yes, installshield type of program. i know this is not 100% poss. at this
stage due to the variety of installation procedures.
i suppose the program's scope could be expanded to incorporate the ability
to install .tar's (&.tar.gz), .rpm's, .deb's and .tgz's, or it could serve
as a wrapper for either a seperate procedure or a call to rpmdrake for rpms
and other utils for other packages. i was not really going for a package
manager however, more just a "linux app installer for dummies".
mostly due to my experience over at linuxnewbie.org, where many questions
are "i've downloaded ______.tar.gz, now what do i do to install?"
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From: Linux Frog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Idea for new utility
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 21:48:35 -0400
On Mon, 22 May 2000, you wrote:
> AppDrake or InstallDrake
>
> utility would take a .tar, .tar.gz, etc. uncompress it into a temp
> directory, run through the ./configure, make and make install, or
> alternatively running an install.sh or other script. even for those of
us
> who have no problem installing software, this would seem like a Good
Thing.
>
I think it's a good idea. I believe what you're looking for is similar to a
windows *.exe installation program of sorts. Maybe a shell program that you
can run and import tarballs to install?
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