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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Installer GUI Post 302440397 by fatfingerjoe on Tuesday 27th of July 2010 05:43:45 AM
Old 07-27-2010
Shell Installer GUI

Hey guys,

I just can't seem to find any hints on this topic (or maybe I just don't find the correct search terms to use Smilie ).

My company developed an application which requires harsh configuration to run it on a server. So I wrote a LOT of shell scripts which take care of the installation routine. Unfortunately these scripts are not very fail safe and the possibility of letting the user interact with the installation (which in some cases is required) is very limited. So here is my question:

Is there any easy way (a tool) to create a "GUI" for shell based installations? Something like the NVIDIA or ATI graphics card driver installation routine for example. What I basically need is the ability to let the user enter certain configuration parameters (e.g. hostname, ports etc), maybe a yes/no select, a dropdown, progress bar etc.

Something that let's me create installers like this would be awesome:
Image

I wouldn't mind if this only works on certain linux systems (My main target system is openSuSE Linux 11.3).

If there is not tool for that could someone of you point me to a good tutorial on how to write that type of installers in shell?

Thanks in advance for any hints.

Cheers

Patrick
 

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FAXSETUP(8)                                                   System Manager's Manual                                                  FAXSETUP(8)

NAME
faxsetup - setup a machine for use with HylaFAX SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/faxsetup [ -client ] [ -server ] [ -with-VAR[=value] ] DESCRIPTION
faxsetup is an interactive shell script that does the necessary setup work to configure a client or server machine for the HylaFAX soft- ware. faxsetup must be run on every HylaFAX server machine before the software will function-if a HylaFAX server program or script is invoked before faxsetup is run, the command will abort with a message that says to run faxsetup. faxsetup may optionally be run on a HylaFAX client machine to verify the configuration of the software. By default faxsetup checks a machine for use both as a HylaFAX client and server. Client-specific checks include: o the installation of client programs and data, o the installation of the Adobe Font Metric (AFM) information files used by the HylaFAX text formatting support. Server-specific checks include: o the installation of server programs and data, o the existence of the UUCP lock file directory, o the installation of the TIFF software tools, o the configuration of the getty programs invoked for data and voice calls, o the pathnames for various system programs used by server shell scripts, o proper support for FIFO special files, o proper installation of a POSTSCRIPT RIP, o definition of a ``fax'' user, o definitions for the ``hylafax'' and ``snpp'' services, o startup of the HylaFAX server processes: faxq(8) and hfaxd(8), o definition of a ``FaxMaster'' mail alias for reporting server problems. For server machines faxsetup also creates two files that are required by the HylaFAX command scripts. One file contains master configura- tion parameters and the other contains various definitions used by scripts such as faxaddmodem(8) that communicate with modems. OPTIONS
-client Do client-specific consistency checks. -server Do server-specific consistency checks. -with-VAR[=value] Override the default definition for the configuration parameter named VAR; optionally specifying a new value (if no value is specified then ``yes'' is used). This option is especially useful to override the default settings for the POSTSCRIPT inter- preter package to use (e.g. ``-with-PS=dps''), the spooling directory (``-with-DIR_SPOOL=/mumble''), the directory where the tool applications of TIFF software distribution are located (``-with-TIFFBIN=/usr/freeware''), etc. A complete list of the possible parameters can be found by looking at the contents of the faxsetup shell script; many of these configuration parameters are also described in the online documentation -help Print a help message and terminate. -quiet Do not print verbose messages to the terminal. -verbose Print informative messages to the terminal (default). BUGS
faxsetup does not query a modem to find out its capabilities when invoking the faxmodem program to setup a server in a send-only configura- tion; it may be necessary to run faxmodem manually. FILES
/var/spool/hylafax/etc/setup.cache master configuration parameters /var/spool/hylafax/etc/setup.modem modem-related configuration support Consult hylafax-server(5) for a complete discussion of the structure and content of the spooling area. SEE ALSO
hylafax-server(5), hylafax-config(5), faxq(8), faxgetty(8), faxmodem(8), faxconfig(8), faxsend(8) August 26, 1996 FAXSETUP(8)
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