aw-cli, aw-qt, aw-server etc doesn't want to work from the AUR package

[tobixen]

• I am on the latest ActivityWatch version.
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

• Archlinux:
• 0.13.2-2 from AUR:

Describe the bug

Since the documentation at https://docs.activitywatch.net/en/latest/getting-started.html suggests installing through AUR, I take the chance on reporting this issue here rather than at the AUR pages.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1. Install activitywatch on Archlinux through AUR, i.e. yay -S activitywatch.
2. some binaries are installed under /usr/bin, including aw-cli, aw-qt and aw-server
3. Run aw-cli and it fails, apparently the aw_cli library wasn't installed (it exists under the aw-core github repository).
4. Run aw-server and it fails because of ... wrong version of flask?
5. Run aw-qt. Since this automatically will start aw-server, the error from above is seen.

Errors:

$ aw-cli
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/aw-cli", line 5, in <module>
    from aw_cli.__main__ import main
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'aw_cli'

$ aw-server
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/aw-server", line 5, in <module>
    from aw_server import main
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/aw_server/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .main import main
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/aw_server/main.py", line 9, in <module>
    from .server import _start
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/aw_server/server.py", line 19, in <module>
    from .custom_static import get_custom_static_blueprint
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/aw_server/custom_static.py", line 24, in <module>
    from flask import (
    ...<4 lines>...
    )
ImportError: cannot import name 'escape' from 'flask' (/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/flask/__init__.py)

The python-flask version installed is 3.1.0-2 - latest version from Archlinux repositories. This seems to be an Archlinux problem, as the pyproject.toml for the server specifices that flask 2 should be utilized.

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[BelKed]

Similar to #1142

[tobixen]

Closing this since this is an issue with the activitywatch AUR package and not ActivityWatch itself.

Very well, but then this is a documentation bug, since the doc suggests one should use AUR :-)

[tobixen]

Oh, the official doc does indeed link to the activitywatch-bin package rather than the activitywatch package. It could be useful with a hint about this in the doc nevertheless.

[ErikBjare]

Good point, fixed in ActivityWatch/docs@96af528