Add support for non-default XDG user dir in an install script for the Linux #767
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According to the https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories and https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/, Linux users can customize their "user directories" to be in a different paths than the default
~/Downloads
etc. However, the install script hardcoded this path so far, which caused a failure for such users, e.g.This PR is supposed to fix that.
In case the fallback hardcoded path is used, there will be an error message written to the
STDERR
:This is the default error message that
bash
shows in case it cannot find a specific command, I think it's clear enough not to require implementing any custom handling. Let me know if you agree or not 🙂