Installing Scratch on a 64x machine & creating desktop icon. (Ubuntu)

The following instruction can be used to install scratch in a 64x machine.

• Download the Adobe Air and Scratch files from:

  https://scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download/

• The following libraries are needed:

  sudo apt-get install libxt6:i386 libnspr4-0d:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libnss3-1d:i386 lib32nss-mdns libxml2:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386

• Now you have to create a symbolic link to your gnome keyring:

  sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0

  sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0 /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0.2.0

• cd into the directory with the AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
• sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
• Now install Scratch 2:

  sudo “Adobe AIR Application Installer” /path/to/scratch2/installer/Scratch-437.air

Now making scratch an executable and run when double clicked ( usually needs manual configuration in Ubuntu)

1. define .sb2 file’s type
sudo vi /usr/share/mime/package/***.xml
*** is new file’s name. Set is as you like. ex)scratch2
write text below in the file

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>
<mime-info xmlns=”http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info“>
<mime-type type=”application/x-scratch2“>
<comment></comment>
<glob pattern=”*.sb2“/>
</mime-type>
</mime-info>

2. associate .sb2 file with scratch 2 application
Find ”edu.media.mit.scratch2editor.desktop” file under directory of /usr/share/applications/ ,
and add only one line in the last line of that desktop file.
MimeType=application/x-scratch2

3. update
sudo update-desktop-databese
sudo update-mime-database

4. reboot PC

Common mistakes or typos:
– “/usr/share/mime/package/” should be “/usr/share/mime/packages/”;
– “sudo update-desktop-databese” should be “sudo update-desktop-database”;
– “sudo update-mime-database” should be “sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime”

http://programmingexplorer.weebly.com/blog/installing-scratch-2-on-ubuntu-linux-1404-64-bit

https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/187916/