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App not appearing in installed applications after .deb installation

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What version of electron-installer-debian are you using? 0.3.0

What version of node and npm are you using? Node - v6.1.0 npm - 3.8.6

What operating system are you using? Ubuntu 16.04 (VirtualBox VM)

Can you compile the example app successfully? Yes

If not, paste here the output of the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/unindented/electron-installer-debian.git
$ cd electron-installer-debian/example
$ DEBUG='electron-installer-debian' npm run build

What did you do? Please include the configuration you are using for electron-installer-debian. Followed readme, npm install && npm run build

What did you expect to happen? App to appear in installed applications in Ubuntu

What actually happened? .deb was built with no errors and app was installed without issues, but can’t find the app in the installed applications menu

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 7 years ago
  • Comments:14

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unindentedcommented, Jul 3, 2016

@randoms instead of changing the source of the extension, what you should be doing is passing the bin option set to whatever you want:

{
  "bin": "app"
}
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kniazkovqareacommented, Jul 1, 2016

I have the same issue. @jaypanares did you solve the problem?

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