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bin wrappers missing junest installed executables that are symlinked in `.junest/usr/bin/` #297

Closed prijatelj closed 2 years ago

prijatelj commented 2 years ago

When trying to have all junest installed binaries from their packages be accessible to the host system, I discovered that some were not accessible within the path by adding ~/.junest/usr/bin_wrappers to my path (discord, zoom, and zotero), while others were (neofetch, rclone, gimp, krita, inkscape). I found that for certain binaries installed using junest result in a symlink to their installed exutable within .junest/usr/bin/ and that .junest/usr/bin_wrappers is missing entries for those executable binaries.

Reproduction Steps:

  1. Fresh install junest as stated in README: 1.1. git clone junest 1.2. export junest into path 1.3. run junest setup. 1.4. export ~/.junest/usr/bin_wrappers to end of path. 1.5 (optional) confirm a typical junest installed package is executable, such as neofetch, rclone, gimp, krita, or inkscape.
  2. Install a package that results in a different executable filepath than /usr/bin, with resulting symlinks in .junest/usr/bin such as /opt/app_name, usr/lib/app_name

Example of packages with atypical executable locations:

$ ls -lh .junest/usr/bin/discord 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 prijatelj prijatelj 20 Jun  9 02:39 .junest/usr/bin/discord -> /opt/discord/Discord
$ ls -lh .junest/usr/bin/zoom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 prijatelj prijatelj 22 Jul 26 12:26 .junest/usr/bin/zoom -> /opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher
$ ls -lh .junest/usr/bin/zotero
lrwxrwxrwx 1 prijatelj prijatelj 22 Jul 26 11:57 .junest/usr/bin/zotero -> /usr/lib/zotero/zotero

  1. Confirm it runs within junest using junest app_exec such as junest zotero.

  2. Attempt to execute such an atypically located executable from a package, or check which app_exec, such as discord or which discord in the terminal.

Expected behavior:

The junest installed packages' executables would execute on the host as they would if I were to run junest app_exec. The expectation of https://github.com/fsquillace/junest#run-junest-installed-programs-directly-from-host-os.

Observed behavior:

Commands are not found via host's PATH.

bash: zoom: command not found

JuNest version: 7.3.14 OS and version: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: 5.18.12-hardened1-2-hardened Shell: bash 5.1.16

Installed packages: via junest: gimp, krita, inkscape, rclone, neofetch, discord

AUR via junest yay: zotero, zoom

Verbose JuNest packages or System packages wall of text print out available upon request.

Additional information:

Attempted Workarounds Although this work around failed, I attempted to simply copy the bash script example of one that worked (e.g. ~/.junest/usr/bin_wrappers/neofetch) to create one for the missing programs, e.g. discord. I just copied the file, renaming to discord, ran chmod +x on that file, and executed it. This ran one, but then it seems junest automatically deletes these files.

A successful workaround for running these missing commands in the host terminal is to just add an alias per missing junest package's executable, e.g., adding alias discord="junest discord" within your .bashrc. However, aliases are not included into dmenu which is what I use to run my applications normally. Only those found on the path are added to dmenu, based on dmenu's arch wiki for manually adding items. I have attempted clearing the .cache/dmenu_run and restarting and notably dmenu does not include any junest installed applications, including those that are commands found in the host terminal.

fsquillace commented 2 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for the complete explanation of the problem!

Very good catch! I created a fix for it. Once tests pass I will merge to the main branch.