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Improved Linux install process

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
72/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
linux

Research direction

Open the linked getting-started documentation and locate the Linux installation instructions. Update them to clearly describe the proposed /opt workflow, then verify the rendered page and installation commands.

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Description

Tutorials

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
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Merged PRs (30d)
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