[LINUX] build a .tar.gz to be unpacked anywhere. #433

radicaled · 2014-04-17T19:28:33Z

Generates a .tar.gz based off the current Linux build.

Includes 2 simple scripts, install.sh and uninstall.sh, that install/uninstall desktop and command-line entries for brackets.

According to adobe/brackets/issues/5021 this binary tarball might make actual packaging easier for maintainers.

This is the easiest way for non-Debian systems to run Brackets without creating a package for each distribution. The output can also be used to ease packaging for other systems (hopefully).

ingorichter · 2014-04-17T19:56:42Z

installer/linux/archive/brackets.desktop

+Categories=Development
+Exec=brackets %U
+Icon=brackets
+MimeType=text/html;


Can we define more mimetypes here? For CSS and JavaScript for example.

Now supports: text/html text/css text/javascript application/javascript

When passed the -c parameter, uninstall.sh will remove the user's local Brackets configuration.

radicaled · 2014-04-17T20:58:23Z

@ingorichter how are my changes?

ingorichter · 2014-04-18T17:36:25Z

@radicaled That looks good to me. I'll give it a try later today. Thanks

ingorichter · 2014-04-23T00:57:05Z

@radicaled I tried it out and the tar.gz is properly generated. What do you think of copying the whole folder to the final destination instead of creating links? I accidentally removed the brackets directory and I wasn't able to start Brackets anymore. This could be confusing for the end user.
Is ~/.local the right place to install applications? It seems that this was primarily intended for apps to store preferences and app data. Perhaps you could install it into /usr/local or /opt/.
Ubuntu didn't show the icon and couldn't find Brackets. I wonder if we need to call xdg-desktop-menu/xdg-desktop-icon in order to make them appear. What do you think?

radicaled · 2014-04-23T01:13:55Z

~/.local is where configuration files, .desktop files, and command line binaries that only apply to the currently logged in user go. You don't put the actual application files there.

For instance, when you download the Linux version of RubyMine or WebStorm or any of IntelliJ's excellent IDE products, you unzip them to whatever location you'd like them to be (in my case they're in ~/Development/RubyMine). Then they create the appropriate links within ~/.local to their command line binaries ("mine" for RubyMine), and create a .desktop file so that the application is recognized by the currently running GUI.

install.sh does the same thing here. A side-effect of this, and probably a benefit, is that you can install Brackets without having to use sudo.

The actual location where you unzip a .tar.gz like this is entirely up to the user: you could actually unzip it to /opt/ directly and run the install scripts from there. I could alter the install.sh to copy all of the unzipped files to a location like /opt despite its currently unzipped location, but you will have some seriously cranky Linux users to contend with.

RE Ubuntu, I don't really know why Unity isn't monitoring ~/.local/applications. I can call xdg-desktop-menu as part of the install / uninstall script, though.

jasonsanjose · 2014-04-23T16:28:17Z

installer/linux/archive/README.md

+Run ./uninstall to remove these files.
+
+Requires libudev.so.0. You may need to do this:
+  ln -s /usr/lib64/libudev.so.1 /usr/lib64/libudev.so.0


Is it possible to do this similar to the debian package? See https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell/blob/master/installer/linux/debian/package-root/DEBIAN/postinst#L81.

We create a symlink to libudev next to the brackets executable without affecting the global /usr/ dir. Chromium does the same thing.

Also, for completeness, if we can't make this change, then we should add a 32-bit example ln command. I guess I should ask, have you tested this build on 32 and 64-bit?

I've only tested this on on 64-bit. 32-bit is a bit of a rarity for Linux these days. However, the technique is still the same -- it's just a different directory.

I will modify install.sh to make a local symlink.

I will modify install.sh to make a local symlink. [for libudev.so.0]

Looking into it, I probably shouldn't do this. Distributions store their library files in different locations. I might end up writing a pretty gnarly bash script to support every distro and its library paths. I will update the README instead.

What about the last script on this wiki page from node-webkit https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/The-solution-of-lacking-libudev.so.0. Seems like reasonable approach without getting too gnarly?

jasonsanjose · 2014-04-23T16:36:40Z

Great work @radicaled! Thanks for your help.

A few suggestions for moving forward:

Post 32 and 64-bit archives to https://github.com/adobe/brackets/releases for testing. @ingorichter can help you here.
Log known good and bad linux configurations

ingorichter · 2014-04-23T16:42:07Z

@jasonsanjose I have only tested it briefly yesterday on 64 bit Linux. So the symlink won't probably work 32 bit Linux.

Only seems to be Unity that is not watching ~/.local/share/applications right now.

radicaled · 2014-04-23T20:10:10Z

Latest changes should now register .desktop file for Ubuntu's Unity.

Let me know if it's OK: if not I will provision a fresh Ubuntu VM and take a closer look.

radicaled · 2014-04-24T00:10:08Z

@jasonsanjose I can't find your comment, so I'm replying to it here:

What about the last script on this wiki page from node-webkit https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/The-solution-of-lacking-libudev.so.0. Seems like reasonable approach without getting too gnarly?

I guess that works -- anyone running a distribution not in that list should have the know-how to perform the symlink themselves, I hope.

Only works on Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, and Arch.

radicaled · 2014-05-01T04:42:52Z

The install script has been augmented with the technique outlined here: https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/The-solution-of-lacking-libudev.so.0

Seems to work beautifully.

What's next?

ingorichter · 2014-05-01T06:35:51Z

I'll give a test run tomorrow morning. Thank you for working on this.

ingorichter · 2014-05-02T15:26:09Z

@radicaled This looks good to me and Brackets shows up in the menu. There are two things that could be added to the brackets.desktop file:

A comment like "Code the Web" (that's what we say on brackets.io)
A version to indicate the sprint

But these are nice to haves. If there are no other issues or objections, I'm going to merge it before we branch into release, since I'd like to build the archive for the upcoming release.

[LINUX] build a .tar.gz to be unpacked anywhere.

radicaled added 2 commits April 17, 2014 15:19

[LINUX] build a .tar.gz to be unpacked anywhere.

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This is the easiest way for non-Debian systems to run Brackets without creating a package for each distribution. The output can also be used to ease packaging for other systems (hopefully).

Linux .tar.gz script should clean up after itself.

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ingorichter reviewed Apr 17, 2014
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radicaled added 2 commits April 17, 2014 16:33

Linux .tar.gz: support more mimetypes via brackets.desktop

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Now supports: text/html text/css text/javascript application/javascript

Linux uninstall script: optionally remove Brackets config.

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When passed the -c parameter, uninstall.sh will remove the user's local Brackets configuration.

ingorichter self-assigned this Apr 18, 2014

jasonsanjose reviewed Apr 23, 2014
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radicaled added 2 commits April 23, 2014 15:29

Call xdg-desktop-menu for GUIs not monitoring ~/.local.

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Only seems to be Unity that is not watching ~/.local/share/applications right now.

Augment README.md.

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njx mentioned this pull request Apr 28, 2014

rpms for Red Hat based Linux distros adobe/brackets#7601

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When possible, automatically symlink to libudev.so.0

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Only works on Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, and Arch.

Fix up some Markdown rendering errors in README.md.

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Merge pull request #433 from radicaled/linux_targzip

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[LINUX] build a .tar.gz to be unpacked anywhere.

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Merge pull request #433 from radicaled/linux_targzip

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