Linux .deb installers?
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Hey,
Is is possible to take the downloaded code for Houdini and make a .deb package installer out of it? Manual installation is a bear.
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- Wren
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All they really need to offer is an .rpm which would cover RH/SUSE… and all the Deb/Buntu people can use Alien to convert it to .deb.
Thats what autodesk does with maya… double click install!
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- varomix
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Hi
I don't see this as a hard process is actually very simple
although a GUI would be very nice and I don't think that's hard to do
anyway, you gotta love the terminal
that's what make's linux guys seem like big geeks
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- Alanw
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You can pass arguments to the install script to make it “single click” if you want. Just type ./houdini.install –help
It's a lot of arguments to pass, but the handy thing is you can always make an alias out of it.