Installing on Linux Mint

Questions & Help
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Hi I’m new to Linux and still have trouble installing software that’s not from the built-in Mint repo. I downloaded the file [Logseq-linux-x64-0.7.4.zip] that’s found on this page Releases · logseq/logseq · GitHub
Problem is that I’m not sure how to commence with the installation. Any help would be greatly appreciated because Logseq looks to be an amazing piece of software!

P.S. Is it possible to completely install Logseq inside an encrypted file, such that all the data is private once I’m done using it?

Thanks in advance,
Rick

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Would installing it from here be a smart way to do it?

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I will consider this one valid -albeit a quite old unanswered question- because I had the same issue. Installed Linux Mint and didn’t find Logseq in Package Manager nor with APT so I ended up searching for a solution.

I ended up on github, where evdcush/logseq_install_update.sh has posted a script to download and install Logseq directly from Github/Logseq. The script installs or updates Logseq so it will be handy in future too.

The only thing I had to troubleshoot is at line 158:

convert -resize 512x512 "${TEMP_DIR}/logseq.png" "${TEMP_DIR}/logseq.png"

As Mint doesn’t have, by default, imagemagik, i didn’t have convert so i ended up using ffmpeg, which exists on a vanilla Mint, so comment the abov or replace with the below:

#convert -resize 512x512 "${TEMP_DIR}/logseq.png" "${TEMP_DIR}/logseq.png"
ffmpeg -loglevel error -i "${TEMP_DIR}/logseq.png" -vf scale=512:512 "${TEMP_DIR}/logseq_tmp.png" && mv "${TEMP_DIR}/logseq_tmp.png" "${TEMP_DIR}/logseq.png"

NOTE: ffmpeg can’t convert in place so a two-step was necessary.

Hope it helps someone :upside_down_face: