Ben, is there a reason why you do not install/use Livecode Server instead of Livecode IDE on your system?
You could run livecode scripts directly from shell. Regards, Matthias - Matthias Rebbe Life Is Too Short For Boring Code > Am 29.01.2021 um 19:44 schrieb Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > So I want to install LC on a headless - i.e. no GUI, access over SSH - Ubuntu > 20. > > (Then I'll be using it to run a particular stack on a cron job.) > > I've done this a long time ago with a standalone - but in this case I'd > rather be able to do it with a stack. > > The only thing that I know about is "-ui" but I'm not even far enough along > to make use of this. > > My first question is what's the best way to install it? Do I download the > installer, e.g. "LiveCodeCommunityInstaller-9_6_1-Linux.x64", move it to the > server and run it there? Or is that going to be a GUI installer? > > Are there options I need to know about like where it should go? > > And then are there tips about where I put my stacks, how to see error or > debugging output, how the stack reads command line parameters etc? > > Any and all advice welcome - especially of course "go and read this guide > over here you idiot". > > TIA, > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode