Following lesage's instructions, after downloading base,
setup the following two config files and docker commands.
file: Dockerfile
# Sample Dockerfile with xterm gui on Ubuntu (not alpine-3.6n)
FROM jlesage/baseimage-gui:ubuntu-18.04
RUN add-pkg sudo xterm
RUN add-pkg python3-gi-cairo gsettings-backend dconf-gsettings-backend rmlint-gui
# _-gi-cairo solves: TypeError: Couldn't find foreign struct converter for 'cairo.Context'
COPY startapp.sh /startapp.sh
# Set the name of the application, and other exported values
ENV APP_NAME="Xterm"
ENV TAKE_CONFIG_OWNERSHIP 1
# /config writable with UID 1000 gut /app directory still ro-unaccessible
ENV USER_ID 0
# solves limited privileges mentioned (or else keep default UID 1000)
file: startapp.sh
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/xterm
Run these docker commands in host terminal:
cd docker-baseimage-gui-master
docker build -t docker-xterm-rmlint .
docker run --rm -p 5800:5800 docker-xterm-rmlint
Your guest shell interface is accessible by browser URL:
http://localhost:5800/
Test virtual machine rmlint-gui by creating a duped file set:
mkdir subdir ; echo 123 | tee ./subdir/fileB > ./subdir/fileA
rmlint --gui # that's space-dash-dash-gui
In rmlint graphical interface:
[add current /app directory]
[click ">" on the right of /app]
[notice fileA and fileB are 2 twins]
[click on subdir]
[click on render-selected]
[notice original and dupe files listed at bottom of rendered script]
[click test with dry-run still activated, or allow real deletion prior to click]
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Beware, as of may2020, this rmlint gui on ubuntu 18 has 3 annoying attributes:
-> DANGEROUS : Ignores modifications made to rendered script, even if you save it!
-> Seems to ignore toggling which file is original and which is not
-> need to click on a directory containing all dupes files before rendering Selected
Solution:
If you need to change manually the saved rendered script, run it from shell, not GUI.
Rmlint has many other features,
(lucky you if you use btrfs: check out cp --reflink=always)
