Here's my new project: I want to write a little script that I can type at the terminal like this:
$ scriptname package1 [package2, ...] where scriptname is my module name and any subsequent arguments are the names of Linux packages to install. Running the script as above will create this line: sudo aptitude install package1 package2 ... It will run that line at the terminal so the package(s) will be installed. Now, the extra functionality I want to add (otherwise I would just install them normally!) is to save the package names to a text file so I can now the names of programs I've manually installed, if I ever want to check the list or remove packages. So creating the proper bash command (sudo aptitude install ...) is easy, and writing the names to a file is easy. But I have two questions: 1. First of all, does Linux keep track of the packages you manually install? If so, then I won't have to do this at all. 2. Assuming I write this, how do output the bash command to the terminal? Is there a particular module that Python uses to interact with the terminal window that I can use to send the install command to the terminal? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
