Add Thonny IDE to Endless OS

[fenris]

1. Download Thony from Thonny Website (https://thonny.org) manually or

Binary bundle for PC (Thonny+Python):

$ cd ~/Documents
$ bash <(wget -O - https://thonny.org/installer-for-linux)

2. Extract the thonny-3.2.1-x86_64.tar.gz

3. change directory into thonny folder

$ cd thonny

4. run the install file

$ ./install
Copying files to /sysroot/home/khairul/apps/thonny …
/sysroot/home/khairul/apps/thonny already exists. I need to clear it. Is it OK? [Y/n]: Y
Done!
Creating start menu item (/usr/share/applications/Thonny.desktop) …
[Errno 30] Read-only file system: ‘/usr/share/applications/Thonny.desktop’

5. go to folder

cd ~/.local/share/applications/

6. Create file Thonny.desktop with content below:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Thonny
GenericName=Python IDE
Exec=/sysroot/home/khairul/apps/thonny/bin/thonny %F
Comment=Python IDE for beginners
Icon=/sysroot/home/khairul/apps/thonny/res/thonny.png
StartupWMClass=Thonny
Terminal=false
Categories=Development;IDE
Keywords=programming;education
MimeType=text/x-python;
Actions=Edit;

[Desktop Action Edit]
Exec=/sysroot/home/khairul/apps/thonny/bin/thonny %F
Name=Edit with Thonny

*Please change the home directory into yours

7. Copy the thonny.png

$ cp ~/Documents/thonny/lib/python3.7/site-packages/thonny/res/thonny.png /sysroot/home/khairul/apps/thonny/res/thonny.png

*Please change the home directory into yours

8. Validate the desktop file

$ desktop-file-validate ~/.local/share/applications/Thonny.desktop

Remain in ~/.local/share/applications/ directory

9. Add the Thony to desktop

$ eos-add-to-desktop Thonny

You may upgrade to the latest Thony via Open “Tools => Manage plug-ins” and look for “thonny” in the list then click “Upgrade”

D0n3 !!

[LeandroStanger]

The Endless OS is only compatible with Flatpak Applications. At the moment Thonny doesn’t have a Flatpak version

You can install using the toolbox command. The Toolbox is a tool that offers a familiar RPM based environment for developing and debugging software that runs fully unprivileged using Podman. I recommend reading the toolbox command documentation using the command toolbox --help or toolbox/doc at main · debarshiray/toolbox · GitHub

Create a new toolbox container using the command:

toolbox create

To run the toolbox use the command:

toolbox enter

To install Thonny use the command:

sudo dnf install thonny

To run Thonny use the command:

thonny

[cikguyob]

Thank you…for sharing about thonny.

[wjt]

@LeandroStanger

The Endless OS is only compatible with Flatpak Applications.

This isn’t true, as evidenced by two different ways to install a non-Flatpak version of Thonny in this thread!