AI2 on Linux status

[Josh Higgins]

Hi all

New to the group. Just wondering what the official status of AI2 on Linux is? It has been coming soon for a while on the main site.

Starting from the already available package, I pulled the aistarter script from git and pushed the latest companion apk to the emulator and I've been testing my apps and it looks good. Are there some deeper issues with the Linux release or just no one to maintain distribution-specific packages/documentation?

Josh

[Jos Flores]

Hi Josh, welcome to the group!

No issues that we know of; part of AIs development is actually done in Linux but we don't have enough end users to make maintaining packages a priority. Most of our Linux users (as yourself) can hack their way to get this working locally.

cheers,
José

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[Alan Rosenthal]

I use Linux and everything works just fine.

Make sure to install ai32-libs.

Alan

[David APARICIO]

It's "ia32-libs" (;
The Linux package is available here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/app-inventor-open-source-dev/IbhUhzGgMKg

On Friday, May 16, 2014 12:45:18 PM UTC-3, Alan Rosenthal wrote:

I use Linux and everything works just fine.

Make sure to install ai32-libs.

Alan

On May 14, 2014 11:49 AM, "Jos Flores" <josmas...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Josh, welcome to the group!

No issues that we know of; part of AIs development is actually done in Linux but we don't have enough end users to make maintaining packages a priority. Most of our Linux users (as yourself) can hack their way to get this working locally.

cheers,
José

On 14 May 2014 11:32, Josh Higgins <joshi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all

New to the group. Just wondering what the official status of AI2 on Linux is? It has been coming soon for a while on the main site.

Starting from the already available package, I pulled the aistarter script from git and pushed the latest companion apk to the emulator and I've been testing my apps and it looks good. Are there some deeper issues with the Linux release or just no one to maintain distribution-specific packages/documentation?

Josh

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[ClickApp]

Alternatively, you can do this:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ailivecomplete/files/

Download the latest zip file, example  Ai2Offline_07Jun14.zip

Unzip it to your directory of choice, such as /home/user/ai2/  

See subdirectory and files:  

/Ai2LiveComplete$ ls -1

startAIServer.sh

startBuildServer.sh

Open two bash shells and in one run ./startAIServer.sh  and in the other shell ./startBuildServer.sh

But don't forget you may need to install JDK such as Oracles:   jdk-8u5-linux-x64.tar.gz

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

and insure you have your /usr/bin/java pointing to it, like this:   

ls -l /usr/local/bin/java

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 May 19 10:40 /usr/local/bin/java -> /home/username/Downloads/work/jdk1.8.0_05/bin/java

Then you open your Chrome browser to http://localhost:8888

And login with your favorite email address (no pw needed). 

That's it.  

You can also get the latest AI2 version from up here somewhere.   But this works for me.  I do a little on both online and offline.   Just make sure to save your projects to .aia backup files.