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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Installing Commercial Linux Programs Post 302521865 by BrandonShw on Thursday 12th of May 2011 01:18:15 PM

05-12-2011

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Thank you for considering my question. First of all, I know who my clients will be and many of them will not be or have anything like system administrators. Many of them will be able to run a script and follow simple instructions, but do little else. The script + instructions is going to have to be as close to foolproof as possible.

My current experiment at writing an install script is simply a shell script and nothing else, because I have heard of package manager scripts, but don't know anything about them (yet). Since I am linking in libraries at compile time, I will have to have some method of automatically downloading these things accross a variety of Linux flavors.

At this point, the responses are a little over my head. It sounds from one of the responses like I could create a script of the .src.rpm type, which I could Google and learn about if it is a good idea. What I am trying to find out is whether I should continue with my shell script and within it make calls to Yum or Apt to install the required libraries, or whether a shell script is basically the wrong way to go. If I did use a package manager script, or some other type of script, where would I go to learn how to do it?

I am just an applications developer and Linux installation is a mystery to me.

Thanks again.

Brandon

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ubuntu-dev-tools

ubuntu-dev-tools(5)						File Formats Manual					       ubuntu-dev-tools(5)

NAME

       ubuntu-dev-tools - Configuration for the ubuntu-dev-tools package.

DESCRIPTION

       The  ubuntu-dev-tools  package  is  similar in scope to the devscripts(1) package, providing a collection of scripts which may be of use to
       Ubuntu and Debian developers or others wishing to build Debian packages.

       Some of these scripts have options which may be configured  on  a  system-wide  and  per-user  basis.   These  options  are  configured	in
       devscripts.conf(5).

       All variables are described in the script's manpages. Package-wide variables begin with "UBUNTUTOOLS" and are listed below.

       Every script which reads the configuration files can be forced to ignore them by using the --no-conf command-line option.

ENVIRONMENT

       All ubuntu-dev-tools configuration variables can be set (and overridden) by setting them in the environment (unlike devscripts).

       In addition, several scripts use the following environment variables:

       UBUMAIL
	      Overrides  DEBEMAIL  and	DEBFULLNAME  when  the	target	is  clearly  Ubuntu.   Can  either  contain an e-mail address or Full Name
	      <email@example.org>.

       DEBEMAIL, DEBFULLNAME
	      As in devscripts(1).

PACKAGE-WIDE VARIABLES
       The currently recognised package-wide variables are:

       UBUNTUTOOLS_BUILDER
	      This specifies the preferred test-builder, one of pbuilder (default), sbuild, pbuilder-dist.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_DEBIAN_MIRROR
	      The preferred Debian archive mirror.  Should be of the form http://ftp.debian.org/debian (no trailing slash).  If not specified, the
	      master will be used.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_DEBSEC_MIRROR
	      The  preferred Debian security archive mirror.  Should be of the form http://security.debian.org (no trailing slash).  If not speci-
	      fied, the master will be used.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_UBUNTU_MIRROR
	      The preferred Ubuntu archive mirror.  Should be of the form http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu (no trailing slash).  If not specified,
	      the master will be used.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_UBUNTU_PORTS_MIRROR
	      The preferred Ubuntu archive mirror.  Should be of the form http://ports.ubuntu.com (no trailing slash).	If not specified, the mas-
	      ter will be used.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_LPINSTANCE
	      The launchpad instance to communicate with. e.g. production (default) or staging.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_MIRROR_FALLBACK
	      Whether or not to fall-back to the master archive mirror.  This is usually the desired behaviour, as mirrors can	lag  the  masters.
	      If on a private network with only a local mirror, you may want to set this to no.  One of yes (default) or no.

       UBUNTUTOOLS_UPDATE_BUILDER
	      Whether or not to update the test-builder before each test build.  One of yes or no (default).

       UBUNTUTOOLS_WORKDIR
	      The directory to use for preparing source packages etc.  When unset, defaults to a directory in /tmp/ named after the script.

SEE ALSO

       devscripts(1), devscripts.conf(5)

AUTHORS

       This manpage was written by Stefano Rivera <stefanor@ubuntu.com>.

ubuntu-dev-tools						 December 19 2010					       ubuntu-dev-tools(5)