Hyper: Simple install for Linux? (Download link for Linux not working)

Created on 6 Oct 2016 · 11Comments · Source: vercel/hyper

Hello, I clicked on the Linux download and it says 'version not found 'latest'.

Why isn't there something like brew install to install this on linux? Would be some nice if there was an apt-get install hyper for Ubuntu or an npm i -g hyper.app or maybe this appimage thing could be useful (I could not find an appimage).

I mean I don't really mind cloning the repo and installing everything manually but it should be easy to install. Unless you don't like people who use Linux in which case you should continue making it hard :P Just kidding.

BTW this such a cool project.

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You can always use this -> https://github.com/zeit/hyper/releases, but I agree, apt-get would be awesome

pveyes on 7 Oct 2016

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You can always use this -> https://github.com/zeit/hyper/releases, but I agree, apt-get would be awesome

pveyes on 7 Oct 2016

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The doc is not clear, it took me a while to realize it is possible to install it on Fedora. There are some other - closed - issues that mention that but it should really be on the main download page.

On Fedora there was a missing depencency,

/tmp/.mount_aytrIO/usr/bin/hyper: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

which got resolved by installing libXScrnSaver.

download the AppImage file from the link above
dnf install libXscrnSaver
chmod +x the AppImage file and run it

I am glad I can run it on my Fedora, it is really great

saule1508 on 8 Oct 2016

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In this case it looks like the AppImage is missing libraries that should be bundled inside @saule1508. That is a bug of the Hyper AppImage.

An AppImage should contain all libraries except the blacklisted ones which are expected to be part of every target system.

probonopd on 8 Oct 2016

I've installed 0.8.0 deb package from releases page and found some packaging issues:

It writes "HyperTerm is now Hyper.app. Please re-download" though it's the latest deb package.
It's being installed to /opt and does not include any symlinks in /usr/bin or similar dir, so it needs to add a new PATH to .bashrc.
It does not include system menu icon, so it's able to run only either from other terminal or from custom launch icon.

programmador on 10 Oct 2016

I found a reasonable looking askubuntu on how to create a ppa -- would it be okay if I took a crack at setting one up?

doug-wade on 10 Oct 2016

FYI, I've seen people host PPA's using github pages.

http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/host-a-repository-of-deb-packages-with-dropbox

fearphage on 10 Oct 2016

We could also set this up like Yarn is doing:
https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install#linux

flybayer on 11 Oct 2016

Mind changing the installation instructions if this can't be resolved on short notice? The Linux download link seems to have been broken for days and expecting Linux users to search the issues to figure out they have to use the GitHub releases isn't exactly great.