Cannot lauch Tide on Linux

[EisFrei]

Used Package: https://github.com/tingbot/tide-electron/releases/download/v0.5.7/Tide-0.5.7-amd64.deb

When trying to launch Tide it just throws an error, which appears to be a problem with the electron builder used:
electron-userland/electron-builder#2958

$ Tide
module.js:442
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module '/opt/Tide/resources/electron.asar/browser/init.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:440:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:388:25)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:575:10)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:360:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:152:9)
    at bootstrap_node.js:479:3

[chrisbeardy]

see issue #67 , its about permissons for the resources folder, that seems to solve it

[billkouts]

Hello! I am also unable to make Tide work on linux.
I am using Ubuntu 20.04
I have downloaded the deb package from here
I double clicked the deb file which opens the Ubuntu Software app to perform the install
The Ubuntu Software then gets stuck on starting up

It looks like its a different problem to the OPs, if that is the case let me know and i can open a new issue.

[billkouts]

I tried installing from the terminal, and I got the following:

(Reading database ... 201300 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack Tide-0.5.8-amd64.deb ...
Unpacking tide (0.5.8-173) over (0.5.8-173) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tide:
 tide depends on python2.7; however:
  Package python2.7 is not installed.
 tide depends on python-cryptography; however:
  Package python-cryptography is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package tide (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tide

So it looks like it needs a specific version of python (python2.7) which is not there, plus one dependency (python-cryptography)
Considering python 2 is officially terminated, do you think that providing a new version of Tide that uses python 3 is possible?

[joerick]

Hey @billkouts ! You might try installing those dependencies manually, it's possible they're still available via apt.

As for Python 3… Upgrading Tide to use it would be one part, you'd also need to update tingbot-python to use it, and the Tingbot OS, if you're using the hardware too. It's not something that I have time for at the moment, but everything is open source, so feel free to give it a go yourself if you're interested. I'm happy to provide pointers if needed.