At some point, the gnome-system-tools package did this in the time-admin application for ntp. I can't confirm if it still works the same way, since the UI appears to have changed in feisty, but I would assume so. You should try it with a fresh image of feisty, open time-admin (try to set the time, basically) and tell it to use ntp, it should automatically try to install it. I suggest grabbing the source package and figuring out how they did it. You could also look into the update manager or the app installer in Ubuntu, they both appear to launch Synaptic or something to perform installs for them.
On 5/27/07, John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, I have a PyGTK-based program that has an optional dependency on the package python-matplotlib. Is there any way under Debian (and hopefully also Ubuntu) that I can trigger gtk-debi or something like that when the user requests to use the part of my program that depends on stuff they haven't installed yet? What would be the best way of doing that from python, if such a thing exists? I believe I have seen this used somewhere but I don't know how it was done. Cheers JP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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