Installing system-wide

[Calinou]

How can one install Suplemon system-wide, to invoke it with just suplemon? Is there any pip package or such?

[miohtama]

For personal use running sudo python setup.py install is enough when Suplemon packages itself to Python properly: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/distributing.html

For distributed system-wide installations the recommended path would be to wrap Suplemon to a native distribution package first:

E.g. Debian / Ubuntu https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stdeb https://wiki.debian.org/Python/Packaging

[richrd]

Thanks for asking!

Unfortunately I haven't got round to packaging Suplemon to pip yet. I've been busy getting some essential features implemented, and fixing some bugs. Now that you asked, I'll make packaging a priority.

For now as a quick workaround you could place the following file named suplemon in /usr/local/bin/ and make it executable.

#!/bin/sh
python3 /path/to/suplemon/suplemon/cli.py $@

[Calinou]

For now as a quick workaround you could place the following file named suplemon in /usr/bin/ and make it executable.

Wouldn't /usr/local/bin be a better place for this? Generally, custom software should go there.

[richrd]

Yes, you're right, thanks for the correction! :)

[richrd]

This is now finally fixed in the master branch! It took me longer than I thought, because it involved some majour refactoring etc. Hope you enjoy :) 🍻