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[17:09] <Wafficus> Hi there, question about autostart programs
[17:09] <Wafficus> for the "Add" button
[17:09] <Wafficus> do I have to specify the path of the specific program?
[17:10] <Wafficus> I compiled a program called "Cool Retro Term", and I'd like it to startup whenever I startup the computer
[17:11] <wxl> as a general rule, i'd advise specifying the full path but if it's in your default $PATH you should be fine, wafficus
[17:12] <Wafficus> so its compiled in a separate folder on my desktop
[17:12] <Wafficus> do I have to move the entire folder into somewhere on my /etc directory?
[17:12] <Wafficus> like its in a folder called "Cool Retro Term"
[17:12] <Wafficus> the current directory aka pwd is:
[17:13] <Wafficus> /home/sbpc/Desktop/cool-retro-term-master/cool-retro-term
[17:14] <wxl> so it's probably not in your path then
[17:14] <wxl> unless you see /home/sbpc/Desktop in $PATH
[17:14] <Wafficus> where should I move it to then if I want it in my path?
[17:14] <wxl> is it a standalone file?
[17:14] <Wafficus> ah so move it in a folder called "$PATH"?
[17:14] <Wafficus> eh more like a directory
[17:14] <wxl> do you have a ~/bin?
[17:14] <Wafficus> but yeah it has an executable file
[17:14] <wxl> $PATH is a variable
[17:15] <Wafficus> gotcha
[17:15] <wxl> do `echo $PATH`
[17:15] <wxl> a ~/bin is a good thing to have if you do a lot of scripts (i do a done)
[17:15] <wxl> s/done/ton/
[17:15] <wxl> so just mkdir ~/bin
[17:15] <Wafficus> echo $PATH:
[17:16] <wxl> and then in .bashrc add something like `export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin`
[17:16] <Wafficus> aha
[17:16] <Wafficus> I found bin
[17:16] <Wafficus> so should I move a copy of that directory in it
[17:17] <Wafficus> like
[17:17] <wxl> and then create a softline to your cool-retro-term like so: `ln -s $HOME/Desktop/cool-retro-term-master/cool-retro-term $HOME/bin/cool-retro-term`
[17:17] <Wafficus> move the entireity of it
[17:17] <wxl> note by ~/bin i DO NOT mean /bin
[17:17] <Wafficus> ah
[17:17] <Wafficus> well
[17:17] <Wafficus> I cd'd outside of my default directory
[17:17] <Wafficus> aka "sbpc"
[17:17] <Wafficus> and then on that top directory
[17:17] <wxl> you can move it in /bin if you want
[17:17] <Wafficus> I found /bin
[17:17] <Wafficus> would that mean I could execute it by name if i did that
[17:17] <wxl> it's just you have to sudo your way to it whcih is one extra step you don't necessarily need
[17:17] <Wafficus> like "cool-retro-term"?
[17:18] <Wafficus> ah gotcha
[17:18] <Wafficus> hmm
[17:18] <Wafficus> dang
[17:18] <wxl> but if you did everything i mentioned above you could do the same thing without sudo
[17:18] <Wafficus> good point about sudo
[17:18] <Wafficus> ok lemme read what you said then one sec
[17:18] <Wafficus> appreciate it
[17:18] <wxl> np
[17:18] <wxl> to be clear we're creating a "bin" folder in your $HOME folder
[17:19] <wxl> and then we're adding that to your $PATH
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[17:19] <wxl> so that anything in that $HOME/bin folder can be executed directly without specifying the path
[17:19] <Wafficus> gotcha
[17:19] <Wafficus> but I have to ultimately pick
[17:19] <wxl> the final step is making a link from $HOME/bin to your folder
[17:19] <Wafficus> if I want bash to only point to that $HOME/bin folder right?
[17:19] <Wafficus> otherwise all other scripts will be screwed up right?
[17:19] <wxl> the value in that is that assuming that is under source control, you can continue to keep it updated without having to move things around all the time
[17:20] <Wafficus> link huh
[17:20] <Wafficus> maybe I'm too much of a newbie for now
[17:20] <Wafficus> here's an idea
[17:20] <wxl> the `export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin` basically says "add $HOME/bin to the end of the $PATH variable`
[17:20] <Wafficus> yeah
[17:20] <Wafficus> but then that's the default one from now one right?
[17:20] <wxl> so it's not going to screw anything up
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[17:22] <Wafficus> I tried cp cool-retro-term-master/ $HOME
[17:22] <Wafficus> apparently that didn't work
[17:22] <wxl> you can do that too, but the way PATH works, it's not recursively searched
[17:22] <Wafficus> I just wanted to make a copy so I don't screw up
[17:22] <Wafficus> it was super hard to build this terminal emulator tbh
[17:22] <wxl> so you'd need to copy ONLY the executable into $HOME/bin/
[17:22] <Wafficus> ah gotcha
[17:23] <wxl> if you had $HOME/bin/cool-retro-term-master/cool-retro-term you'd actually need to add $HOME/bin/cool-retro-term-master to your $PATH in order to run cool-retro-term without specifying the full path
[17:24] <wxl> actually that looks pretty easy to compile. you at least have all the build depends listed out for you :)
[17:24] <wxl> but if you're new to it compiling is just hard period
[17:25] <Wafficus> hey im back
[17:25] <Wafficus> so I created a bin directory under $HOME
[17:25] <Wafficus> placed cool-retro-term in there
[17:25] <Wafficus> so now I have to go to my bash rc file right?
[17:25] <wxl> edit $HOME/.bashrc
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[17:25] <wxl> btw what version of ubuntu are you on?
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[17:26] <wxl> *L*ubuntu sorry :)
[17:26] <Wafficus> hey back
[17:26] <wxl> btw what version of ubuntu are you on?
[17:26] <Wafficus> could you state what to do one more time
[17:27] <Wafficus> I wasnt in tmux again :/ so sorry
[17:27] <Wafficus> you said to edit the bash file right?
[17:27] <wxl> edit $HOME/.bashrc ...... but i just realized we might be able to do this a LOT easier. you know there's a PPA, right?
[17:27] <Wafficus> yeah I tried the ppa
[17:27] <Wafficus> it wasnt working tbh
[17:28] <wxl> what version you on?
[17:28] <wxl> (lubuntu)
[17:28] <Wafficus> idk tbh
[17:28] <Wafficus> probably most recent
[17:28] <wxl> `lsb_release -a`
[17:28] <Wafficus> 18.04.1 LTS
[17:29] <wxl> and how do you know the PPA didn't work?
[17:29] <Wafficus> I tried it a couple weeks ago tbh
[17:29] <wxl> i would really advise you use the PPA as it will keep itself updated and keep you from having to compile
[17:30] <wxl> `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vantuz/cool-retro-term && sudo apt update && sudo apt install cool-retro-term` and you should be done
[17:30] <wxl> by the way i'm starting to envision the silly scheme you have in mind trying to autostart this thing XD
[17:31] <Wafficus> I can that sudo command
[17:31] <Wafficus> ran
[17:31] <Wafficus> waiting on terminal
[17:31] <Wafficus> well
[17:31] <Wafficus> once it gets the ppa correctly like you said
[17:31] <Wafficus> this might be easier tbh
[17:31] <wxl> waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay easier
[17:32] <wxl> and all that path business is taken care of
[17:32] <Wafficus> true
[17:32] <Wafficus> I'm still pretty a beginner dev tbh
[17:32] <Wafficus> I've written some Python based webcraerpers
[17:32] <Wafficus> webscrapers
[17:32] <Wafficus> for my website, musimatic.net
[17:32] <Wafficus> its been fun though
[17:32] <wxl> neat
[17:33] <Wafficus> i'll be back in a sec
[17:33] <Wafficus> it didn't give me any errors
[17:33] <Wafficus> so i'll see if it worked
[17:33] <wxl> well if you want to contribute i'm sure we could find a place for you in lubuntu
[17:33] <Wafficus> ooh nice
[17:33] <wxl> we have a couple things we've built out of py
[17:33] <Wafficus> tbh
[17:33] <Wafficus> I've tried an open source project called Pybee so far
[17:33] <Wafficus> and I've ran a couple tests for them
[17:33] <Wafficus> but its been a day or two between responses on their Gitter
[17:33] <wxl> nice
[17:33] <Wafficus> after work that is you know
[17:33] <wxl> !info pybee
[17:34] <Wafficus> but yeah where could a beginner like me contribute to Lubuntu?
[17:34] <Wafficus> take a look at musimatic.net
[17:34] <Wafficus> see what I've done so far
[17:34] <Wafficus> and see if its worth while tbh
[17:34] <Wafficus> I appreciate the idea tbh
[17:34] <wxl> well, for one, join #lubuntu-devel and the mailing list is lubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
[17:34] <Wafficus> ok, I'll do both
[17:35] <Wafficus> one sec I'll be back wxl
[17:35] <wxl> we'll probably need to teach you packaging but that's relatively simple
[17:35] <wxl> i'm working on a better tutorial
[17:38] <Wafficus> hi back
[17:38] <Wafficus> so I tried that ppa on their site
[17:38] <Wafficus> and "cool-retro-term" doesn't work
[17:38] <Wafficus> I saw a couple 404 errors during the install
[17:38] <Wafficus> hence the install on my end tbh
 @Marcelo Pugliesi [Ok], Thank you any way. After reboot it works (i hope) properly.
[17:39] <Wafficus> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bugs-launchpad-net-falkensweb/cool-retro-term
[17:39] <Wafficus> sudo apt-get update
[17:39] <Wafficus> ^ that's what I did
[17:40] <wxl> not sure where you got that from
[17:41] <wxl> `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vantuz/cool-retro-term && sudo apt update && sudo apt install cool-retro-term` and you should be done
[17:41] <wxl> NOT bugs-launchpad-net-falkensweb but vantuz
[17:41] <wxl> https://launchpad.net/~vantuz/+archive/ubuntu/cool-retro-term
[17:42] <wxl> admittedly there is another ppa
[17:42] <wxl> https://launchpad.net/~bugs-launchpad-net-falkensweb/+archive/ubuntu/cool-retro-term
[17:42] <wxl> but they don't publish anything for bionic
[17:43] <wxl> general advise: don't use ppa's unless they're recommended by the upstream developer
[17:45] <wxl> curiously that second ppa you mentioned is owned by tom chiverton who also added the link to the OTHER ppa (not his) upstream https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/commit/7325835c3f6946c2bd701514052b237c6817ff71
[17:47] <wxl> ah here's the distinction: vantuz is for new releases and tom's is for old ones https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/issues/442#issuecomment-383235604
[18:18] <Wafficus> hey im back
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