This is a good question, and if it’s not going to be supported through the deb channel anymore then they should post proper documentation on how to install the app through the tarball for main distributions.
In the 1.23.x.-xxxxx, the extension conflicts happen ( new version is available, so extensions are stopped in the old one aahhhhhh…!!!)
Tarball setup is not working properly. I just did it. The IDE does not feel like an IDE. I imported a project, but the IDE doesn’t detect the files inside it. The icon is not showing up (need to manually set up to get the icon), launch from the terminal, but it keeps the Terminal open with logs.
Overall, I didn’t like it and don’t feel worthy to install (setup) from a tar.gz file.
lost a couple of token, i ran antigravity ide 2.x then told it to add it self to add to launcher, but it works, download it manually, then ran antigravity on bin folder, then i ask how to add it next time if i want to add it my self
Here is how you can create and register a desktop launcher from the terminal next time:
Step 1: Create the .desktop file
Run the following command to create and write the launcher configuration to your local applications folder:
Exec: The absolute path to the executable, such as [antigravity](file:///home/USERNAME/Downloads/Antigravity-x64/antigravity). The %F argument allows you to open dropped files/folders in the IDE.
Icon: The system icon name or absolute path to an image (e.g., /usr/share/pixmaps/antigravity.png).
StartupWMClass: Groups open windows under the correct launcher icon in your dock/taskbar rather than spawning a generic or separate window group.
OP here. Glad to see I’m not the only one concerned with this issue! Thanks for chiming in, everyone.
For what it’s worth, there is a lot of discussion happening on X around the upgrade - in general, not just about Linux. I sent a tweet about the topic, we’ll see if it gets any traction: https://x.com/nateradetunes/status/2059458946646098338
Nah, I am not going to install IDE from tar.gz archive, it’s extremely weird, and would require quite some manual steps for each upgrade.
I’d better revert back to VS Code or other alternatives then. It’s good that I haven’t payed for the early subscription yet though, so not vendor-locked for now.
And if Google doesn’t want to have Linux customers - it’s their right I guess.
I don’t see there any makefile either to have that said, so they’re shipping pre-build libraries with it and actually must have weird dependencies for that to work…
How upgrades are goona look like? Go, manually download, unpack, migrate config, change .desktop path? And do that kinda couple of times per month?
Isn’t it too much of an ask for the paid product?
So will stick with vscodium or smth properly packaged until Google sort out their Linux support, with at least smth like AppImages, or flatpak or revive distro packaging…
And there I am also in control of a model and can get some local Gemma as well…
If IDE will even stay for that long given overall 2.0 thing.
Yeah, an AppImage would be nice for people that doesn’t want to deal with it. There is a community driven repo out there that does that, but yeah, isn’t official.
