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Permission denied on start

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🐧 Platform: Linux
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Description

  • I am on the latest Hyper.app version
  • I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate
  • OS: Arch linux
  • Hyper version: 2.0.0
  • Config: an unmodified config, just downloaded the app
  • Devtools: no errors in console
  • This happened in vanilla hyper app

Issue

I've installed hyper on Arch linux from the AUR, yaourt -S hyper (yaourt is one of the many package managers for the AUR. There doesn't seem to be any error messages in the install process. Once I try and run the hyper app, I get the following ,essage at startup:

running in prod mode
electron will open file:///usr/lib/hyper/resources/app.asar/index.html
Setting Hyper as default client for ssh:// protocol
Failed to symlink Hyper CLI { Error: EACCES: permission denied, unlink '/usr/local/bin/hyper'
  errno: -13,
  code: 'EACCES',
  syscall: 'unlink',
  path: '/usr/local/bin/hyper' }
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This message ^ appears in the terminal I ran hyper from. When I run a hyper command from within the hyper app, such as hyper i hyper-pane, I get the exact same error as above. This error message appears in the hyper app and opens a new hyper window. The dir /usr/local/bin is currently owned by root (which I think it should be?).

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Research direction

Reproduce the issue from an Arch Linux AUR installation and inspect the CLI setup around /usr/local/bin/hyper and the logged Electron startup path file:///usr/lib/hyper/resources/app.asar/index.html. Done means Hyper starts without the EACCES unlink error and commands such as hyper i hyper-pane work from within the app.

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Assessment

Tech stack
arch-linux, electron
Domain
cli, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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