Ansible Role: sweet_home_3d

Installs or uninstalls Sweet Home 3D - a free interior design application that helps you draw the plan of your house, arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D. Creates or removes XDG desktop file to launch the application.

Requirements

• A recent version of Ansible. Tested on 2.9. It might work on previous versions.
• Fedora 31. It might work on other versions.
• Access to an archive of Sweet Home 3D release. Either URL to download or path to a file.
• Packages desktop-file-utils and rsync installed or role installs them from configured repositories which might connect to internet.

Role Variables

All variables which can be overridden are stored in defaults/main.yml file and listed in the table bellow as well.

Name	Default Value	Description
sweet_home_3d_archive_src	""	Path to an release archive of Sweet Home 3D on a control host or URL to download the archive from.
sweet_home_3d_state	present	By default installs the program. Set to "absent" to uninstall.
sweet_home_3d_top_dest_name_override	SweetHome3D	Base name of installation directory and name part of a desktop file. If set to empty, top level of release archive is used instead.
sweet_home_3d_install_parent_dir	/opt	Parent directory in which program will be installed. See also sweet_home_3d_top_dest_name_override.
sweet_home_3d_desktop_parent_dir	/usr/local/share/applications	Parent directory in which desktop file will be installed. See also sweet_home_3d_top_dest_name_override.
sweet_home_3d_force_remove	no	If set to "yes", contents of installation directory and desktop file are not compared against contents of sweet_home_3d_archive_src when uninstall, upgrade or downgrade.

Example Playbook

Install

To install the program, define URL to download Sweet Home 3D release archive from the internet. The easiest way is to use latest URL:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: scrool.sweet_home_3d
      vars:
        sweet_home_3d_archive_src: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/files/latest/download

There is a caveat in this approach - upgrade won't work automatically.

Use of the URL might end up on a mirror which download speed is rather slow. It could take couple of minutes to download the archive and ansible playbook might timeout on receiving data.

Uninstall

To uninstall, set same values as for install. By default role removes content only if installed directory and desktop file matches what it would install. Finally set state variable to "absent".

Here as an example sweet_home_3d_archive_src points to an archive downloaded on the control machine.

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: scrool.sweet_home_3d
      vars:
        sweet_home_3d_archive_src: /tmp/SweetHome3D-6.3-linux-x64.tgz
        sweet_home_3d_state: absent

Alternatively you can enable option sweet_home_3d_force_remove and again set state variable to "absent". In this case role won't need nor even check sweet_home_3d_archive_src. This effectively removes installation dir and desktop entry file. Example:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: scrool.sweet_home_3d
      vars:
        sweet_home_3d_state: absent
        sweet_home_3d_force_remove: yes

Upgrade or downgrade

To upgrade or downgrade you could start with uninstall first and then install new version. See corresponding sections above.

Alternatively you can enable force remove and set state variable to present which will effectively ensure application is always installed from the archive. Example together with the URL to the latest release:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: scrool.sweet_home_3d
      vars:
        sweet_home_3d_archive_src: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sweethome3d/files/latest/download
        sweet_home_3d_force_remove: yes

License

This project is licensed under MIT License. See LICENSE for more details.

Author Information

• Pavol Babinčák