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RE: [ECS] ECS/LINUX installation procedure ? Rob Sun, 11 Jun 2000 18:33:44 -0600

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I think RPM is the only way to go. It handles all of the details, like
library dependencies, overwriting files, etc.

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Ingo Pakleppa [mailto:ipakleppa@home.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 5:36 PM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com; Jeff Anderson; Rob Hicks; ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: Re: [ECS] ECS/LINUX installation procedure ?


As Martin suggested, this is often done with a shell script. You can
further improve this by shipping ECS/LINUX in RPM format (RPM=RedHat
Package Manager) and/or in Debian's package format (not sure what that is
called). Most Linux available now use RPM.

With this format, installing new software is essentially little more than a
double-click.

Ingo

At 11:24 AM 6/11/00 -0400, Mark Gilmore wrote:
>If anyone has any suggestions on how I should handle
>the installation of ECS/LINUX, please let me know.
>I could:
>         1) Write a LINUX pgm to do it.
>         2) Find a LINUX pgm similar to INSTALLSHIELD.
>         3) Just use PKZIP: The problem with this is that
>            I can't have it overwrite ONLY certain files
>            (at least I don't think I can).
>         4) Other ??? (there may be a conventional approach
>            that I don't know about).
>Thanks,
>--
>Mark Gilmore
>Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
>http://www.usit.com/omnip
>423-745-0026
>Hours: Mon-Sat, 9AM-8PM/EST

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