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Remove linux install and uninstall scripts. Add INSTALL.txt instructions
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KjellMorgenstern committed Dec 10, 2019
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# Installing Fritzing

Please make sure your system satisfies one of these requirements:
Windows 10
Windows 7 was reported to work, too
Mac - OSX 10.14 and up, though 10.13 might work too. MacOS 10.15 is currently untested.
Linux - a fairly recent linux distro with libc >= 2.6

Start downloading the Fritzing package that's right for you.
Unzip your Fritzing folder somewhere convenient on your hard drive.
This may also be a good time for you to create a shortcut to the Fritzing application.
A free unzipping program can be found here, should you need it.

## Notes on Windows

Unzipping Fritzing might be very slower than the download itself. We recommend
using 7zip

To start Fritzing on Windows: double-click fritzing.exe

## Notes on Linux
To start Fritzing double-click Fritzing, or try ./Fritzing in your shell window

Fritzing uses the Qt5 libraries. On Ubuntu, they can be installed like this:

"sudo apt install libqt5xml5 libqt5sql5 libqt5serialport5"


## Notes on macOS
To start Fritzing on macOS double-click the Fritzing application

Recent versions of macOS do not allow "unverified" software to be launched directly. In order to run Fritzing, you will need to either:

1a. right-click the Fritzing icon and select "Open"
2a. in the warning dialog, click "Open"
or, to get rid of the warning permanently:
1b. go to the System Preferences
2b. open the Security & Privacy page
3b. unlock it by clicking the lock in the lower left corner
4b. set it to allow app downloads from anywhere
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion tools/deploy_fritzing_mac.sh
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echo ">> copy support files"
cd "$workingdir"
cp -rf sketches help translations README.md LICENSE.CC-BY-SA LICENSE.GPL2 LICENSE.GPL3 "$supportdir/"
cp -rf sketches help translations INSTALL.txt README.md LICENSE.CC-BY-SA LICENSE.GPL2 LICENSE.GPL3 "$supportdir/"

echo ">> clean translations"
cd "$supportdir"
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mkdir -p "${release_folder}"

echo "copying release files"
cp -rf sketches/ help/ translations/ Fritzing.sh Fritzing.1 org.fritzing.Fritzing.desktop fritzing.rc org.fritzing.Fritzing.appdata.xml install_fritzing.sh README.md LICENSE.CC-BY-SA LICENSE.GPL2 LICENSE.GPL3 "$release_folder/"
cp -rf sketches/ help/ translations/ Fritzing.sh Fritzing.1 org.fritzing.Fritzing.desktop fritzing.rc org.fritzing.Fritzing.appdata.xml INSTALL.txt README.md LICENSE.CC-BY-SA LICENSE.GPL2 LICENSE.GPL3 "$release_folder/"
mkdir -p "${release_folder}/icons"
cp resources/system_icons/linux/* "$release_folder/icons/"
mv Fritzing "${release_folder}/"
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xcopy /q .\help %DESTDIR%\deploy\help /E /I

copy .\README.md %DESTDIR%\deploy\README.md
copy .\INSTALL.txt %DESTDIR%\deploy\INSTALL.txt
copy .\LICENSE.GPL2 %DESTDIR%\deploy\LICENSE.GPL2
copy .\LICENSE.GPL3 %DESTDIR%\deploy\LICENSE.GPL3
copy .\LICENSE.CC-BY-SA %DESTDIR%\deploy\LICENSE.CC-BY-SA
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Why was the file install_fritzing.sh deleted? This script still works fine for me and installing the application is much more convenient than having it lying around somewhere.

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It didn't work for many users, caused confusion and angry emails to our support. But if you worry about the script, 0.9.6 has a new script, that seems to work better (but of course, it is not really battle proven outside from Ubuntu 20.04 yet)

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Cool, that also works on my machine. I would like to give it a try under other Linux distributions, too. I noticed that I cannot find it in this repository. Is this new installation script not public?

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