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Adding a symbolic link for OpenSCAD #2441

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Joe-Lay opened this issue Sep 7, 2023 · 1 comment
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Adding a symbolic link for OpenSCAD #2441

Joe-Lay opened this issue Sep 7, 2023 · 1 comment
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Joe-Lay commented Sep 7, 2023

Cool ideas?

I was wondering if it might be a good idea to add a line of code in the OpenSCAD install files that creates a symbolic link in /bin to the OpenSCAD appimage so that one may have a OpenSCAD executable. I find it much easier to type "openscad" than "/opt/OpenSCAD.AppImage" to launch the application. (And we all know speed is key ;) It also helps when using FreeCAD because freecad just looks inside /bin for the command, as far as I am aware of. At the very least, it doesn't detect the Pi-Apps install of OpenSCAD. But it does detect it when I run the command,
sudo ln -s /opt/OpenSCAD.AppImage openscad
And there lies the jist of my post. I think it could be useful if we added that one line of code to the install files.

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@Botspot Botspot closed this as completed in 4eac066 Sep 7, 2023
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Botspot commented Sep 7, 2023

Thank you for the suggestion! Please feel free to suggest other small changes like this.

I've implemented your suggestion now with commit 4eac066. After you update Pi-Apps, a /usr/local/bin/openscad command will be created.

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