Sdk: Dart installation on Linux is cumbersome, and doesn't work on some mainstream distros

[DartBot]

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Hi all. It seems that the Dart installation for Linux isn't really hammered out all that well. In my case, I'm trying to install on RHEL 6.4, with all the latest updates for that distro. Right now, it seems to be complaining about the GLIBC version needs to be either 2.14 or 2.15 - or both. Currently RHEL 6.4 uses 2.12.

Is there a reason that dart doesn't have a Fedora/Redhat rpm, or a deb for Ubuntu? It seems like this would be a much easier solution than having to maintain the "Preparing" instruction set and the "install-build-deps.sh" script.

As it stands, I do all my dart development in Windows, and my server-side stuff in Redhat. When I go to prepare my GUI deployment package, I have to do have to do the "pub deploy" in Windows, and do the rpm packaging on Redhat. It seems like I should be able to at least do the "pub deploy" stuff in Redhat as well....

Thanks,

-D

[iposva-google]

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[mkustermann]

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[sethladd]

I wonder if the best thing to do is to produce RPM and .deb packages that work for Centos 6.4 and Ubuntu 10.04. The server moves slower than the client, and lots of users have servers running older (long-term supported) distros. They run integration tests there or deploy Dart to those servers.

Alternatively, we can document how to build Dart on these older systems.

[sethladd]

I wrote up my steps for compiling on Ubuntu 10.04 here: https://code.google.com/p/dart/wiki/BuildDartSDKOnUbuntu10_04

Hope that helps kick start support for more server distros.

[anders-sandholm]

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[DartBot]

_This comment was originally written by @austincummings_

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Just wondering what the status of providing rpm's for older server distro's is. I am currently in need of a version of Dart that can run on RHEL 6.5.

[DartBot]

_This comment was originally written by @Emasoft_

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Related to issue #19301
https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=19301

[ricowind]

We have dep packages and apt-get repo, the dart theam will not be supplying support for other distributions.

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