[Bf-webcontent] Runs out of box?

[Piotr Arlukowicz]

I understand your point. The missing part is just on the user side, namely
a simple chmod on blender executable, which isn't performed by a casual
user right after unpacking.
tar is able to set this, but only for superuser by default. The regular
user has to add -p option, which isn't the case also.

The possible solution is to create something similar to *.run file (as is
done, for example by NVIDIA drivers for linux). Such a file is just a bash
script with all binary data attached to its end, and all what is required
to do, is to run that script. This can be done by casual user with a mouse.
The script can simply unpack the blender archive to some default directory
and set the executable permission for blender.

What do you think?

pz
piotr
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2013/11/12 Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford at gmail.com>

> Check this
>
> http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-blender-2-68-on-ubuntu-linux-mint-debian-fedora-opensuse-mageia/
>
> And this
> http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-blender-2-67b-on-ubuntu-linux-mint-debian/
>
> Blender doesn't run out of the box really out of the box always.
>
> My point is, after extracting the archive containing blender, it doesn't
> always run straight out of the box, at least, a last step to make it really
> run is necessary.
>
> It may be a permission requirement on the part of the user and not
> blenders fault, but a new user who reads blender works "out of the box" and
> can't get the "blender" file to run after extracting won't suspect his end
> to be the issue.
>
> plus.google.com/+Nkansahrexford
> On Nov 12, 2013 8:16 PM, "Gottfried Hofmann" <gottfried at blenderdiplom.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 11/12/2013 05:00 PM, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
>> > On the download page, about how to install blender, I read this:
>> > "Blender will run straight out of the box"
>> >
>> > However, I find typing chmod +x blender in terminal before I'm able to
>> > run the executable for the first time in Ubuntu.
>>
>> It ran out of the box on all my Ubuntu PCs. Always.
>>
>> > I'm currently on Ubuntu 13.10 and didn't have to do that though. But for
>> > others on 13.04 or below, if clicking the exe doesn't work they might
>> > consider it as a bug.
>>
>> There is no .EXE for Linux. Did you download windows version and run it
>> through wine by accident?
>>
>> > Blender doesn't run straight out of the box, always.
>>
>> It should, it's mostly statically linked.
>>
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