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Symlink the arduino binary #7593

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Add symlink creation and removal lines. This will need sudoers password.
2E0PGS May 5, 2018
f056137
Ensure password request message goes on new line.
2E0PGS May 5, 2018
69c5765
Display a more user friendly error if script isn't ran as root. symlink.
2E0PGS May 23, 2018
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24 changes: 24 additions & 0 deletions build/linux/dist/install.sh
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Expand Up @@ -66,6 +66,12 @@ xdg_install_f() {
# Make Arduino IDE the default application for *.ino
xdg-mime default ${RESOURCE_NAME}.desktop text/x-arduino

# Add symlink for arduino so it's in users path
echo "" # Ensure password request message is on new line
if ! ln -s ${SCRIPT_PATH}/arduino /usr/local/bin/arduino; then
echo "Adding symlink failed. Hope that's OK. If not then rerun as root with sudo."
fi

# Clean up
rm "${TMP_DIR}/${RESOURCE_NAME}.desktop"
rmdir "$TMP_DIR"
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -98,6 +104,12 @@ simple_install_f() {
chmod u+x "${XDG_DESKTOP_DIR}/${RESOURCE_NAME}.desktop"
fi

# Add symlink for arduino so it's in users path
echo "" # Ensure password request message is on new line
if ! ln -s ${SCRIPT_PATH}/arduino /usr/local/bin/arduino; then
echo "Adding symlink failed. Hope that's OK. If not then rerun as root with sudo."
fi

# Clean up temp dir
rm "${TMP_DIR}/${RESOURCE_NAME}.desktop"
rmdir "${TMP_DIR}"
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -138,6 +150,12 @@ xdg_uninstall_f() {
# Remove Arduino MIME type
xdg-mime uninstall "${SCRIPT_PATH}/lib/${RESOURCE_NAME}.xml"

# Remove symlink for arduino
echo "" # Ensure password request message is on new line
if ! rm /usr/local/bin/arduino; then
echo "Removing symlink failed. Hope that's OK. If not then rerun as root with sudo."
fi

}

# Uninstall by simply removing desktop files (fallback), incl. old one
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -169,6 +187,12 @@ simple_uninstall_f() {
rm "${XDG_DESKTOP_DIR}/${RESOURCE_NAME}.desktop"
fi

# Remove symlink for arduino
echo "" # Ensure password request message is on new line
if ! rm /usr/local/bin/arduino; then
echo "Removing symlink failed. Hope that's OK. If not then rerun as root with sudo."
fi

}

# Update desktop file and mime databases (if possible)
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