How to install Robomongo from tar.gz file as a program in Ubuntu 15.10

Question

Nowadays robomongo developers releasing the new versions of robomongo as tar.gz not in .deb packages that was easy for double click installations. But

Answer 1

You can first extract the package:

cd ~/Downloads
tar -xzf robo3t-x.x.x-linux-x86_64-xxxxxxx.tar.gz

You can rename the folder to something simpler

mv robo3t-x.x.x-linux-x86_64-xxxxxxx robo3t

Dowload any images with format .png [click here][1] (For whatever reason, the Robo3T package itself does not contain any png file for the icon)

Save the image like robo3t.png and move this image to folder robo3t and then, instead of dumping the whole thing in /usr you can transfer this directory to /opt directory and symlink the binary file to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. This makes for a better way of organising your applications, and keeping such add-on packages is what /opt is for.

So first move the directory

sudo mv robo3t /opt

and then symlink it like so

sudo ln -s /opt/robo3t/bin/robo3t /usr/bin/robo3t

then you can create an Unity desktop file for your launcher

nano ~/.local/share/applications/robo3t.desktop

and finally; paste the next code in the file newly created

 [Desktop Entry]
       Encoding=UTF-8
       Name=Robo 3T
       Exec=robo3t
       Icon=/opt/robo3t/robo3t.png
       Terminal=false
       Type=Application
       Categories=Development;

And Happy coding!