Paul Nicholls wrote: > > http://www.franzone.com/2008/08/14/how-to-create-a-bash-install-script/
Thanks Paul. I guess the author of that website didn't know about Makeself, which automates the exact same procedure he does manually. Either way, that seems to be the popular way of distributing applications in a distro independent manner. The installer I'm working on will probably start as a script, unpack itself and then figure out if it should run the Console setup or the GUI setup - depending if X11 is available and running. This will also allow me to pick the correct setup for the architecture (32bit or 64bit install, *BSD or Linux binary etc). So far my GUI setup is looking pretty neat and is completely configurable at runtime using a setup.xml file. Later I'll create a "install builder" which will generate that setup.xml file for the user/developer. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
