Kitematic: Managed to run on Fedora 25

[FrenchBen]

Thanks for the help in getting this to work on Fedora - Would be glad to see a proper list of what needs to be modified, in order to support more linux distributions.

[ozc]

I've tried to retrace my steps and make it as easy as possible. But it needs to be checked. At least, the regex codes and the typo errors. Kitematic and electron version numbers need to be changed if necessary, too.

sudo dnf -y update

--Download kitematic tar.gz file
tar zxvf kitematic-0.13.1.tar.gz
cd kitematic-0.13.1

sed -ie 's/.*\("electron-version"\)\(.*\)\(".*"\).*$/\1: "1.6.0",/g' package.json
sed -ie 's/.*\("electron-prebuilt"\)\(.*\)\(".*"\).*$/"electron": "\^1.6.0",/g' package.json

sed -ie 's/.*\(var electron\)\(.*\);$/\1 = require(\x27electron\x27);/g' Gruntfile.js 


grep -Ril "import shell from 'shell'" ./src | xargs sed -ie 's/.*\(import shell from \x27shell\x27\)/import {shell} from \x27electron\x27;/g'

sudo dnf -y install libXScrnSaver
sudo dnf -y install libcanberra-gtk3 libcanberra libcanberra-devel
make
grunt

--At this point Kitematic is compiled and running

--If you want to create a rpm
sudo dnf -y install rpm-build
grunt release

cd dist
sudo rpm -Uvh Kitematic_0.13.1_x86_64.rpm

-- If shows dependency errors:
sudo dnf -y install lsb

NOTE:
to fix console log on top of menu, before running make and grunt, edit styles/container-home.less file. You need to add margin-top:50px; so it will be like this:

.details-panel.home {
  background-color: @color-background;
  overflow: hidden;
  margin-top:50px;
  .content {

[MrSimonEmms]

Does anyone know of a reason why this couldn't be incorporated into the main project so we get an .rpm release as well as a .deb?

[MrSimonEmms]

Edit: you will also need sudo dnf -y install rpm-build

A solution to this is actually much simpler than first I thought. Download the zip/tar.gz of the release you want, extract it and run the following commands.

cd /path/to/kitematic
npm install
grunt release

This will create an RPM that you can install as you would normally.

You will need Grunt installed for this. I've done this using Grunt 0.4.5 and Grunt CLI 1.2.0.

[FrenchBen]

@riggerthegeek that's correct - All of the builds are done on an OSX machine, which doesn't seem to have the proper electron-rpm packages needed for the RPM build.

Closing since you were able to build the RPM. Help to get it working on OSX would be great.