How to build from source?

Questions & Help
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Hey, I recently try look into the source code of logseq and wanting to build the app from the source for general desktop use. I noticed that there’s no documentation on that, I know to build the desktop app by running yarn release-electron, but what are the steps after that, how can I copy the file to correct directory in order for the system to pick it up for searching/indexing, etc? I’m on linux

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Welcome to the community @howarddo! I’ve moved this topic (#docs is for finished documentation) and changed the title slightly to make it more descriptive. I hope you don’t mind.

To answer your question, you can find more information on how to build from source in these docs:

I hope it’s useful.

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yes, I know how to build it, but what to do with the built files is the problem. There is still no document on that. For example, I tried to put the built Logseq-linux-64 in to ~/Applications the file into a folder a created a file ~/.local/share/applications/logseq.desktop so linux desktop can search for it in the launcher. It’s now working fine, but the app link is broken.

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Hope you may find some clue via the installing package builder that Logseq is using for Linux:

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Compile & Release on Linux:

yarn install && yarn release
cd static/
yarn install && yarn electron:make

Then you will have a .AppImage executable in static/out/make/.

To create a .desktop file, you can refer com.logseq.Logseq/com.logseq.Logseq.desktop at master · flathub/com.logseq.Logseq · GitHub .

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Thank you! this is it