Install Robo3t on Ubuntu18.04 and make a desktop icon for it

Install_robo3t_Ubuntu.md

Install Robo3t On Ubuntu 18.04

Download the package form Robo3t or using wget

wget https://download.robomongo.org/1.2.1/linux/robo3t-1.2.1-linux-x86_64-3e50a65.tar.gz

Extract here using

tar -xvzf robo3t-1.2.1-linux-x86_64-3e50a65.tar.gz

Make a new floder in usr/local/bin from the package

sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin/robo3t

Move the extracted package to usr/local/bin

sudo mv  robo3t-1.2.1-linux-x86_64-3e50a65/* /usr/local/bin/robo3t

Change directory to cd /usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin

Now, We need to give permission to newly created directory using chmod

sudo chmod +x robo3t ./robo3t

Now we can run Robo3t ./robo3t

We can download the icon for Robo3t from and put it here as we will need to make desktop icon later

For example save it on /bin with name icon.png /usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin/icon.png

mv icon.png /usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin

To make desktop icon for Robo3t, we can make a file in usr/share/applications

sudo nano /usr/share/applications/robo3t.desktop

Paste these there and save

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Robo3t
Icon=/usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin/icon.png
Exec="/usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin/robo3t"
Comment=Robo3t 
Categories=Development;
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true

Now, we can find the icon in application launcher menu by search for robo3t

We can check this also

Reference

If the launcher doesn't group the open robo3t windows for you (you click on it and it opens a separate entry in your dock instead of stacking it with the launcher icon). You can add the following to the launcher entry:

sudo nano /usr/share/applications/robo3t.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Robo3t
Icon=/usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin/icon.png
Exec="/usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin/robo3t"
Comment=Robo3t 
Categories=Development;
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=robo3t

Where StartupWMClass=robo3t specifies the name of the window that robo3t launches.

@fernandobandeira thanks for this 👍

Thanks a lot, bro

Thanks a lot!
In fact, installing applications and creating shortcuts in Ubuntu is very easy 😏

Thanks for it. It was so easy...
Now the latest version of robo3T is 1.4.3
So I tried another wget key instead of the older one for installing the latest version of robo3T, and it is running fine in Ubuntu 20.04.

wget https://download.studio3t.com/robomongo/linux/robo3t-1.4.3-linux-x86_64-48f7dfd.tar.gz

and now to extract the tar.gz file:

tar -xvzf robo3t-1.4.3-linux-x86_64-48f7dfd.tar.gz

reference

Thanks for this :)

why we are not just typing a simple command rather than this thing

sudo snap install robo3t-snap

why we are not just typing a simple command rather than this thing

sudo snap install robo3t-snap

+1

Thank you :)

thank you:)

Thank you!

Works like a charm

awesome, thanks ! still works (10.18.2021)

Thanks so much!

Thank you!

perfecto thanks

awesome, thank you!

Thanks buddy... much appreciated

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thank u!

New of the latest version of Robo 3T is v.1.4.4
wget https://download.studio3t.com/robomongo/linux/robo3t-1.4.4-linux-x86_64-e6ac9ec.tar.gz

Perfect. Thank you! :)

Thanks, saved the day

Thanks, saved the day!

With the new "Studio 3T Free" you don't need to configure the installation manually. There is now a shell script included in the downloaded archive and the only thing you need to do is to run the shell script included in the archive.

./studio-3t-linux-x64.sh

With the new "Studio 3T Free" you don't need to configure the installation manually. There is now a shell script included in the downloaded archive and the only thing you need to do is to run the shell script included in the archive.

./studio-3t-linux-x64.sh

Is there a way to open new studio 3t from the terminal as I'm using wsl2?

@saisiddardha Unfortunately, I do not have experience with running the Linux GUI apps through WSL2, but by looking at the official Microsoft documentation, as per my understanding, only certain Linux GUI apps are currently supported for now.

Thanks @unigazer for the quick response, will try it out.

muchas gracias

Thankyou! 👯