How to install TiddlyDesktop on linux (opensuse)

[Pedro Maia]

Hi,

I'm trying to install TiddlyDesktop for linux but all I can do is open an html file (main.html) and when I click at "Browse for a Tiddlywiki file" nothing happens.

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Pedro

I'm trying to install TiddlyDesktop for linux but all I can do is open an html file (main.html) and when I click at "Browse for a Tiddlywiki file" nothing happens.

I don't have access to opensuse, I'm afraid. Can you describe in more detail what you did? How did you open main.html?

Best wishes

Jeremy

 

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[Albertononi]

Hi Jeremy,

Do TiddlyDesktop need installation on Linux?

With Ubuntu 13.04, I can run TiddlyDesktop by executing the file `nw` from the downloaded folder. It works, but not very well. With an empty TW its OK. But with other ones, the window starts blinking and it is not usable.

[Jeremy Ruston]

HI Albertononi

Do TiddlyDesktop need installation on Linux?

No, my understanding was also just that one runs the nw executable.

 

With Ubuntu 13.04, I can run TiddlyDesktop by executing the file `nw` from the downloaded folder. It works, but not very well. With an empty TW its OK. But with other ones, the window starts blinking and it is not usable.

Ah, that might be the bug in v0.0.2 that affects opening TW documents from a file path with a space in it (and possibly some other symbols). v0.0.3 fixes it and will be out in a day or two,

Best wishes

Jeremy

 

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[Albertononi]

 

With Ubuntu 13.04, I can run TiddlyDesktop by executing the file `nw` from the downloaded folder. It works, but not very well. With an empty TW its OK. But with other ones, the window starts blinking and it is not usable.

Ah, that might be the bug in v0.0.2 that affects opening TW documents from a file path with a space in it (and possibly some other symbols). v0.0.3 fixes it and will be out in a day or two,

I can confirm the "space in the path" problem. When removed, all works well.

Thanks!

Albreto Molina

[Pedro Maia]

Yes, don't need to install. But when I click at NW nothing happens. Is it any dependence to run it?

[Bauwe Bijl]

Hi Pedro

On your first post I got some confusion:

I'm trying to install TiddlyDesktop for linux but all I can do is open an html file (main.html) and when I click at "Browse for a Tiddlywiki file" nothing happens.

I guess you have opened the index.html file from the folder html with a browser here?

This all became more clear in your second post where you started to mention about the nw executable.

To give proper support I cannot answer on "one liner" issues.

Could you be more precise?

Os : 32 or 64 bit (+ version number)

Tiddlydesktop 32 or 64 bit  

TiddlyDesktop in filesystem or from an other drive?

etc.

etc.

Bauwe

[Albertononi]

You might check the permissions of the file and see if it is executable.
I am not user of OpenSuse, so I don`t know if the files in your home folder are allowed by default to execute. On Ubuntu it is so.

[Bauwe Bijl]

 On Ubuntu it is so.

 

That is only true under certain conditions...
- if you unzip TiddlyDesktop in your filesystem (not true if your carry the unzipped version around on usb hd)
- if this is a simple desktop installation (and you can also be the administrator)

Let's wait for the info Pedro comes with before conclusions.

[Pedro Maia]

Hi everyone,

The system is opensuse 13.1 32bits. I downloaded TiddlyDesktop 32bits and unziped it at home folder. NW is executable. Opensuse is kinda of a security freak so I give the file all permissions but nothing changed.

[Bauwe Bijl]

Hi Pedro

With your new information I believe you have most probably issues libudev0. (a nodewebkit and linux issue on newer distro's)
Here on ubuntu LTS (long term support) it all works great.
However ... with ubuntu 13.10 we need to fix the nw executable with ghex editor and replace "udev.so.0" with "udev.so.1"
(only then TiddlyDesktop works on Ubuntu 13.10)

You could check:

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/The-solution-of-lacking-libudev.so.0

and find the solution for your Suse setup.
... I'm not sure if Suse evergreen (the Suse LTS branch) also has this issue ... you might check that setup too if you are fine with not having bleeding edge software.

Let us know the results!

Bauwe

[Pedro Maia]

Hi Bauwe,

It worked! Thanks a lot!