[DONE] What happened to the linux installer

[rikardo1979]

(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.

i would leave it, not many people use that OS, its not so popular. i would say, focus for most common like Ubuntu, Mint, etc..if there would be an issue in any other than user could report individually