Now, we have some videos and other documentation that talks about the various additions here. So, you'll probably see a web browser in a new tab appear here.Īnd it will give you this addition selection here. Commissioning is always done through a web browser. Which is basically some additional configuration we make, before we can really dig in.
So, clicking finish here exits the install wizard and takes us to the next part, which is something we call system commissioning. I'm going to leave both of these with the defaults and click Finish. Install service will install ignition as a service, allowing you to interact with it like you would any other service on the operating system. Start ignition now, means just what it says, start the ignition gateway right now, which allows you to start building a project.
So, we reached the end of the install wizard and we have two checkboxes. So, click the Install button, and I'm going to speed this part up here, so you don't have to wait for me. I'm going to leave Typical selected and click Next. You can always add and remove modules after the installation process, so, no need to fret the choice now. Custom also allows you to pass in any third party modules you may want to add right now. While custom allows you to pick which modules to install. The typical option here, will automatically install our most popular modules. We'll talk about modules later, but each module provides a set of features to ignition. This choice determines which modules will install initially. So now we have to pick an installation type. However, I'm just going to leave it with the default and move on. This is useful if you're pretty peculiar about where you'd like to install ignition. I'll click next here to start with, and our first option is to select an installation location. And at this point, the installer is going run some integrity testing and more or less get ready to run the wizard. You'll know if that's the case, because it will fail and tell you you need to run it as root.
Now, I didn't have to here, but in some cases, you may need to type "sudo" first. And then I'll start typing the name of the file, and press tab to automatically fill in the rest. So, I'll switch over and I'll type period forward slash. Now, at this point, you'll likely be able to double click the RUN file and run the installer.īut you can also use terminal as well, which I'll show you for this video. And you can see that execute has now been set. And just to give you a visual representation of what that did, I'm going to right click on Properties again go back to permissions. So I'll go ahead and type change mod, or C-H- M-O-D +x and then the name of the file which you can just start typing and then hit the Tab key to fill in the rest of the name. And regardless, you can always open a terminal, and you can always use our friend change mode to make this executable. But depending on your desktop environment, this part might be a little bit different. So, we could click the little checkbox here to change that. And then if we switch over to permissions, we can see that currently under execute, this file is not allowed to execute as a program. Now in the desktop environment I'm using here, I can right click, go down to properties. Now the first thing you're going to need to do, is to make sure that you can actually execute this RUN file as a program.
Now, to save you the time of watching me download this, I already have it in my downloads folder here.
It's not really necessary to install edge, you can actually use the middle option the generic zip to install edge maker or standard edition of ignition. Now, we also have this edge installer, which is sort of a focused or dedicated installer that can be used to install edge.
The zip file there does contain a README that will tell you what to do, but I won't be covering that in this video.
Now the process for this is a little bit different than the one I'm going to show you here in the video. I'm using the top option here, but we also have the generic zip install files. Now, for Linux, we do have a couple of options here.
If we scroll down on our downloads page here, and we head over to our other operating systems, you get a full list of all the various installers that we have available. Now in this video, I'm going to use the "n" file. But of course the look of the site may change over time. Before we begin, you're going to want to head over to our website, that's And you're going to want to go to the downloads page, there should be a button somewhere on our website. In this lesson we'll install ignition on Linux.