Re: The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian stable
Gene Heskett (gheskett@shentel.net) wrote:
> On Friday 05 March 2021 03:08:00 Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> > They provide appimage, just download and run it.
>
> Which works, but I just now looked at .profile, and found that when I
> looked at my $PATH, AppImage was not being added. I had several months
> ago, created a $HOME/AppImages directory to store them in.
When using upstream software, it's your responsibility to configure your
shell the way you need, or to set up symlinks.
I don't know anything about inkscape or AppImage, but let's say you've
installed this inkscape thing under /opt/inkscape. Let's also say it
has exactly one user-invokable program, /opt/inkscape/bin/inkscape, and
that you would like to be able to run it by typing "inkscape" in your
shell.
In that (extremely common) situation, you have two ways to proceed:
1) Adjust your dot files so that /opt/inkscape/bin is added to your PATH
environment variable.
2) Create a symbolic link from /usr/local/bin/inkscape to
/opt/inkscape/bin/inkscape.
Number 1 can be done without root privileges, but is *so* freaking hard
to explain to people because of all the utterly batshit insane ways
that people can login nowadays. There is no way to give instructions
that will work for every Debian user.
Number 2 is simpler, and will make the program available to all users
on the system, but requires root privileges to enact.
If this $HOME/AppImages thing is like a personal /opt directory, then
choice number 2 for this situation would be to make the symlink from
$HOME/bin to $HOME/AppImages/whatever/inkscape. This presumes that
you've already managed to configure your login so that $HOME/bin is
in your shell's PATH. This is the default for Debian console logins
(due to /etc/skel/.profile), but may not be the case for various Display
Manager logins.
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