{"id":5496,"date":"2015-12-12T14:55:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T14:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2015-12-12T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T14:58:15","slug":"install-light-table-0-8-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/12\/install-light-table-0-8-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Light Table 0.8 in Ubuntu 14.04, 15.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LightTable-IDE-logo-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LightTable-IDE-logo-icon.png\" alt=\"LightTable IDE\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LightTable-IDE-logo-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LightTable-IDE-logo-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Light Table IDE has just reached a new stable release after more than one year of development. Now it provides 64-bit only binary for Linux.  <\/p>\n<p>Changes in LightTable 0.8.0:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CHANGED: We have switched to Electron from NW.js<\/li>\n<li>CHANGED: LT&#8217;s releases and self-updating processes are completely in the open on Github<\/li>\n<li>ADDED: LT can be built from source with provided scripts across supported platforms<\/li>\n<li>ADDED: Most of LT&#8217;s node libraries are installed as npm dependencies instead of as forked libraries<\/li>\n<li>ADDED: Significant documentation. See more below<\/li>\n<li>FIX: Major usability issues on >= OSX 10.10<\/li>\n<li>CHANGED: 32-bit linux is no longer an official download. Building from source will still be supported<\/li>\n<li>FIX: ClojureScript eval for modern versions of ClojureScript<\/li>\n<li>More details at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/LightTable\/LightTable\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">github.com\/LightTable\/LightTable\/releases<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-08.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-08-450x275.jpg\" alt=\"LightTable 0.8.0\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-08-450x275.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-08-600x367.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-08.jpg 1159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>How to Install Light Table 0.8.0 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Below steps show you how to install the official binary in Ubuntu. Works on all current Ubuntu releases (<b>64-bit only<\/b>).<\/p>\n<p><i>Before getting started, please make a backup if you have a previous release installed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Download the Linux binary from link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/LightTable\/LightTable\/releases\/download\/0.8.0\/lighttable-0.8.0-linux.tar.gz\">lighttable-0.8.0-linux.tar.gz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Open terminal from Unity Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T keys. When it opens, paste below command and hit enter:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">gksudo file-roller ~\/Downloads\/lighttable-0.8.0-linux.tar.gz<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/open-via-fileroller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/open-via-fileroller-450x47.jpg\" alt=\"open-via-fileroller\" width=\"450\" height=\"47\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/open-via-fileroller-450x47.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/open-via-fileroller-600x62.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/open-via-fileroller.jpg 753w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Install <code>gksu<\/code> from Ubuntu Software Center if the command does not work.<\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Previous command opens the downloaded archive via Archive Manager using root user privilege.<\/p>\n<p>When it opens, do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>right-click and rename the folder name to <b>LightTable<\/b><\/li>\n<li>extract it to <b>Computer -> \/opt\/<\/b> directory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/extract-lighttable.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/extract-lighttable-600x287.jpg\" alt=\"extract-lighttable\" width=\"600\" height=\"287\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/extract-lighttable-600x287.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/extract-lighttable-450x215.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/extract-lighttable.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally you should have the LightTable installed to \/opt\/ directory:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-in-opt.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-in-opt-450x160.jpg\" alt=\"lighttable-in-opt\" width=\"450\" height=\"160\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-in-opt-450x160.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-in-opt-600x214.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-in-opt.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>4.<\/b> Create a launcher so you can start LightTable from Unity Dash or App Launcher.<\/p>\n<p>Open terminal and run below command to create &#038; edit a launcher file for LightTable:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">gksudo gedit \/usr\/share\/applications\/lighttable.desktop<\/pre>\n<p>When the file opens via Gedit text editor, paste below and save the file:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"background:none;\">[Desktop Entry]\nVersion=1.0\nType=Application\nName=Light Table\nGenericName=Text Editor\nComment=Open source IDE that modify, from running programs to embed websites and games\nExec=\/opt\/LightTable\/LightTable %F\nTerminal=false\nMimeType=text\/plain;\nIcon=\/opt\/LightTable\/resources\/app\/core\/img\/lticon.png\nCategories=TextEditor;Development;Utility;\nStartupNotify=true\nActions=Window;Document;\n\nName[en_US]=Light Table\n\n[Desktop Action Window]\nName=New Window\nExec=\/opt\/LightTable\/LightTable -n\nOnlyShowIn=Unity;\n\n[Desktop Action Document]\nName=New File\nExec=\/opt\/LightTable\/LightTable --command new_file\nOnlyShowIn=Unity;<\/pre>\n<p>So it looks like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-launcher.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-launcher-450x247.jpg\" alt=\"lighttable-launcher\" width=\"450\" height=\"247\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-launcher-450x247.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-launcher-600x329.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/lighttable-launcher.jpg 925w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally launch the IDE from Unity Dash or Application Launcher and enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Light Table IDE has just reached a new stable release after more than one year of development. Now it provides 64-bit only binary for Linux. Changes in LightTable 0.8.0: CHANGED: We have switched to Electron from NW.js CHANGED: LT&#8217;s releases and self-updating processes are completely in the open on Github ADDED: LT can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[981,566],"class_list":["post-5496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-ide","tag-light-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}