App not appearing in installed applications after .deb installation

[jaypanares]

What version of electron-installer-debian are you using?
0.3.0

What version of node and npm are you using?
Node - v6.1.0
npm - 3.8.6

What operating system are you using?
Ubuntu 16.04 (VirtualBox VM)

Can you compile the example app successfully?
Yes

If not, paste here the output of the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/unindented/electron-installer-debian.git
$ cd electron-installer-debian/example
$ DEBUG='electron-installer-debian' npm run build

What did you do? Please include the configuration you are using for electron-installer-debian.
Followed readme, npm install && npm run build

What did you expect to happen?
App to appear in installed applications in Ubuntu

What actually happened?
.deb was built with no errors and app was installed without issues, but can't find the app in the installed applications menu

[unindented]

Thanks for reporting @jaypanares.

Are you sure the app installed without issues? Maybe Ubuntu errored silently...

Try executing the following from a command line:

sudo dpkg -i yourdebfile.deb

Did it complain about missing dependencies, like libappindicator1?

I tend to use gdebi to install .deb files, as it resolves dependencies automatically:

sudo apt-get install gdebi
sudo gdebi yourdebfile.deb

[jaypanares]

I got your example working using gdebi :) Now, my issue is that the app I'm working on is not appearing in installed applications. Are you doing anything special to add the icon in the installed apps? I tried copying the config.json from your example and building the installer the same way as your npm run build but my app is not appearing in installed applications. No errors are displayed. Do I just depend on some packages and it should work?

[unindented]

The only thing the example app does is point to a PNG image to be used as icon: https://github.com/unindented/electron-installer-debian/blob/master/example/config.json#L3

Can you paste the contents of /usr/share/applications/yourapp.desktop? That's what Ubuntu uses to display your app in the launcher AFAIK.

[jaypanares]

Hmm.. The app appears in /usr/share/applications but when I run it There was an error running the application. The built files from electron-packager work fine when I run them, but when I use electron-installer-debian I can't get the app to run. Maybe that is what's wrong?

[jaypanares]

I tried creating an installer with Electron's quick start app:
git clone https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start

I am also unable to run the app when I open it in /usr/share/applications

[unindented]

So only my example app works? That's weird... What differences have you noticed between your app and the example?

[jaypanares]

The only difference I noticed was that you app's structure is different from my app, but I think that that shouldn't be the case because there isn't any installer specific code in your app.

[randoms]

I experienced the same problem. Here is my desktop file

[Desktop Entry]
Name=path-drawer
Comment=A program to process ORB_SLAM2 map points and path
GenericName=path-drawer
Exec=path-drawer %U
Icon=path-drawer
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;

I think the Exec path is wrong. The right one is /usr/share/path-drawer/app.

[randoms]

I found that a symbol link was created at /usr/bin, but the link location was wrong.
current link address

../share/path-drawer/path-drawer

the right address should be

../share/path-drawer/app

[kniazkovqarea]

I have the same issue.
@jaypanares did you solve the problem?

[randoms]

change src/installer.js L237

from

var binSrc = path.join('../share', options.name, options.bin)

to

var binSrc = path.join('../share', options.name, "app")

[unindented]

@randoms instead of changing the source of the extension, what you should be doing is passing the bin option set to whatever you want:

{
  "bin": "app"
}

[jaylenw]

Unfortunately, the bin parameter method does not work for me when i added the correct string location for the application to execute. :(. The desktop file still points to the wrong path.

[DarthVader1108]

Thanks for reporting @jaypanares.

Are you sure the app installed without issues? Maybe Ubuntu errored silently...

Try executing the following from a command line:

sudo dpkg -i yourdebfile.deb

Did it complain about missing dependencies, like libappindicator1?

I tend to use gdebi to install .deb files, as it resolves dependencies automatically:

sudo apt-get install gdebi
sudo gdebi yourdebfile.deb

I tried that, but it keeps saying "file not found" even though I typed the right characters, the exact characters.