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Audrey Package Installer (modified 1 times) davinci27 Profile I've been playing with the idea of building a rudimentary package installer, and I was wondering if anyone was willing to put in the extra effort to package their hacks. Here's what I was thinking. all hack, programs, mods, etc would be packaged in a archive. The archive would include all the neccessary programs and two shell scripts, instal and unistall. When a user installed a package, a installer app would extract the files execute the install script (moving files, setting permissions, etc) then move the uninstall script to a common directory. The installer app would generate a list of installed apps by browsing the list of uninstall scripts. If someone decided they wanted to remove something, the package installer would run the unistall shell script and everything would be removed. Now I'm willing to put in some effort to build the package installer and come up with a basic scheme for the scripts, but before I do I was wondering if anyone was willing to actually start packaging their hacks. davinci27 04-03-2002 18:12:33

RE:Audrey Package Installer (modified 0 times) Sketchy Profile Great idea. I will happily slap together shell scripts to install and uninstall ACID. I guess I'd need to know where ACID's files would be at the time of install script invokation. If you need it, I'd also be up for helping with your installer app, or writing scripts for other hacks whose owners have disappeared. -- Jim ACID and other Audrey apps 04-03-2002 18:34:19

RE:Audrey Package Installer (modified 0 times) jukebox Profile I'm all for it. The same what infinity proposed in his thread. I had a reason to announce the download page on my web site. I believe in choices for Audrey users and a package installer will create that. I don't see one definitive image however for all. I expect a USB storage device to be available for Audrey in a matter of months and that changes the whole picture to our advantage for a plan like this. You may want to store any new stuff on that new storage device. Certain standards have to be followed by image makers I assume, or it will not work with the installer. At this time however we're stuck with different images to serve different users by lack of storage in Audrey. In the coming 2 weeks I will give the "Audrey on steroids" and the "USB1" version a final push forward and at this time I believe that are just two examples of versions that have to coexist until the USB storage device comes available. "USB1" is my favorite, but I'm open for anything. After those two weeks I will move somewhat to the background for some time because of other obligations, but I will certainly not disappear and will continue to follow what's going on here. I'll take Audrey and 2 cf cards with me... jukebox http://www.prins.net/audrey/index.html 04-03-2002 19:45:58

RE:Audrey Package Installer (modified 0 times) jukebox Profile Hey davinci, I had about any and all apps that run on the RTP running on Audrey, including the Package Installer. I did not install anything with it, but it does run and probably will work too, assuming it adjusts automatically the paths etc to the Audrey environment. Have you tried this? jukebox http://www.prins.net/audrey/index.html 04-05-2002 15:35:26

RE:Audrey Package Installer (modified 0 times) davinci27 Profile I did think about this, but the pkg installer is abou 1.6M and does alot more than I think we need with the audrey. If we could do everything neccessary with 50K I think we'd be better off. davinci27 04-05-2002 16:04:47

RE:Audrey Package Installer (modified 0 times) stevewu99 Profile | Email Does anyone know if I can install Opera QNX on the Audrey? The Opera website (www.opera.com.qnx) say, "The QPR-file contained in the Opera installation is packed in QNX's packaging format. This package requires QNX 6.1.0 to be installed." I've downloaded the file, but I can't seem to do anything with it. Is the file an executable? How Do I run this QPR install package? On a side note, I tried to download this file in Voyager, but couldn't find where it put the file, so I ended up downloading it in windows and putting it in a shared directory. Where does Voyager stick downloaded files? Thanks, Steve 04-05-2002 17:40:06

RE:Audrey Package Installer (modified 0 times) booya Profile >I've downloaded the file, but I can't seem to do anything with it. Is the file an executable? How Do I run this QPR install package? qpr is really just a zipped tarball. type-> tar -xvzf file.qpr this will open up the .qpr file and leave you with more files .qpm and .qpk the .qpm files are XML for the QNX package installer app, you can view it with-> cat file.qpm the .qpk files are zipped tarballs again. use the same command-> tar -xvzf file.qpk this is the output for phirc.qpr tar -xvzf phirc.qpr phirc-1.0g-joher.qpk phirc-1.0g-joher.qpm phirc-1.0g-x86-joher.qpk phirc-1.0g-x86-joher.qpm tar -xvzf phirc-1.0g-joher.qpk joher/phirc/core-1.0g/MANIFEST joher/phirc/core-1.0g/usr/ joher/phirc/core-1.0g/usr/photon/ joher/phirc/core-1.0g/usr/photon/bin/ joher/phirc/core-1.0g/usr/photon/bin/phirc.db joher/phirc/core-1.0g/usr/share/ joher/phirc/core-1.0g/usr/share/audio/ joher/phirc/core-1.0g/usr/share/audio/phirc1.wav joher/phirc/core-1.0g/usr/share/audio/phirc2.wav joher/phirc/core-1.0g/usr/share/audio/phirc3.wav joher/phirc/core-1.0g/usr/share/audio/phirc4.wav joher/phirc/core-1.0g/usr/share/audio/phirc5.wav tar -xvzf phirc-1.0g-x86-joher.qpk joher/phirc/core-1.0g/x86/MANIFEST joher/phirc/core-1.0g/x86/usr/ joher/phirc/core-1.0g/x86/usr/photon/ joher/phirc/core-1.0g/x86/usr/photon/bin/ joher/phirc/core-1.0g/x86/usr/photon/bin/phirc Get help, chat, and be merry.. Join #audrey on Efnet 04-05-2002 18:00:47

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