proposed outline for installer for wxEuphoria on Linux
- Posted by Jerry_Story Nov 10, 2009
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The popularity of programs based on wxEuphoria will continue to be limited by the fact that some people have difficulty installing wxEuphoria until that problem is solved. It might seem trivial, just follow instructions, but some people have problems. People are accustomed to things like the 'Update Manager' and the 'Synaptic Package Manager'.
Please feel free to make any improvements or refinements to the following outline. This is just a first draft to get the idea started.
And feel free to write the code. I don't know if I could figure out the technical stuff to write the program. And besides, this project probably would more appropriately be done by someone on the wxEuphoria team.
- Proposed Outline of Installer For wxEuphoria on Linux -
1. Check whether a correct version (most recent version?) of wxWidgets is installed. If it is not, then install it. Installing it might be slightly different on different distros. On Ubuntu, you might use "sudo apt-get install". Maybe wget would work.
2. Check whether libwxeu.so.xx and wxeud.e are installed and whether they are installed in multiple places and whether they are the latest versions and whether there might be a conflict between versions. Delete libwxeu.so.xx and wxeud.e files in wrong or confusing locations and delete earlier versions of these files that might cause a conflict.
3. Put the latest versions of libwxeu.so.xx and wxeud.e in the correct (or best) places.
4. Do the ldd thing and all that.
5. Notify the user of all that has been done or not done.
- End of Proposed Outline -
Instead of an installer for wxEuphoria, making a .deb file and putting wxEuphoria in the Ubuntu repository would be better. But that probably won't happen for a while.
