I am trying to create an online installer for a Qt6 application. In this case, it is a Python base GUI app, compiled with Nuitka.
After creating the repository and the installer itself
repogen -p packages repository
binarycreator --online-only -c config/config.xml -p packages Installer
the repo folder is filled and the installer is created. But each time I call it, I get 'Cannot retrieve distant tree'.
The question is: which remote servers are allowed, and how do I access them?
SFTP: debug mode tells me 'unsupported protocol'
FTP: connects, but asks for pw forever. Probably due to secure ftp
Google drive: seems not to work, probably because of redirections?
Nextcloud server: seems not to work, probably because of redirections?
Office365 cloud: seems not to work, probably because of redirections?
Or is the only way to configure an http server to get access to an update folder w/o pw?
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I'm working in a network that has no direct internet connection.
I have VS Code on my desktop PC and I use the "Remote - SSH" extension (version 0.55) to do development on a Linux VM. It works very well.
From time to time I have need to install other Extensions into both the desktop VS Code (which is an easily accomplished using code --install-extension <path-to-vsix>) and also the Linux end of the "Remote - SSH" server.
My question is "under these circumstances, how do I correctly install Extensions into the Linux server?"
I will describe what I do, which partially works sometimes, but I have used this process to upgrade extensions and lost features (like coloring of output) so there must be something missing. I would like to know the missing step.
Download the extension from an internet-connected computer. There is a "Download Extension" link on the Extension's page at marketplace.visualstudio.com/vscode. Copy it (however you can) onto your Linux development host.
Copy the VSIX file to ~/.vscode-server/data/CachedExtensionVSIXs/ and rename the file by getting rid of the ".vsix" extension.
Sometimes the extension becomes installable at this stage. I'm not sure what the differences are between cases when this has worked and when it sometimes doesn't work. At least it's worth trying --- go to VS Code, connect to your remote host, look in the Extensions panel and if you can install it from there, good for you. If it didn't work, close the connection to the Remote Host.
Assuming that the previous step failed, you will need to unzip the VSIX and copy it into place. The following code uses the cmake-tools extension as an example.
cd /tmp
mkdir cmaketools && cd cmaketools
7z x -tzip ~/.vscode-server/data/CachedExtensionVSIXs/ms-vscode.cmake-tools-1.4.2
cd ~/.vscode-server/extensions/
mv /tmp/cmaketools/extension ms-vscode.cmake-tools-1.4.2
cd ms-vscode.cmake-tools-1.4.2/
cp /tmp/cmaketools/extension.vsixmanifest .vsixmanifest
You can download the extension from the Marketplace and upload the extensionvsix file to the remote.
In the remote VSC use the Install from VSIX... command on the Extension bar top menu.
I'm configuring software on my first web server, so I am not totally familiar with how everything works, but here is the basic problem:
I have purchased hosting on a web server that runs on CentOS. I have been able to install postgreSQL via an install process that the hoster provides, so that my database will be local only to my home folder. That is working fine.
However, I am trying to install a postgreSQL extension called PostGIS. I have tried to compile it from source on my web server, but it now requires an additional library called GEOS. I downloaded the library from http://download/osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.6.2.tar.bz2, extracted it, and used make install to run it.
Now the problem is that it fails due to this error:
/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory /usr/local/include/geos: Permission Denied
It's not really a surprise, because it is trying to make a new directory in the system root folders, rather than within my personal home folder, which is the only one I have access to. I can't think of any other way around this. Am I just unable to install this library? Or can I "trick" it somehow into installing in in my home directory, where I have full admin rights?
I think You need to execute a command with root user privileges.
Because, make install command need root user privileges.
Like,
sudo make install
or with root user. Like,
sudo su
make install
I managed to install STS 3.8.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 - with a lot of hacking experiments. I have it working, but I am not happy with my solution.
Here is what I had to do:
Extracted the tar file into /opt/sts-bundle.
If you put it anywhere else, like /opt/sts, the TC server fails to start from STS.
With files in /opt/sts-bundle, TC server still fails to start from STS - permission errors. To get it to work you need to futz around with permissions of the pivotal-c-server subdirectories, essentially you need to open it up your group (the same one running STS) (security hole ?).
A local install in your own ~/sts-bundle fails on "files not found" while attempting to backup - all the conf files. It still looks in /opt/sts-bundle for all these config files (just to copy them to /backup). You can change the top directory of the server in STS server properties - but it still looks in /opt/sts-bundle. Seems hard-coded - don't know where. So you have to create all the config files in the conf directory in the tree rooted at /opt/sts-bundle ("touch" works - creating empty files). TC Server still fails to start with a "failed to clean" error - with no clue from the detailed message what files are being "cleaned".
I tried creating a non-privileged user "tcserver" per suggestion from the Pivotal TC Server docs. I installed to /opt/sts-bundle, while logged in as tcserver (with sudo privileges). That fails when I am using STS as a regular developer that is not "tcserver". Could not figure out how to tell TC server to run under a different user than the one that started STS.
The solution I have working and I am not happy with, starts by extracting the tar.gz file into /opt/sts-bundle, as it wants. Then changing owner and group of sts-bundle to my id and my group (same ones that are used in STS UI). I am not happy with that. It seems wrong to put things in /opt that are owned by a single developer.
I am new to Linux, and I still have some Windows habits that need to be unlearned.
The question is: how do I get the clean solution (installing using a "tcserver" user in the global /opt directory) to work for developers who are not "tcserver"? How should the tcserver user be related to the developers (same group?).
Am I making this problem harder than it should be? What am I missing?
I'm not sure this what you want, but I don't install the STS bundles in some kind of shared directory as a special user at all. I just install it in my user.home dir, as myself, and launch it from there.
It is very unsophisticated. I just download the tar.gz file, unpack it in my home dir and then launch it from a trivial bash script which looks something like this:
#!/bin/bash
/home/kdvolder/Applications/sts-bundle/sts-*/STS
That script is on my PATH. So I can just type 'STS' in a terminal and STS will start.
I don't have to do anything else and it works.
If you are trying to somehow install this so that several different users can run a shared installation then this isn't a good setup. But I think for your own personal laptop or desktop which only you are using, this simple setup is perfectly fine.
For a shared-user env, unfortunately, I don't know how to help you. It could be complicated to sort out all the permissions issues etc because Eclipse is a complicated beast w.r.t to installation of plugins etc.
I have installed "node.js" on a shared server. I have rename the directory so that it can not be found easily. Also I have my node directory in a location above /public_html.
I have also installed node on my PC for programming and testing easy on my local system vrs my web server.
What I would like to know is does this create a security risk where someone could hack my sites if they knew where my node installation files exist?
I have not added the path to my bash, so the commands have to be executed manually by using the ~ representing home, and the path. Such as:
~/pathtodir/bin/npm -v
I am running ubuntu server with Subversion 1.6.6.
In windows I use the latest Tortoise SVN compiled against Subversion 1.6.6.
I create a new Repository and when I attempt to view the repository or import my files and get the following error:
"Could not open the requested SVN filesystem"
I can view the repositories via the command line (as root) but want to view them in Tortoise. Some repositories however are fine and I can view and comit without any problem via Tortoise.
I am sure its a user / permission thing but not sure where to look?
Any suggestions are greatly accepted.
Thank you
How do you access the repository on your server? If you're using file:///, that won't work since the repository format isn't compatible between OS. You have to use either svn:// or http(s):// to access the repository (and set up the corresponding server app).
If you're already using svn:// or http:// to access the repository, you can check the apache error log or run svnserve in console mode to get more detailed error messages.
your repositories must have full read/write access for the user who runs the server (svnserve or apache).
I ended up perforoming a repository dump then re-installing ubuntu, subversion, then installed USVN (great app). I next restored the repository from the dump. Everything is working great now.