Gnome application launcher

[patxipierce]

Sorry to rise this as an issue, but I've been using httpie desktop a lot and figured I'd share my Gnome installer shell script with everyone.

• It requires elinks and wget, which are pre-installed on many debian based distros.
• It also assumes people will want a ~/opt dir in their home.

# HTTPie installer launcher
mkdir -p ~/opt/httpie
httpieVersion=$(elinks --dump --no-numbering "https://github.com/httpie/desktop/releases/latest" | egrep -o 'v[0-9]{1,4}\.[0-9]{1,4}\.[0-9]{1,4}' | head -n 1)
downloadLink=$(elinks --dump --no-numbering "https://github.com/httpie/desktop/releases/expanded_assets/$httpieVersion" | egrep -o '\/httpie\/desktop\/releases\/download\/v[0-9]{1,4}\.[0-9]{1,4}\.[0-9]{1,4}\/HTTPie-[0-9]{1,4}\.[0-9]{1,4}\.[0-9]{1,4}\.AppImage' | head -n 1)
wget "https://github.com$downloadLink" -O ~/opt/httpie/HTTPie.AppImage
wget https://pie-assets.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/LogoIcons/GB.png  -O /home/${USER}/opt/httpie/httpie.png
chmod +x ~/opt/httpie/HTTPie.AppImage
sudo tee /usr/share/applications/httpie.desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=HTTPie
GenericName=HTTPie
Comment=HTTPie
Exec=/home/${USER}/opt/httpie/HTTPie.AppImage
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/${USER}/opt/httpie/httpie.png
StartupWMClass=HTTPie
StartupNotify=true
EOF

Thanks for the great program

[jkbrzt]

This is great, thanks! We’ll link to this from our upcoming docs.