umake4alt

Docker-based script for installing software using Ubuntu Make into ALT Linux.

Under the hood this script uses Docker to obtain Ubuntu file-system, add Ubuntu Make PPA here, and then install ubuntu-make into the container. The created Docker images will be named with um- prefix, you can remove them manually later.

For ordinary home user this script expects that sudo is installed and enabled using su -l -c "usermod -a -G wheel $USER; control sudo wheelonly; control sudoers relaxed; control sudoreplay wheelonly; control sudowheel enabled;" (as in SimplyLinux).

The umake4alt.sh takes the same arguments as umake. For example one can use ./umake4alt.sh electronics arduino to install modern Arduino IDE 2.x.

Note: if you have configured proxy in your network, then you can supply its address as the argument to the application - http_proxy=http://192.168.12.34:8000 ./umake4alt.sh electronics arduino .

How to start using this script:

1. Install Docker and dependencies to the host ALT Linux system

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install docker-io git
   

2. Add current user to the docker group

   sudo usermod -a -G docker $USER
   sudo systemctl enable docker.{service,socket}
   

   then reboot machine.

3. Clone this repository

   cd ~/Downloads
   git clone https://github.com/N0rbert/umake4alt.git
   

4. Install some application from Ubuntu Make database

   cd umake4alt
   chmod +x umake4alt.sh
   ./umake4alt.sh electronics arduino
   

5. Reboot after installing the last package, then enjoy the software from Ubuntu Make on your ALT Linux system.

Note: most of the applications install their stuff into ~/.local/share/umake with desktop icons in ~/.local/share/applications and ~/.local/share/umake/bin location is added to $PATH variable via ~/.bashrc; the umake config is located at ~/.config/umake file.
To keep user's system stable the following frameworks are not automatically added to environment varibles - android android-ndk, android android-platform-tools, dart dart-sdk, dart flutter-sdk, go go-lang, java adoptopenjdk, java openjfx, kotlin kotlin-lang, maven maven-lang, nodejs nodejs-lang, rust rust-lang, web chromedriver, web geckodriver, web phantomjs; user can find their paths at subdirectories of ~/.local/share/umake/ and then add to $PATH manually.

Warning: author of this script can't provide any warranty on data safety in parts of your home-folder. Be careful!

Known issues

Some packages need manual actions.

Android NDK

Android NDK requires installation of Clang - install it with:

sudo apt-get install /usr/bin/clang

Android Platform Tools

Android Platform Tools requires installation of one package - install it with:

sudo apt-get install android-tools

Arduino legacy and Arduino IDE

User should be a member of uucp and dialout groups - run

sudo usermod -a -G uucp,dialout $USER

to do so.

Modern Arduino IDE 2.x has some problems with sandbox, which may be temporarily fixed by supplying --no-sandbox command-line parameter.
To fix on desktop-file level use the following one-liner:

sed -i "s/^Exec=arduino-ide$/Exec=arduino-ide --no-sandbox/g" ~/.local/share/applications/arduino-ide.desktop

and then launch Arduino IDE 2.x from menu as usual.

Eclipse family

Eclipse needs Java to operate - install it with:

sudo apt-get install java-17-openjdk-headless java-17-openjdk-devel

JetBrains CLion and others

JetBrains products need compilers and interpreters depending on user demands.

Minimal set of packages are the following:

# CLion (C/C++, Qt)
sudo apt-get install etersoft-build-utils gcc-c++
sudo apt-get install qt5-base-devel qt6-base-devel

# Rider (Mono)
sudo apt-get install mono-devel-full

# RubyMine (Ruby)
sudo apt-get install /usr/bin/erb /usr/bin/irb /usr/bin/rdoc /usr/bin/ri /usr/bin/ruby

# GoLand (Go)
sudo apt-get install golang

For other products it may be varied.

LiteIDE

LiteIDE needs one package to be installed - install it with

sudo apt-get install libqt5-core

if it is not already installed.

LightTable

LightTable needs libgconf package to be installed by

sudo apt-get install libGConf

then it may be operational.

NetBeans

NetBeans needs Java to operate, install it with

sudo apt-get install java-17-openjdk-headless java-17-openjdk-devel

and then run NetBeans as usual.

SuperPowers

Superpowers has some problems with sandbox, which may be temporarily fixed by supplying --no-sandbox commandline parameter. To fix on desktop-file level use the following one-liner:

sed -i "s/^Exec=superpowers$/Exec=superpowers --no-sandbox/g" ~/.local/share/applications/superpowers.desktop

and then launch Superpowers from menu as usual.

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code needs two packages to operate, install them by

sudo apt-get install libgtk+2 libGConf

if they are not already installed.

Visual Studio Code has some problems with sandbox, which may be temporarily fixed by supplying --no-sandbox commandline parameter. To fix on desktop-file level use the following one-liner:

sed -i "s/^Exec=visual-studio-code$/Exec=visual-studio-code --no-sandbox/g" ~/.local/share/applications/visual-studio-code.desktop

and then launch Visual Studio Code from menu as usual.