Alpha on Ubuntu

[scottmb]

I’m trying something new (for me) and attempting to get the Alpha network running on an Ubuntu 16.04 machine.

I found these instructions and followed them without any errors:

• wget -O - http://apt.maidsafe.net/repos/maidsafe.apt.gpg.key|sudo apt-key add -
• sudo wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/maidsafe.list http://apt.maidsafe.net/repos/maidsafe.list
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install safe-launcher

but . … . how do I actually launch the Launcher? Or, am I missing something?

[dirvine]

Ah on ubuntu the app name is safe_launcher (underscore)

[scottmb]

@dirvine

safe_launcher

That did it - Thanks!

Now for the Demo App - IS that launched from within the Launcher, or seperately from the command line?.

[dirvine]

That is separate as well also uses underscores in local app name.

[scottmb]

That’s it - all working! Thank you for the help, I appreciate it . . . . now I have to figure out what I’m going to do with this now!

[McAddison]

Yes, that’s not very user friendly. The necessary file for not needing the cli is in the source code. Related issue: There is no menu entry installed on Ubuntu · Issue #263 · maidsafe-archive/safe_launcher · GitHub