Thanks for a hint, I see that it is available in hub. I still need to solve bogus complaint about missing free space (total space available 40 GB, space required 11.7 GB, but attempt to install is blocked due to missing free space), but hopefully I am on a correct road.
Did you set the installation location in the Hub?
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No, thank you for pointing it out! But after setting it I am still bitten by this issue
It looks like "There is not enough space to download and install the selected items" BUG
It appears that
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Unity Hub wants to download files to /tmp that is for some reason limited to 1.9 GB (and apparently there is no method to override this download location and it is not mentioning why it actually fails)
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lsblk and KDE partition manager is not showing /tmp as being on a separate partition. And I selected to have / mount point on a single partition. Without splitting /tmp or /home or anything else to separate partitions. To avoid exactly this kind of problem.
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is maybe /tmp using swap partition? (afaik not but I am running out of ideas)
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is there some other limit of /tmp folder size? Even when not mounted on a separate partition? When I navigate with PsManFM-qt to /tmp it is showing that I have only 1.9 GB of free space. When I am in / or in /home it is showing >48 GB of free space (I made some further cleanup)
What Linux are you using? And where did you get the Hub?
I’m under Linux Mint 19.3 and I’m using the hub appimage that is provided by Unity ** here ** and I have no problems of any kind installing the editor. I prefer using the appimage; I tried the Unity Hub that was on Mint app store and I had weird results with it.
Lubuntu 19.10, Hub 2.2.2 is from https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/InstallingUnityLinux.html
It turns out that I was confused by fact that single partition may have multiple file system with size limits.
In my case /tmp has size limit of 2GB
I found out that I can change size limit using
sudo mount -o remount,size=10G /tmp
command. This allowed installation to proceed.
Disclaimer: it may work OK or may delete all your files. I do not really care as I have backups. Make sure that you have backups before running random commands from post made by a confused programmer.
Weird, I don’t think /tmp has a size limit in my installation; it’s just a folder like any other in the File System directory…
I also though so, but it turns to have its own filesystem in a default Lubuntu 19.10 install (confirmed by df -h | grep tmp)
EDIT: sorry for offtopic
On topic: 2019.3.0f6 is great!
I was using an earlier version (just going through the most basic tutorials like roll-the-ball one) and there was plenty of glitches like transparent color picker window, menus staying visible for several seconds after closing them, “add component” menu was transparent, poor font size, lag etc.
All of that is gone in 2019.3.0f6
offtopic: As I understand: you have multiple, special purpose filesystems for storing temporary files (see tmpfs - Wikipedia ), but unlike my system none is used for /tmp that has no eparate system on your computer
For example /run is a special filesystem available early in the boot process ( linux - What is this new /run filesystem? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange ), /dev/shm is like /tmp but backed by RAM not by drive ( linux - When should I use /dev/shm/ and when should I use /tmp/? - Super User ), /run/lock is for lock files used by processes (mount - What are "/run/lock" and "/run/shm" used for? - Ask Ubuntu )…
I recently delivered a large client project running 2019.3.0f6 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Gnome and X11.
The only issue I ran into was with the popupwindow flag to launch the application – that does not work and apparently has not worked since 5.5.1
We were able to do a workaround using xdotool.
Other than that, it performs flawlessly, even playing nice with Nvidia Mosaic and a large array of monitors.
Good job, Unity!
Do we have any info about why the Linux 2019.3 standalone installer is not available via url, as referenced for older versions in this thread? Unity on Linux: Release Notes and Known Issues page-2
And more importantly, do we know when this link will be available ?
No idea, but you can install an earlier version and upgrade using Unity Hub.
I just realized that Ubuntu dropped that dreadfull UI called Unity years ago. Why do people still say Ubuntu with Gnome. That’s the default since some years ago. I will soon get rid of my dual boot and go with Mint (I’m currently using it with not issues at all) or Ubuntu (So that Unity won’t nag when I report the many bugs that are in my list so far haha ).
Kudos to the Unity team for finally looking into our favorite operating system.
The latests Unity download links should be here: https://gitlab.com/gableroux/unity3d/-/blob/master/ci-generator/unity_versions.old.yml
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There’s a 2019.3 for Linux? I’m keeping an eye on the stickied Release Notes thread but since there have been no new posts since the 2019.1 release I assumed Unity for Linux development was dead…
I appreciate all the hard work on the Linux editor, don’t get me wrong. Really want to get rid of working on Windows for production (uegh bloatware and all that) but we’re stuck on 2018.4 LTS for our current release.
As a sidenote: the roadmap Linux Support item still contains a link to the now defunct Unity Feedback website.
Of course, it’s in the Hub.
Yes the release for Linux Editor are now via the stand Unity release notes so look there for information about fixes etc…
How exactly did you get Unity on Ubuntu 19.10?
for reference, I this is what I am using
Just by using the unity hub.
I am running it on Linux Mint 20. Unity 2020 is better in a few ways:
- Unity 2019 does not have multi-window support at least for me
- Unity 2019 BOLT Visual Scripting Tool does not work. I cannot use the Fuzzy Finder in BOLT
Can someone give me link for unity 5.3 or 2021 offline installer in ubuntu? Do you know if it works on ubuntu 21? Last time i installed 2020 version from hub the editor was freezing when i press the close button