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6 Replies Last post: Mar 25, 2008 4:46 PM by ram

Looking for Curl IDE for Ubuntu and/or Debian

Mar 21, 2008 4:48 PM

Click to view ram's profile Level 1 ram 4 posts since
Mar 21, 2008

The only Linux Curl IDE download I see is a .rpm file.

Could you guys release a .deb or tar.gz version of the IDE? I'm doing this from a Dell that had Ubuntu pre-installed and would hate to have to run red-hat in vmware just to run the curl IDE.

If not - could you guys release a .deb or tar.gz version of the Runtime, and help people integrate it with eclipse?


Overall, how well supported are your Linux offerings and roadmap? I'm interested in something richer than AJAX, more flexible to develop with than Flash, and more cross-platform than Silverlight; so it seems Curl would be a good fit.

Tags: linux, debian, ubuntu
Click to view RMH's profile Curl RMH 45 posts since
Feb 17, 2008
1. Re: Looking for Curl IDE for Ubuntu and/or Debian Mar 21, 2008 7:13 PM

Hi Ram,

I'll make a priority to check into this on Monday and hopefully we'll have it resolved before too long - I think all the engineers are off for the weekend. I'm not sure if the engineers will be able to create an Ubuntu and/or Debian distribution but assuming its just a matter of packaging it shouldn't be a big problem. Than again, I don't know if we would offer support for all Linux platforms - let me get back to you on this.

All the best,

Richard

Click to view Duke's profile Curl Duke 155 posts since
Oct 17, 2007
2. Re: Looking for Curl IDE for Ubuntu and/or Debian Mar 21, 2008 7:54 PM
We did have one report of the following way to install on ubuntu :
"on Ubuntu 6.10 use "alien --scripts" to convert the rpm then "dpkg -i" to install. It worked just fine."
but I haven't personally verified if that still works with our latest 6.0 release. I think it probably would still be true though.

Curl has been running on Linux for a long time and I expect it would work well for your purposes.

The IDE is written in Curl itself, so if you get it installed you can see how well it runs and look through all the live examples in the on-line documentation that comes with the IDE.
Click to view ram's profile Level 1 ram 4 posts since
Mar 21, 2008
3. Re: Looking for Curl IDE for Ubuntu and/or Debian Mar 22, 2008 4:49 PM
in response to: Duke

Great!

I'll try this monday and if it works mark the question as answered; though with Ubuntu as popular as it is, IMHO a .deb would be nice anyway.

Click to view RMH's profile Curl RMH 45 posts since
Feb 17, 2008
4. Re: Looking for Curl IDE for Ubuntu and/or Debian Mar 23, 2008 6:53 AM
in response to: ram

Duke,

Thanks for providing a solution - I hope it works for you Ram. However, this fix doesn't seem like a good longterm solution. I agree with you Ram, we need to provide distributions for other linux flavors. As I said I'll bring this up Monday to the engineers and see what we can do.

Click to view RMH's profile Curl RMH 45 posts since
Feb 17, 2008
5. Re: Looking for Curl IDE for Ubuntu and/or Debian Mar 25, 2008 2:28 PM
I just got the following message from David Kranz (one of the original creators of Curl)!

"The current status is that we should be able to have an Ubuntu installer for 6.0.2 to put on our website some time next week. -David"

Boy if that doesn't show responsiveness to the community I don't know what does. Thanks to everyone at Curl who made this possible!

Richard
Click to view ram's profile Level 1 ram 4 posts since
Mar 21, 2008
6. Re: Looking for Curl IDE for Ubuntu and/or Debian Mar 25, 2008 4:46 PM
in response to: RMH

Nice!

For what it's worth, Duke's "alien --scripts" solution worked fine; and I've gotten simple applets up and running already.

Now if only browsers supported Curl natively without jumping through hoops to install, I wouldn't have to write HTML anymore. :D

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