Linux Installation Notes
On Linux, Wing can be installed from RPM, Debian package, or from tar archive. Use the latter if you do not have root access on your machine or wish to install Wing somewhere other than /usr/lib/wingpro10. Only 64-bit Linux is supported, although in Wing Pro remote development can be used to develop on a 32-bit host.
The instructions here are for Wing Pro. The package naming for Wing Personal is instead wing-personal10 and for Wing 101 it is wing-101-10.
Installing Wingware's Public Key
Some systems will complain when you try to install Wing without first installing our public key into your key repository. The key is available here. Copy and paste the key into a file wingware.pub and then use the following to import the key.
For RPM systems:
sudo rpm --import wingware.pub
For Debian systems:
sudo apt-key add wingware.pub
An alternative is just to bypass the key check with --nogpg command line option for rpm, --nogpgcheck for yum, --no-debsig for dpkg, and --allow-unauthenticated for apt.
Dependencies
In order to support as many Debian and Redhat derived distributions as possible with a single package download, the approach to dependency management in Wing packages is somewhat different than for regular distribution-specific packages:
1) Wing includes private copies of most of its dependencies (including Qt, PyQt, OpenSSH, Python, and others) so that it only depends on low-level OS-provided packages that are more likely to be compatible across systems.
2) Wing packages do not list every dependency by name because some of those are renamed in derived distributions. In most cases, if you follow the instructions below, dependencies introduced by packages we do list take care of installing also the unlisted packages.
In rare cases, you may need to first manually install what's necessary to run Qt and X11 applications. Once that is done, Wing should have what it needs to run.
Installing from RPM
Wing can be installed from an RPM package on RPM-based systems, such as RedHat, CentOS, and Oracle Linux.
For the easiest installation, with automatic package dependency management, run sudo yum localinstall wingpro10-10.0.10.0.x86_64.rpm
You can also install with sudo rpm -i wingpro10-10.0.10.0.x86_64.rpm but this does not automatically install dependencies and may fail to clearly list what dependencies are missing.
Or use your favorite RPM administration tool.
Most files for Wing are placed under the /usr/lib/wingpro10 directory and the wing10.0 command is placed in the /usr/bin directory.
Installing from Debian package
Wing can be installed from a Debian package on Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, Mint, and other Debian-based systems.
For the easiest installation, with automatic package dependency management, run sudo apt install ./wingpro10_10.0.10.0_amd64.deb
You can also install with sudo dpkg -i wingpro10_10.0.10.0_amd64.deb but this does not automatically install dependencies, requiring you to also run sudo apt-get -f install to complete the installation.
Most files for Wing are placed under the /usr/lib/wingpro10 directory and the wing10.0 command is placed in the /usr/bin directory.
Installing from Tar Archive
Wing may also be installed from a tar archive. This can be used on systems that do not use RPM or Debian packages, or if you wish to install Wing into a directory other than /usr/lib/wingpro10.
Unpacking this archive with tar -zxvf wingpro-10.0.10.0-linux-x64.tar.gz will create a wingpro-10.0.10.0-linux-x64 directory that contains the wing-install.py script.
To install from that:
> cd wingpro-10.0.10.0-linux-x64 > ./wing-install.py
This will prompt for the location to install Wing, and the location in which to place the executable wing10.0. These locations default to /usr/local/lib/wingpro and /usr/local/bin, respectively. The install program must have read/write access to both of these directories, and all users running Wing must have read access to both.
Note that there is no dependency management in the tar archive installer, so you may need to manually install what's necessary to run Qt and X11 applications, before Wing can start up successfully.
Configuring Wing for High DPI Displays
Wing's UI is implemented with the Qt toolkit, which includes support for high DPI displays, but the support varies depending on the desktop environment in use:
On KDE, as of early 2019, Wing should display correctly.
On Gnome, as of early 2019, Wing may suggest an interface scale factor based on the size of a character on the primary display.
If Wing is not displaying correctly, the user interface may be scaled manually. To scale icons, windows, and other elements other than fonts, use the User Interface > Other > Icon and Window Scale Factor preference. To scale the entire UI, including fonts, use Presentation Mode in the common configuration menu, which is accessed from the menu icon in the top right of Wing's window.
The QT_* environment variables described at https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html may also be used to scale Wing's display.
