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I want to enable react -native-debugger on react native development environment. so i followed https://github.com/jhen0409/react-native-debugger

and downloaded the rn-debugger-linux-x64.zip

then i unzip the file.

what i want know is after that how i manually start the react-native-debugger?

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You just have to - download .deb file

https://github.com/jhen0409/react-native-debugger/releases

  • double clic to react-native-debugger_0.10.5_amd64.deb

  • install the app and use this like all other app in your computer

1pulsif
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  • Right-clicking did not work instead it opened in Archive Manager. I used the terminal: ```sudo dpkg -i react-native-debugger_0.13.0_amd64.deb``` – TrevorDeTutor Mar 21 '23 at 21:05
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You have 2 main options: the binary files and the deb file.

If you go for the binary files:

  1. Download the file rn-debugger-linux-x64.zip
  2. Unpack/extract the content of the file
  3. Navigate to where you extracted the package and execute it with /. (dot slash) as ./react-native-debugger

  4. You can also add an alias for it in your .bashrc/.bash_profile (or .zshrc if you're using zsh), e.g.

    alias rn-debug="~/react-native-debugger/react-native-debugger"

If you go for the deb file: Here you have 3 options:

  1. double click: Super simple but you may have the well known dependency error.
  2. gdebi: It is a lightweight GUI application with the sole purpose of installing deb packages. It identifies the dependencies and tries to install these along with the .deb files.
  3. dpkg/apt line command: sudo apt install path_to_deb_file

For me gdebi is the best option among all. So with gdebi just download the deb file, open gdebi and indicate to it the path to your file. Piece of cake!

I hope this helps!

Watchmaker
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When you unzip all the files, you will find executable inside. In Ubuntu you run it in terminal from your folder with:

./react-native-debugger

Hope this helps

milanC64
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https://github.com/jhen0409/react-native-debugger/issues/116#issuecomment-475866514

to install on Ubuntu you will need to:

  1. download the latest rn-debugger-linux-x64.zip from

  2. unzip it and move the folder to /opt

    cd ~/Downloads sudo unzip rn-debugger-linux-x64.zip -d /opt/ReactNativeDebugger

  3. preferably rename the executable

    cd /opt/ReactNativeDebugger sudo mv 'React Native Debugger' rndebugger

  4. Add the folder which includes the React Native Debugger renamed executable to your path

    vim ~/.bash_profile export PATH="$PATH:/opt/ReactNativeDebugger"

  5. Download the icon from the repository and place it in your /opt/ReactNativeDebugger folder

    sudo mv ~/Downloads/logo.png /opt/ReactNativeDebugger/logo.png

  6. Create a desktop entry, so that you can pin react native debugger to your dock

    vim ~/.local/share/applications/rndebugger.desktop

Include and edit the entry and save the file. It is important that you replace Exec and Icon with the absolute path to the executable and logo files

[Desktop Entry]
Version=0.9.7
Type=Application
Name=ReactNativeDebugger
Exec=/opt/ReactNativeDebugger/rndebugger
Icon=/opt/ReactNativeDebugger/logo.png
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=rndebugger
Vigneshwaran Chandrasekaran
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Download. deb files from https://github.com/jhen0409/react-native-debugger/releases

To install a . deb file, simply Right click on the . ...

Alternatively, you can also install a .deb file by opening a terminal and typing: sudo dpkg -i package_file.deb.

To uninstall a .deb file, remove it using Adept, or type: sudo apt-get remove package_name.

Aditya_Tarale
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Check out the Getting Started section of their repo; https://github.com/jhen0409/react-native-debugger/blob/master/docs/getting-started.md

SHG21
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    I just want to know how to install and run it on linux os. Ubuntu 19.04 –  Jun 05 '19 at 13:28