Linux Auto Setup

[hammy275]

Linux Auto Setup

[hammy275]

Auto setup has been added for Ubuntu--based systems (Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.).

[hammy275]

What I just added should fix things for Debian-based systems! I'm going to see if I can find some way to detect if we're running Crostini, because Crostini doesn't play nice with running PySimpleGUI as root and we need to alert the user through GUI whether or not to install adb, scrcpy, etc.

[hammy275]

By check for the presence of the CrosAdapta theme, I was able to detect Crostini. Without running a certain command, Crostini can't run GUI apps as root, so if we fail to connect to a display and we're running under Crostini, we can throw an error accordingly to run the hack (since calling it from our Python script fails).

[hammy275]

At the moment, Debian-based systems can install adb and scrcpy through apt and snap respectively. Problematically, many systems don't have snap. The current implementation is to install snap, however, there should be an optional method to install adb and scrcpy through direct downloading. This would also allow support to vastly expand to pretty much any Linux distro!

NOTE: Installations through things such as apt, snap, etc. will be used if the package manager is already installed on the system since they can keep scrcpy and adb up to date.

[hammy275]

It looks to be direct downloading would require compiling scrcpy, which would just move back the problem to downloading the tools for compilation. Maybe at some point, I'll let scrcpy-gui compile scrcpy, but for now, I'm going to leave it as is. This commit adds (UNTESTED!) support for installing adb and scrcpy through pacman and yum, so hopefully that should cover enough operating systems that most of them will support automatic setup out of the box. I'm going to close this issue now, it's been long-standing, and functionality was (hopefully added correctly) in the previously mentioned commit.