Installing Sherpa RPA on Alt Linux#

Root or sudo privileges are required to install.

1. Install .NET Core 8#

Run the following in a terminal:

Switch to the administrator account:

su

Download the .NET install script:

wget https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh -O dotnet-install.sh

Make the script executable:

chmod +x ./dotnet-install.sh

Install the SDK into /usr/share/dotnet:

./dotnet-install.sh --channel 8.0 --install-dir /usr/share/dotnet

Open the system environment configuration file for editing:

mcedit /etc/profile

In /etc/profile insert this line before the [ -n "$PATH"] line:

[ -n "$DOTNET_ROOT" ] || DOTNET_ROOT="/usr/share/dotnet"

Export the variable into the environment:

export DOTNET_ROOT

Before the export PATH line in /etc/profile add:

PATH="$PATH:$DOTNET_ROOT:$DOTNET_ROOT/tools"

Reboot the machine;
Update packages:

apt-get update

2. Install language data for Tesseract OCR #

If you plan to use Tesseract OCR or the automatic page rotation detection in the Templating tool, improve recognition quality by doing the following:

Download the archive

wget https://downloads.sherparpa.ru/SherpaRPA/linux/ru/traineddata.zip -O traineddata.zip

Unpack it to the folder

unzip -o traineddata.zip -d /usr/share/tesseract/tessdata

3. Install the libgdiplus library #

To enable keyboard and mouse emulation, install the libgdiplus library.

Run in a terminal:

apt-get install libgdiplus .

4. Download and run the installer#

Run in a terminal:

Remove the old installer if present:

rm -f SherpaRPA ;

Download the latest installer:

wget https://downloads.sherparpa.ru/SherpaRPA/linux/ru/SherpaRPA -O SherpaRPA ;

Make the file executable:

chmod +x SherpaRPA ;

Run the installer:

./SherpaRPA ;

To download and run the installer in one line, you can use the following command combining the steps above: rm -f SherpaRPA && wget https://sherparpa.ru/downloads/linux/SherpaRPA.php -O SherpaRPA && chmod +x SherpaRPA && ./SherpaRPA

If Sherpa was installed previously, a dialog will inform you. You can choose "Install" (to update) or "Remove" (to uninstall);

If this is a first-time installation, or you selected "Install" in the previous dialog, the installer window will appear. You can choose:
- create a desktop shortcut,
- create a Start Menu folder,
- install the Robot for the current user or for all users;