If that fails, then try these commands (with Root privileges).Īpt-get install -install-recommends pipelight-multi To install Pipelight, run the following commands with Root privileges. Pipelight works in Firefox, Midori, Chromium, and Google Chrome. Pipelight ( ) is an open-source alternative to Silverlight. However, Pipelight is an alternative to Silverlight and Moonlight for Linux. Moonlight's development has been discontinued. Moonlight used Cairo for graphical rendering and it came with various codecs. Moonlight was developed by Novell as part of the Mono Project. Moonlight ( ) is an open-source alternative to Silverlight and it works on Linux systems. However, how can Linux users enjoy web services and content that require Silverlight? Moonlight Silverlight is a web-browser plugin used on Windows systems. Netflix video streaming is an example of a service that uses Silverlight. With Rails and Ruby installed (see link at the top of this page) and RubyMine extracted, and Sun Java JDK installed, you are ready to ride on the Rails train.Silverlight is a framework used to run rich Internet applications. It’s just that RubyMine will give you an error if you try to run it without having the Sun Java JDK installed.
Note: This step can be done before or after you extract RubyMine from the. I followed this guide (from a Question/Answer on StackOverflow) to install the Sun Java JDK 1.7.0 in my new Ubuntu machine:
Unfortunately, the Ubuntu Software Center does not have a click-easy installer for this, so you’ve got to do it in a terminal window, but trust me, it’s not hard. RubyMine requires the Sun Java JDK environment to make its fancy GUI stuff work (note: RubyMine does not work well with OpenJDK, so don’t use this one by mistake!). After that, it’s ready to run RubyMine (well, after you follow the next step…) Sun Java JDK From there you can extract it to a folder of your choice.
(Note to Windows users… All this talk about “tar” and “archive” is basically what us Windows folks call a “zip” file.) After you download the archive from the JetBrains site, right click on it and open it with the Archive Manager.
It will tell you where to unzip the files, and how to launch RubyMine after you’ve extracted it from the archive. You can read the RubyMine Installation Instructions in the file named “Install-Linux-tar.txt” file which is located in the archive file for RubyMine that you will download from JetBrains. So I just create and “apps” folder in my Home folder, and drop all my non-Ubuntu-Software-Center packages in separate folders there. If you try to place it in one of the more locked-down system folder, you could run into permissions problems, which always drives me nuts. (I put mine in /home/matt/apps/RunyMine-4.0.3/).
You just extract it to a folder of your choice. There is no actual “installer” for RubyMine on Linux.
(By the way, see this post where I explain how to setup the Rails goodness on a new Ubuntu 12.04 machine: ) Installing RubyMine After installing the basic RVM, Rails, and Ruby stuff, I was then ready to install RubyMine. I recently set up a new Ubuntu 12.04 machine in a VirtualBox VM.