Out of curiosity are there any thoughts about supporting 1 click install for suse 10.3 in the future?

can you name one app that actually does that?, is actually not that hard to install

Just curious…….

I have to admit how amused I am with how easy things are with the 1 click install.


ps. Installing fluxbox with one click is what spawned my curiosity of what it would be like for everything to be like that.

emerge houdini

Wren
ps. Installing fluxbox with one click is what spawned my curiosity of what it would be like for everything to be like that.

Works great, provided you are satisfied with the default settings that fluxbox provides and the installation location it decides. Might work at home, but not likely of much use in a production facility.

probbins

Wren
ps. Installing fluxbox with one click is what spawned my curiosity of what it would be like for everything to be like that.

Works great, provided you are satisfied with the default settings that fluxbox provides and the installation location it decides. Might work at home, but not likely of much use in a production facility.

Case in point:

emerge media-gfx/pixie

creates /usr/doc and /usr/shaders. There's a README file in /usr/doc and all the Pixie shaders end up in /usr/shaders, which seems a little high in the hierarchy for me.

Just a reminder that, like most things in Linux and on a command line, it's trivial to set up an alias and the installer has parameters e.g.

./houdini.install –install-toolkit –no-license –make-dir /opt/hou > /dev/null

you could alias that or even make it a little more complicated like delete the previous install first and set up links, like I do with our shop-wide installer. You can make that a button on the panel and you have your one button installer.

I'm not a fan of the “well you can roll your own” answer, but in this case it's really, really trivial and certainly not worth SESI investing time and imposing their own.

Cheers,

J.C.

Howdy! I just started here at SESI few weeks ago and a 1 click installer is one of the 1st things I asked for. I wouldn't want to impose it on anyone, of course…..just provide it.

In a gui installer you can also have a parameter dialog for doing custom install commands just like in a shell. Kind of like how grub has the ability to enter optional boot commands.


Another amusing idea that is not production useful is having houdini function like a repository in which you can just hit update!

Anyways back to reality…