Hi,
Lastnight as I was installing some
addons for the esmith, I ran an
install.sh script which promptly
took the initiative to first wget all the
necessary rpm files that where needed
for the particular installation. Once all
of the downloads were completed the
script began installing the rpm files in
the order in which they needed to be
installed to eliminate any dependency
errors.
I wish I could remember which contrib that
was in order to give the proper cudos to the
person who made the installation so easy.
because that was pure genioouse.
In any case, scripts like this could be used
with tar and tar.gz files as well and make
installations a breeze. The script downloads
the file, unzips it, untars it, sets any file
permissions and then runs the proper
installation commands for an install method
as easy as ms windows.
This standard would help newbees do installs
that they otherwise would not attempt including
patches that the system may need.
Now that I've gotten this far, and double checked
my hunch, the script was the sme5.6 update 4
script. I'm impressed. Good job guys.
So what do you experts think about my proposed
standard for install scripts. Or is this supposed to
be the way you do it already?
Scott