Launchpad is a cool website that
provide hosting services for open source projects. In order to work
in launchpad hosted project you need an SSH key and a tool for SSH
connection establishment. Such tool is not well integrated in WINDOWS
as Linux platform. Fortunately, this tool exists and they are free &
open source too :).
First step is that we need to generate an
SSH key using a tool called putty
(download
the windows installer). After installation run puttygen.exe
and click the generate button. PUTTYGEN will ask you to move your
mouse around in the blank area to generate the key. Set your key
pass-phrase. Click "Save public key" and choose a location
to save it as filename.pub. Click "Save private
key" and choose a secure location to save it as filename.ppk.
Do
not close Puttygen window just yet! Copy the public key from the
Puttygen window then go to Launchpad page for adding the public key
(the url look like https://launchpad.net/~USERNAME/+editsshkeys).
Paste your SSH key under Add
an SSH key.
Second
step
is to define certain environment variables. The first variable is
BZR_SSH=plink
as the following (pic-01)
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| pic-01: BZR_SSH=plink |
. The second variable is to modify the
PATH and to add the following line C:\Program
Files\PuTTY; which
will help Windows to locate the plink.exe program & to make it
accessible via command prompt. The third variable is to create the
ssh folder under the following path C:\Users\< username >\
by
right clicking the directory & choosing New->Folder then type
the name as '.ssh.'
to get the folder as .ssh
after that copy the public key then paste it in a text file named
id_rsa.pub and
save the file into the .ssh folder.
Third
step
is to establish the connection using Pageant. So Run Pageant aand
make sure Pageant is running and RT+click the icon in the
notification area. Add the private key you saved earlier
(filename.ppk).
This step is crucial if you want to connect to launchpad from a
Windows PC.
Now
you can use a tool like Tortoisebzr to push to Launchpad and avoid
errors like 'bzr
ERROR [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified'
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