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Improved Linux install process #358

Open jarcento opened 1 year ago

jarcento commented 1 year ago

The documentation tells Linux users to unpack the archive in their /home directory and install Processing in that location. While this works (and is shorter), it might be preferable to install the software in the /opt directory. Not only is /opt the proper location to install so-called optional software, but launch shortcuts will aslo be added to the panel and desktop.

Description of install process in /opt directory :

  1. Download the file to your /home directory.
  2. Open a terminal window, and type tar xvfz processing-xxxx.tgz (replace xxxx with the rest of the file's name, which is the version number.) This will extract the content of the archive and create a folder named processing-4.0 or something similar.
  3. Move the processing folder to the /opt directory using this command sudo mv processing-xxxx /opt/
  4. Navigate to its location cd /opt/processing-xxxx/
  5. Perform the installation ./install.sh
SableRaf commented 1 year ago

Hi @liolechien and thanks for your feedback!

@benfry: was there a specific reason for us to tell Linux users to install Processing in the /home directory as opposed to the /opt directory in the Getting Started tutorial? If not, I'll be happy to implement Lio's proposed change.