Qt5-webengine got depricated, Stremio no longer works on Arch linux, possibly all of them. Any plans to update to qt6?

[bidzapfc]

As can be read here

https://www.mail-archive.com/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/msg01371.html

Rojas just pulled the plug on qt5, and with it a lot of things stopped working across many arch distros. Smart cookie there, but regardless, we are currently getting

QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component
qrc:/main.qml:2:1: plugin cannot be loaded for module "QtWebEngine": Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt/qml/QtWebEngine/libqtwebengineplugin.so: (libicui18n.so.76: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
QObject::connect: Cannot connect MainApp::receivedMessage(QVariant, QVariant) to (nullptr)::onAppMessageReceived(QVariant, QVariant)

Any ideas how to fix it?

[dagli]

Installing icu76 package from AUR fixed it for me.

[bidzapfc]

Yep, confirmed

[benchile55]

Installing icu76 package from AUR fixed it for me.

Why doesn't stremio shell work with qt6-webengine?

[genericCandy]

Installing icu76 package from AUR fixed it for me.

While that workaround can work for some time, the fact is that Qt5-webengine is EOL, and Stremio should strive to transition to Qt6 as soon as possible, as Qt5's fork of chromium allegedly ships with unfixed vulnerabilities (according to the previous Arch maintainer of qt5-webengine

[jocker-il]

Installing icu76 package from AUR fixed it for me.

didn't fix it for me - I detail me struggles here #462