On 2020-09-01 14:02, Devon McCormick wrote:
Hi - I just installed Ubuntu under Windows 10 but it's been a while
since I
have used a *nix. What is the preferred location to install it?
Thanks,
Devon
It doesn't really matter where you put it. I'd just suggest
adding bin to your PATH or making symlinks of
bin/{jconsole,jqt,jhs} to some place in your PATH, like ~/bin
Everything in the extracted directory works right out of that
directory, and uses relative paths, so system installation
isn't necessary. System installation also isn't that
convenient, as you then have to use root to install or update
packages.
So for example if you're looking at a just extracted j902 dir,
$ cd j902
$ ./updateje.sh
$ ./updatejqt.sh
Then just start J with one of
$ bin/jconsole
$ bin/jqt
$ bin/jhs
Or make symlinks
$ ln -s $PWD/bin/jconsole ~/bin/j
$ ln -s $PWD/bin/jqt ~/bin/jqt
$ ln -s $PWD/bin/jhs ~/bin/jhs
Then you can just type 'j' from anywhere to get a console.
If you want a J icon in your KDE/Gnome/&c application menu,
this probably works:
cat > /usr/share/applications/jqt.desktop <<'EOF'
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=JQt
Exec=PATH/TO/j902/bin/jqt
Icon=PATH/TO/j902/bin/icons/jgreen.png
Comment=J QT environment
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
EOF
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