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Hello! smiley

I am using Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon. Any idea how to install Twine? Thanks!

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I don't know whether there is sth special with Cinnamon, but with LinuxMint Xfce using Twine is straight forward:

  1. checkout if you run 32bit or 64bit Linux
  2. Download appropriate Twine version from twinery.org
  3. unzip the download
  4. cd into twine_2.2.1 directory and call  ./Twine on command line
    ==> a window with Twine will open
Of course one can use the online available Twine via the 'use it online' link on twinery org - story files will locate on your pc and *not* in the cloud. That one uses the browsers file space and needs some attention not to delete stories when resetting the browsers data.
  I prefer the online Twine to checkout out code snippets immediately, while using the installed version for longterm projects.
 
I will add comments to steps 1 to 4 in a separate comment.
Hope, that helps a bit.
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To go more into details:

  1. checkout if you run 32bit or 64bit Linux
    e.g. in a terminal window run
    uname -m
    Result could be i686 for 32bit  and x86_64 for 64bit.
    This are examples of my hardware, I can imagine there are more cases or legacy entries which one has to google. i386 points at 32bit, too.
  2. Download appropriate Twine version from twinery.org with your browser
    On twinery.org the download links are listed on the yellow post-it like note, I paste them here:
    64bit: https://github.com/klembot/twinejs/releases/download/2.2.1/twine_2.2.1_linux64.zip
    32bit: https://github.com/klembot/twinejs/releases/download/2.2.1/twine_2.2.1_linux32.zip
  3. unzip the download
    Many ways to do this, also with gui tools.
    With an opened terminal it could be done with (assuming, you downloaded to directory Downloads in your home directory):
    cd ~/Downloads
    unzip twine_2.2.1_linuxZZ.zip   # (replace ZZ with 32 or 64 respectively)
    then a twine_2.2.1 folder should be created in the Downloads directory.
  4. cd into twine_2.2.1 directory and call  ./Twine on command line
    can be done in the same terminal window
    cd twine_2.2.1
    ./Twine
    ==> a window with Twine will open
 
Was this helpful or too nerdy with all that terminal stuff?
 
Does it work as expected or does your environment behave different?
Kind regards.
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Not too nerdy at all!

Thank God I'm already using Linux for one year! cheekylaugh

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Thanks for the reply, it's always hard to guess at what experience level the asker expects an answer to be helpful.

Have fun using Linux *and* Twine (the best of 2 worlds :-) :-) :-) )
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