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Install and create a robo3t ubuntu desktop entry

Download and install the robo3t:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://download.robomongo.org/1.1.1/linux/robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0.tar.gz
$ sudo tar -zxvf robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0.tar.gz -C /opt
$ sudo ln -s /opt/robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0/bin/robo3t /usr/bin/robo3t
$ rm robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0.tar.gz

Create ubuntu desktop entry:

$ sudo wget -O /opt/robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0/robo3t.png https://robomongo.org/static/robomongo-128x128-129df2f1.png
$ sudo sh -c "echo '[Desktop Entry]\nEncoding=UTF-8\nType=Application\nName=Robo3T\nIcon=/opt/robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0/robo3t.png\nExec=\"/opt/robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0/bin/robo3t\"\nComment=Robo3t desktop entry\nCategories=Development;\nTerminal=false\nStartupNotify=true' > /usr/share/applications/robo3t.desktop"

If you got the following error:

This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
in "".

Available platform plugins are: xcb.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Run the following command:

$ sudo rm /opt/robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0/lib/libstdc++*
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