installing and running LC on 'headless' linux server

[matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de]

Ben,

is there a reason why you do not install/use Livecode Server instead of Livecode IDE on your system?

You could run livecode scripts directly from shell. 


Regards,
Matthias


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Matthias Rebbe
Life Is Too Short For Boring Code

> Am 29.01.2021 um 19:44 schrieb Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> So I want to install LC on a headless - i.e. no GUI, access over SSH - Ubuntu 20.
> 
> (Then I'll be using it to run a particular stack on a cron job.)
> 
> I've done this a long time ago with a standalone - but in this case I'd rather be able to do it with a stack.
> 
> The only thing that I know about is "-ui" but I'm not even far enough along to make use of this.
> 
> My first question is what's the best way to install it? Do I download the installer, e.g. "LiveCodeCommunityInstaller-9_6_1-Linux.x64", move it to the server and run it there? Or is that going to be a GUI installer?
> 
> Are there options I need to know about like where it should go?
> 
> And then are there tips about where I put my stacks, how to see error or debugging output, how the stack reads command line parameters etc?
> 
> Any and all advice welcome - especially of course "go and read this guide over here you idiot".
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Ben
> 
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