Please change file and directory names with spaces in it (such as "Super Productivty") to spaceless ("SuperProductivity")

[freedio]

I had troubles running the last (which was also my first) update of SuperProductivity built from sources on my Ubuntu Linux box:

$ superproductivity 
LaunchProcess: failed to execvp:
/opt/Super
[6986:1221/114546.354549:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(207)] Check failed: . : Invalid argument (22)
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

↑ You can see on the third line above that the directory name was cut off at the space, and so the software couldn't be found anymore.

When I changed the directory to SuperProductivity and adjusted the link in /etc/alternatives, everything started working fine (except the Sync complained about an old profile).

You could maybe also fix this by inserting a backslash before the space, or by quoting the whole path, but I recommend to just eliminate the space, because it's non-standard and absolutely not necessary (I would write superproductivity exacly like that, or with a dash, which would also work with a file name.

[github-actions]

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[johannesjo]

How are you building the app? There are not really any folders that have a space in them. Possibly they're getting created when building with electron builder, but then there is not much we can do about it.

[freedio]

The process was a bit messy, but I used npm only (npm install, npm run build, npm run package, npm run localInstall), and I don't remember which command eventually installed the software in /opt/Super Productivity, but from lastModified, it is clear that the old version was overwritten. It was unbeknownst to me in the beginning that the binary is actually called via /usr/bin/superrproductivity → /etc/alternatives/productivity → /opt/Super Productivity/superproductivity.

Btw, the old version was probably installed through a .deb-Package, but I didn't find a .deb-Package for the new version, so I decided to do it the hard way, because I banned snap from my system for various reasons.