Simple script for multiple unity installs

I hope this kind of post is allowed here. Essentially, I developed a simple script to help with multiple unity installs that I figured might help some people out. I am running Ubuntu 16.10, but i imagine itll work with other distros.

To install, do the following:
- Place the script inside /bin (or wherever you keep your custom scripts)
- name the script unity-editor (or whatever you want to call it)
- Or just: sudo nano /bin/unity-editor then paste it in and save
- run command: sudo chmod +x /bin/unity-editor
- Install unity versions via the installation scripts to /opt
- Ensure the unity install folder is named similar to Unity-*Version*. Example: Unity-5.6.1.

Now, you can execute the script by running: unity-editor *version*. So, if you have Unity-5.6.1, you will run: unity-editor 5.6.1. If you run without a version set, it will list out all version you have available on your machine.


My environment is:

Code (CSharp):

1. retrozelda:Desktop$ cd /opt
2. retrozelda:opt$ ls
3. click.ubuntu.com  perforce  Unity-2017.1.0  Unity-5.5.2  Unity-5.6.1  zoom
4. retrozelda:opt$ unity-editor
5. Available Versions:
6. 2017.1.0
7. 5.5.2
8. 5.6.1
9. retrozelda:opt$ unity-editor 5.6.1
10. Launching Unity Unity version 5.6.1 at path /opt/Unity-5.6.1/Editor/Unity
11. retrozelda:opt$
12.  

and here is the script

Code (CSharp):

1. #!/bin/bash
2.  
3. UNITY_VERSION=$1
4. if [ -z "${UNITY_VERSION}" ]
5. then
6.     echo "Available Versions:"
7.     ls /opt |grep Unity | grep -o '[^Unity-]*'
8.     exit
9. fi
10.  
11. UNITY_EXECUTION="/opt/Unity-${UNITY_VERSION}/Editor/Unity"
12. if [ -x "${UNITY_EXECUTION}" ]
13. then
14.  
15.     echo "Launching Unity Unity version ${UNITY_VERSION} at path ${UNITY_EXECUTION}"
16.     exec "${UNITY_EXECUTION}" &
17.     exit
18. fi
19.  
20. echo "Cannot find Unity version ${UNITY_VERSION} at path ${UNITY_EXECUTION} or version isnt executable"
21.  

I hope you enjoy

 

@RetroZelda, I hope this kind of answer is allowed here

We developed u3d to download/install/run unity from the command line, and it supports Linux. Maybe you will find it interesting

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/u...stall-run-unity-from-the-command-line.491808/
https://github.com/DragonBox/u3d

 

Hi , i have a question about how to install multi unity linux editor . My os is ubuntu 16.0.4, and install unity by .deb package, the installed unity is located in /opt/Unity (do not contains version),so when i want to install another unity eidtor version,the previous version is overrided. So how do you install different unity version on ubuntu?