeps OpenWork compatible with systems that already install the OpenCode CLI from opencode-bin, which should remain the owner of the global 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 v0.11.162

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