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Installing Sherpa RPA on Debian 13#

Root or sudo privileges are required to install.

1. Install .NET Core 8#

General installation instructions are available from Microsoft:

Установка .NET в Fedora - .NETlearn.microsoft.com Install PowerShell 7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) - PowerShelllearn.microsoft.com

Run in a terminal:

  • Install .NET SDK 8.0:

sudo dnf install -y dotnet-sdk-8.0

  • Install PowerShell:

sudo dnf install https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.4.2/powershell-7.4.2-1.rh.x86_64.rpm

2. Install the libgdiplus library for keyboard and mouse emulation#

Run in a terminal:

sudo dnf install libgdiplus

3. Install Tesseract#

Run in a terminal:

sudo dnf install tesseract-langpack-rus

If you plan to use Tesseract OCR or the automatic page rotation detection in the Templating tool, improve recognition quality by doing the following:

  • Download the archive:

wget https://downloads.sherparpa.ru/SherpaRPA/linux/ru/traineddata.zip -O traineddata.zip

  • Unpack it into:

sudo unzip -o traineddata.zip -d /usr/share/tesseract/tessdata

4. Install Python#

Run in a terminal:

sudo dnf install python3-devel.x86_64

5. Download and run the installer#

  • Remove the old installer version:

rm -f SherpaRPA

  • Download the latest installer:

wget https://downloads.sherparpa.ru/SherpaRPA/linux/ru/SherpaRPA -O SherpaRPA

  • Make the file executable:

chmod +x SherpaRPA

  • Run the installer:

./SherpaRPA

You can download and run the installer in a terminal with this one-liner. It combines all the commands above: rm -f SherpaRPA && wget https://downloads.sherparpa.ru/SherpaRPA/linux/ru/SherpaRPA -O SherpaRPA && chmod +x SherpaRPA && ./SherpaRPA

6. Installation #

  1. If the Robot was installed previously, you will see the following window.
  1. If installation is happening for the first time, or in the previous window you selected "Install", the installer window will appear. You can choose:
  • create a desktop shortcut,
  • create a folder in the Start menu,
  • install the Robot for the current user or for all users.
  1. After clicking "Next", choose the folder for installing the Robot:
  1. After clicking "Next", a window will show the Robot installation progress:
  1. When installation finishes, you will see a window where you can immediately launch Sherpa Designer by clicking "Run":

6.1. Install the plugin in Yandex Browser #

To work with Yandex Browser, the Robot requires the plugin:

  1. Open the browser and go to the "Extensions" section;

  2. Then open the file manager and open the folder with the installed Robot:

/home/user/sherpa-robot

  1. Go to the Chrome folder:

/home/user/sherpa-robot/Chrome

  1. Drag the plugin.crx file into the Yandex Browser window;

  2. Add the extension;

  3. Close the browser;

  4. Open a terminal window in the current folder and run:

chmod +x install_host.sh

./install_host.sh

  1. Start the browser.

If the Sherpa RPA plugin icon turns blue, the plugin was installed successfully.

You can also install the extension from the store:

Sherpa RPA Browser Automation 3.1.0 - Chrome Web Storechrome.google.com

And then complete steps 3, 4, 5.