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Tauri by Simon
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Ubuntu

Tauri relies a lot on system dependencies, it’s largely why the bundle size can be kept so small in comparison to some other frameworks cough cough Electron cough.

Your end users will require some of these to use your app but don’t worry, the installers Tauri creates take care of ensuring your user has them installed.

Terminal window
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev \
  build-essential \
  curl \
  wget \
  file \
  libssl-dev \
  libayatana-appindicator3-dev \
  librsvg2-dev

Simply run this command and it will install rustup. Follow the prompts and remember to restart your terminal once it’s done.

Terminal window
# Do you trust me? Just run this magic command!
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
Terminal window
# Don't trust me? Come on I thought we were pals!
# Download the script
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf > rustup.sh
# Read the script
less ./rustup.sh
# Satisfied? Good, now run it!
cat ./rustup.sh | sh

Terminal window
# Change to stable
rustup default stable
# Change to nightly
rustup default nightly

I tend to set up a simple cronjob to keep Rust up to date. While a project might have a minimum supported version for whatever reason there’s not really any good reason for you to not be using the very latest version available.

Use crontab.guru to figure out cronjob scheduling.

Terminal window
sudo crontab -e
# For stable, once a week is enough
0 0 * * 0 rustup update
# For nightly, once per, well, night, is plenty
0 0 * * * rustup update

To verify that your system is set up correctly you should run a basic bootstrapped project.

This by the way is the way I tend to help people with their issues, running these commands to set up a fresh new project, try compiling it to verify Tauri isn’t fundamentally broken, then add whatever code is needed to test your code. So if you ever have to make a reproduction of a problem this is the basic setup you should do as well.

I’ll be using pnpm here but you can adapt this to whatever method you want (that Tauri supports).

Terminal window
# Run create-tauri-app
# Just spam enter to get all defaults
pnpm create tauri-app --beta
# Install dependencies
pnpm install
# Run the app
pnpm tauri dev

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