How to install RIDE on Debian 11

RIDE is the Integrated Development Environment for Robot Framework. It's a good idea to have nice debugging tools for your projects, so this is a guide on how to install those on Debian 11.

Kalle Tolonen
July 13, 2022

Requirements

1. Debian 11
2. Knowledge in Linux
3. Salt

Salt State to install all the required pkg’s

I made a Salt state to install all the pkg’s in source 1.

robot-pkgs:
  pkg.installed:
    - pkgs:
      - dpkg-dev
      - build-essential
      - python3-dev
      - freeglut3-dev
      - libgl1-mesa-dev
      - libglu1-mesa-dev
      - libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
      - libgtk-3-dev
      - libjpeg-dev
      - libnotify-dev
      - libpng-dev
      - libsdl2-dev
      - libsm-dev
      - libtiff-dev
      - libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
      - libxtst-dev

You can learn more about Salt and Infrastructure as Code here. The way to do this without Salt is to just install all the above pkg’s manually with apt-get.

sudo apt-get install -y pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 etc

Requirements.txt

My requirements look like this for my project:

wxpython
wheel
pygame
robotframework
robotframework-ride

Running RIDE

After installing the system pkg’s and environment pkg’s I could start ride quite easily from my project’s top directory:

ride

Sources

1. https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix/blob/master/README.rst
2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32284938/how-to-properly-install-wxpython