How to install flipper server on linux?

[kuchaguangjie]

Using react-native to develop android app.
When click Open Debugger from android phone, the dev server on my linux shows:

info Launching JS debugger...
warn Attempting to debug JS in Flipper (deprecated). This requires Flipper to be installed on your system to handle the 'flipper://' URL scheme.

So, I tried to install flipper on my linux laptop, but didn't figure out how:

• The download link from https://fbflipper.com/docs/getting-started/ is broken: https://www.facebook.com/fbflipper/public/linux
• I tried to download from github release, but after uncompress got a package/ dir, which:
  • can't failed to installl via pnpm i
  • failed to run via node server.js

So, how to get a flipper executable for linux that can be run directly ?

[kuchaguangjie]

Ok, I've install & started flipper via yarn, but still got:

warn Attempting to debug JS in Flipper (deprecated). This requires Flipper to be installed on your system to handle the 'flipper://' URL scheme.

[kuchaguangjie]

Just switched to expo, which is easier to use I think.

[yogirajc]

Just switched to expo, which is easier to use I think.

Doesn't seem as a solution to the original issue

It is still not working -
╰─ ./server.js [flipper-server] Starting flipper server with pre-bundled UI 2024-03-31T10:10:47.433Z [FileStreamRotator] Logging to: /home/abc/Downloads/package/static/flipper-server-log.out 2024-03-31T10:10:47.434Z [FileStreamRotator] Rotating file: size: 1048576 Server startup error: TypeError: (0 , flipper_common_1.addLogTailer) is not a function at initializeLogger (/home/yogirajc/Downloads/package/lib/logger.js:47:39) at async start (/home/yogirajc/Downloads/package/lib/startServer.js:109:5)

[ckyleda]

The flipper documentation for pre-packaged Linux installs is extremely poor. From the readme:

yarn install
yarn flipper-server

The install command works with some finagling, but yarn flipper-server reports error Command "flipper-server" not found. - the install instructions packaged with the linux distribution are essentially non-functional.

node server.js crashes instantly with:

[flipper-server] Starting flipper server with pre-bundled UI
2024-04-07T11:53:54.182Z [FileStreamRotator] Logging to:  .../flipper-server/package/static/flipper-server-log.out
2024-04-07T11:53:54.183Z [FileStreamRotator] Rotating file:   size: 1048576
Server startup error:  TypeError: (0 , flipper_common_1.addLogTailer) is not a function
    at initializeLogger (.../flipper-server/package/lib/logger.js:47:39)
    at async start (.../flipper-server/package/lib/startServer.js:109:5)

Instead, try building from source.

https://github.com/facebook/flipper?tab=readme-ov-file#building-from-source

[xilin]

yarn start also work for pre-package linux distribution.