Linux on arm 64bit support

[daniel0076]

Hi Mega developers,

Thanks for the wonderful project, I am wondering if there is any official plan to support Linux on arm 64bit?
I am recently working on creating a MEGASync docker image for Raspberry Pi 4 64bit, so I had a modified fork of MEGASync, which is tested on Ubuntu 20.04 64bit on Raspberry Pi 4 and works fine (as far as I know).

I would like to know if such PRs are welcomed, and I can help on supporting Linux on aarch64.

Related issues: #303 #310 #456

[RussianNeuroMancer]

I would like to know if such PRs are welcomed, and I can help on supporting Linux on aarch64.

Try to submit it. You fix #303 and #310 by doing so after all, so I hope devs will accept your pull-request.

Is there chance you could published deb of your build.

[otomay]

This is still working? When I run ./configure it says:

Using local file for FreeImage
Extracting FreeImage
File /home/ubuntu/MEGAsync/src/archives/freeimage-3180.zip does not exist!
ERROR! Please check log files. Exiting..

Can't find anything on the web :

[Giterd]

More and more software packages are now only available in 64-bit versions. But Megasync is only for 32-bit! This makes for frustration, especially at there is now an official 64-bit Raspbian Bullseye. I am a big fan of Mega, please release an ARM64 version 11.

[kloodhu]

+1

[VictorCam]

+1

[lacamar]

With the current progress made with Asahi Linux bringing Linux to powerful ARM64 hardware, we are now at an inflection point for consumer ARM64 use. As more and more users adopt ARM hardware for regular use and even development (such as Linus Torvalds who now uses Apple M1 ARM hardware for Linux kernel development), there will be a much greater expectation for software to work on these architectures. Professional projects such as MEGAsync really should make the effort to extend their support to ARM Linux.

[archisman-panigrahi]

Workaround for those looking for how to install on arm64: I found a method to install MegaSync on Ubuntu 22.04 arm64 by adding the armhf architecture to dpkg. The same should also work on Debian arm64. https://askubuntu.com/q/1442841/124466

[hamza72x]

greater expectation for software to work on these architectures. Professional projects such as MEGAsync really should make the effort to extend their support to ARM Linux.

Quoting from Asahi Linux (m1 pro macbook, arm64)

[alfredonodo]

Workaround for those looking for how to install on arm64: I found a method to install MegaSync on Ubuntu 22.04 arm64 by adding the armhf architecture to dpkg. The same should also work on Debian arm64. https://askubuntu.com/q/1442841/124466

I can confirm that the workaround works with ubuntu arm daily build.

[alfredonodo]

Hi,
unfortunately this workaround does not work anymore with ubuntu 24.04.

[albertonieto]

Same here, running Asahi Ubunutu (24.04) on a MacBook M1

[archisman-panigrahi]

@alfredonodo New builds for Raspbian are available, so the workaround may work. Can you please check?

[alfredonodo]

@alfredonodo New builds for Raspbian are available, so the workaround may work. Can you please check?

No, unfortunately.

sudo apt install ./megasync-Raspbian_12_armhf.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'megasync:armhf' instead of './megasync-Raspbian_12_armhf.deb'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 megasync:armhf : Depends: libqt5core5a:armhf (>= 5.15.1) but it is not installable
                  Depends: libqt5gui5:armhf (>= 5.14.1) but it is not installable or
                           libqt5gui5-gles:armhf (>= 5.14.1) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqt5network5:armhf (>= 5.15.1) but it is not installable
                  Depends: libqt5quick5:armhf (>= 5.15.1) but it is not going to be installed or
                           libqt5quick5-gles:armhf (>= 5.15.1) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqt5quickwidgets5:armhf (>= 5.11.0) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqt5svg5:armhf (>= 5.6.0~beta) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqt5widgets5:armhf (>= 5.11.0~rc1) but it is not installable
                  Depends: libqt5x11extras5:armhf (>= 5.6.0) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libc-ares2:armhf but it is not installable
                  Depends: qml-module-qtquick-dialogs:armhf but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: qml-module-qtquick-controls:armhf but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: qml-module-qtquick-controls2:armhf but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.