On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:11 PM, satyaakam goswami <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On 01/04/2011 03:48 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 02:13 -0800, Abhi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Like if I want to install gedit and nmap on my linux system, then the
>>>> script can download the packages from internet and install it on my
>>>> linux system by just opening the script.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  yum and apt-get do this afaik.
>>>
>>
>> That's not the solution. He wants to make one such script I guess?
>>
>> what makes you think so ?
>
> Here is something which can be done  http://bit.ly/IfzU0 using Yum , i am
> sure there must be similar  option in apt-get too , you can incorporate
> these command in a script and once you have downloaded , run install command
> from a script .
>
> also you can try wget to download the package then give install commands in
> a script , but in this case you will have to take of all the dependencies
> yourself .
>
> i do not know why you want to do this ? there are distibutions like Gentoo
> where packages are always built from the sources all the time.
>
> hth
> -Satya
> satyaakam.net
>
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>

I want to install a list of packages using a script.

This does the thing:

#!/bin/bash

tar -zxvf X.tar.gz
cd X
./configure
make
make install

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