(21st Jan, 2015 05:15 AM)IriDium Wrote:  @calhaus Ok thanks, I'll give it a try tomorrow. BTW it's Ubuntu 14.10 64bit if that should make a difference.

I think the installer should include a read.me or install.txt file to explain what is required as it is not obvious.

(21st Jan, 2015 05:28 AM)rikardo1979 Wrote:  can not run it on elementaryOS I have on mine. going to fresh install latest Ubuntu and will report back

(21st Jan, 2015 07:26 AM)rikardo1979 Wrote:  fresh installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 64bit

(21st Jan, 2015 04:07 PM)rikardo1979 Wrote:  @calhaus
can confirm that by running as root it does work fine. this was all just cos you are need to make it "idiot" prove
so as mentioned, a little README.txt would be handy

also, but this is just stupid thing, an XBian icon would be nice as as you can see the there is none on app/running app

thanks

(21st Jan, 2015 08:00 PM)CurlyMo Wrote:  What about implementing a some sort of C++ "gsudo" call inside the installer so it will ask for root permission itself?

(22nd Jan, 2015 02:47 AM)calhaus Wrote:  

(21st Jan, 2015 04:07 PM)rikardo1979 Wrote:  @calhaus
can confirm that by running as root it does work fine. this was all just cos you are need to make it "idiot" prove
so as mentioned, a little README.txt would be handy

also, but this is just stupid thing, an XBian icon would be nice as as you can see the there is none on app/running app

thanks

The icon, i've looked and works different for different environments like kde or gnome. I believe the only trick is to include it next with executable (which i'll do, with that readme also).

(21st Jan, 2015 08:00 PM)CurlyMo Wrote:  What about implementing a some sort of C++ "gsudo" call inside the installer so it will ask for root permission itself?

You're probably taking about gksudo. I thought of that but not all systems have gksu! Mint for example has it preinstalled. But Ubuntu stopped including it in the new releases (i think they have a nautilus-sudo or something like that)... and so on.

Other stuff:
I've managed to compile statically the installer for linux, so qt libraries are included. But tested it on elementary, and elementary now needs other libs... :/ Will see that next.

(22nd Jan, 2015 04:13 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  I didn't mean actually doing the gksudo call, but include some sort of C++ login that calls some sudo routine.
http://qt-project.org/wiki/How_to_get_applications_running_with_root_privileges

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In windows you should use this:

manifest.rc

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
  <trustInfo xmlns:v3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
    <security>
      <requestedPrivileges>
        <requestedExecutionLevel level="highestAvailable"/>
      </requestedPrivileges>
    </security>
  </trustInfo>
</assembly>

The manifest needs to be compiled like this:

Code:

windres -o manifest.o manifest.rc

Then add the manifest.o to the other files in gcc:

Code:

gcc ... foo.c bar.c manifest.o

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@rikardo1979, as soon as the installer is properly staticly installed it should work on all linux platforms.
@calhaus, what libs?

(22nd Jan, 2015 05:13 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  If you still have these libs needed, than staticly compiling didn't work well.

(22nd Jan, 2015 05:43 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  Can you update github so i can staticly compile the installer as well. Then i can help you with the rest.

Quote:make clean
PATH=/path/to/static/Qt/bin:$PATH
export PATH
qmake -config release
make