I am very new to Ubuntu and I plan on learning python for which I need to install light table. I couldn't find any specific instructions anywhere on the net. please provide me the steps in detail. Also I couldn't find any opt folder in my home directory and most of the websites tell me that's the place I have to copy the extracted light table folder.
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Download the correct version for your system from lighttable.com.
Change directory to wherever the file is located. By default your browser will place it to your Downloads folder:
cd ~/Downloads
Unzip the archive. This will give you a folder called LightTable.
The wildcard '*' in the filename makes this command work for either the 32-bit or 64-bit downloads.
tar xzf LightTableLinux*.tar.gz
rm LightTableLinux*.tar.gz
Move the unzipped folder to '/opt'.
sudo mv LightTable/ /opt
Create a launcher file called 'light-table.desktop'
sudo nano /usr/share/applications/light-table.desktop
and put the following on it:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Light Table
GenericName=Text Editor
Exec=/opt/LightTable/LightTable
Terminal=false
Icon=/opt/LightTable/core/img/lticon.png
Type=Application
Categories=GTK;Utility;TextEditor;Application;IDE;Development;
Finally, create a symlink to enable calling Light Table from a terminal:
sudo ln -s /opt/LightTable/LightTable /usr/local/bin/light-table
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How can add LightTable to my Open With... list of programs, for text files? – a06e Mar 24 '15 at 13:26
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@becko see this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/162612/how-can-i-add-an-application-to-the-list-of-open-with-applications – Parto Mar 24 '15 at 21:03
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this does not work anymore: sudo ln -s /opt/LightTable/LightTable /usr/local/bin/light-table – Kaspacainoombro Nov 12 '20 at 07:26
/home/name, and the path of opt is simply/opt. You don't have to extract it to opt. You can simply put it in your home directory and run it from there. – muru Jul 16 '14 at 12:17