Designer Launcher Install script failure

Ignition 8.3 Early Access
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Hello, I was trying to use the install.sh script to install the designer launcher when I ran into this error:

Installing Designer Launcher Desktop Shortcut with 'xdg-desktop-icon install'
./install.sh: line 78: update-desktop-database: command not found

I downloaded the designerlauncher.tar.gz from my local install, which is the one released Dec 14. A quick peek into the script and it seems like it's missing that function. If there are no plans for another release just to fix this, may I have the missing function? Thank you.

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That's usually an executable provided by your distro. What distro/version is this?

(In my Kubuntu install, it is supplied by the desktop-file-utils package.)

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Hi Phil,

Thanks for the heads up, that was exactly the problem. After installation succeeds, I tried to run the launcher script and get the following error in my designerlauncher.log:

INFO [CompositeClassRejectListFilter] [2024/12/18 09:43:07]: Initialization performed successfully
INFO [CompositeClassRejectListFilter] [2024/12/18 09:43:07]: JVM-wide ObjectInputFilter set up successfully
INFO [CompositeClassRejectListFilter] [2024/12/18 09:43:07]: Platform serialFilter has 88 pattern(s)
INFO [DesignerLauncher ] [2024/12/18 09:43:07]: Set initial logging level to INFO
ERROR [RuntimeException ] [2024/12/18 09:43:07]: Uncaught exception in thread: main
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no glassgtk3 in java.library.path: /usr/java/packages/lib:/usr/lib64:/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.startup(QuantumToolkit.java:300)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:293)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.startup(PlatformImpl.java:163)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.startToolkit(LauncherImpl.java:659)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:679)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication$2(LauncherImpl.java:196)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no glassgtk3 in java.library.path: /usr/java/packages/lib:/usr/lib64:/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:2434)
at java.base/java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:818)
at java.base/java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:2006)
at com.sun.glass.utils.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraryInternal(NativeLibLoader.java:166)
at com.sun.glass.utils.NativeLibLoader.loadLibrary(NativeLibLoader.java:54)
at com.sun.glass.ui.gtk.GtkApplication.lambda$new$6(GtkApplication.java:195)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:318)
at com.sun.glass.ui.gtk.GtkApplication.(GtkApplication.java:179)
at com.sun.glass.ui.gtk.GtkPlatformFactory.createApplication(GtkPlatformFactory.java:41)
at com.sun.glass.ui.Application.run(Application.java:146)
at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumToolkit.startup(QuantumToolkit.java:290)
... 6 more

I will say that I'm running 8.3EA and this designer launcher in my Ubuntu WSL2 container, so that might be causing some issues, but I've installed and launched a 7.8 designer instance in the past like this without incident. I installed the libgtk-3-dev package, but no dice.

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I don't think we have any expectation that any of our GUI applications (the launchers, which are JavaFX or the designer/client, which are Swing) will work in the very weird, pseudo headless environment that is WSL2. You might be able to get something working, but you're blazing your own trail.

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Oy! Run away! Run away!

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Fair enough. Thank you both for your responses.

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Where's the WSL2 love. That's how I snuck Linux on the workstation into my Windows-centric former employer.

And find it handy here too.

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No sneaking for me. :smile:

All of my company computers run Linux on bare metal. Windows for specific tasks is only run in VMs.

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Nice.

My home infrastructure is Linux.

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