2.5 Installing Rattle on Linux for Local User

To install for use just by you the package can be placed into ~/.local/share. After downloading the zip file unzip it into that location:

wget https://access.togaware.com/rattle-dev-linux.zip -O rattle-dev-linux.zip
unzip rattle-dev-linux.zip -d ${HOME}/.local/share/rattle

These two steps, wget and unzip, can also be repeated to update your installation.

Now set up a link to the binary to be able to run the rattle command from a terminal:

mkdir -p ${HOME}/.local/bin/
ln -s ${HOME}/.local/share/rattle/rattle ${HOME}/.local/bin/

Then set up your local installation (only required once) to make it known to GNOME and KDE, with a desktop icon for your desktop:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gjwgit/rattleng/dev/installers/rattle.desktop -O ${HOME}/.local/share/applications/rattle.desktop
sed -i "s/USER/$(whoami)/g" ${HOME}/.local/share/applications/rattle.desktop
mkdir -p ${HOME}/.local/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/
wget https://github.com/gjwgit/rattleng/raw/dev/installers/rattle.png -O ${HOME}/.local/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/rattle.png

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