desktube-bin

maintainer kristyancarvalho · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt binary from the project's official GitHub releases, which is a normal AUR practice; the low severity is due to the unverifiable binary from a non-whitelisted host, but it is not actively malicious or obfuscated.

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An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary from the project's official GitHub releases, which is a normal AUR practice; the low severity is due to the unverifiable binary from a non-whitelisted host, but it is not actively malicious or obfuscated.

PKGBUILD

1# Maintainer: Kristyan Carvalho <kristyancarvalho@hotmail.com>
2
3pkgname=desktube-bin
4pkgver=1.0.1
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="Control YouTube on your computer from your phone, over your local network"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://github.com/kristyancarvalho/desktube"
9license=('MPL-2.0')
10provides=('desktube')
11conflicts=('desktube')
12depends=('gtk3' 'nss' 'alsa-lib' 'libxtst' 'libnotify')
13options=('!strip' '!debug')
14source=("DeskTube-${pkgver}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz::${url}/releases/download/v${pkgver}/DeskTube-${pkgver}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz")
15sha256sums=('2736d5a544760a3bb7af40eac2375597569ca90c3caf1bf900340f6fbb94f9cc')
16
17package() {
18 local appdir
19 appdir="$(dirname "$(find "$srcdir" -maxdepth 3 -type f -name desktube -print -quit)")"
20
21 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/opt/desktube"
22 cp -a "$appdir"/. "$pkgdir/opt/desktube/"
23
24 if [ -e "$pkgdir/opt/desktube/chrome-sandbox" ]; then
25 chmod 4755 "$pkgdir/opt/desktube/chrome-sandbox"
26 fi
27
28 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
29 cat >"$pkgdir/usr/bin/desktube" <<'EOF'
30#!/bin/sh
31exec /opt/desktube/desktube "$@"
32EOF
33 chmod 755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin/desktube"
34
35 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications"
36 cat >"$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/desktube.desktop" <<'EOF'
37[Desktop Entry]
38Name=DeskTube
39GenericName=YouTube Remote
40Comment=Control YouTube on your computer from your phone
41Exec=desktube %U
42Icon=desktube
43Terminal=false
44Type=Application
45Categories=AudioVideo;Network;
46Keywords=youtube;remote;video;player;
47StartupWMClass=DeskTube
48EOF
49
50 if [ -e "$pkgdir/opt/desktube/resources/icon.png" ]; then
51 install -Dm644 "$pkgdir/opt/desktube/resources/icon.png" \
52 "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/desktube.png"
53 fi
54
55 local res="$pkgdir/opt/desktube/resources"
56 if [ -e "$res/LICENSE" ]; then
57 install -Dm644 "$res/LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
58 fi
59 if [ -e "$res/NOTICE" ]; then
60 install -Dm644 "$res/NOTICE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/NOTICE"
61 fi
62 if [ -e "$res/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md" ]; then
63 install -Dm644 "$res/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md" \
64 "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md"
65 fi
66}
67

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