Install Robo3t on Ubuntu18.04 and make a desktop icon for it

Install_robo3t_Ubuntu.md

Install Robo3t On Ubuntu 18.04

Download the package form Robo3t or using wget

wget https://download.robomongo.org/1.2.1/linux/robo3t-1.2.1-linux-x86_64-3e50a65.tar.gz

Extract here using

tar -xvzf robo3t-1.2.1-linux-x86_64-3e50a65.tar.gz

Make a new floder in usr/local/bin from the package

sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin/robo3t

Move the extracted package to usr/local/bin

sudo mv  robo3t-1.2.1-linux-x86_64-3e50a65/* /usr/local/bin/robo3t

Change directory to cd /usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin

Now, We need to give permission to newly created directory using chmod

sudo chmod +x robo3t ./robo3t

Now we can run Robo3t ./robo3t

We can download the icon for Robo3t from and put it here as we will need to make desktop icon later

For example save it on /bin with name icon.png /usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin/icon.png

mv icon.png /usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin

To make desktop icon for Robo3t, we can make a file in usr/share/applications

sudo nano /usr/share/applications/robo3t.desktop

Paste these there and save

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Robo3t
Icon=/usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin/icon.png
Exec="/usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin/robo3t"
Comment=Robo3t 
Categories=Development;
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true

Now, we can find the icon in application launcher menu by search for robo3t

We can check this also

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