On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:51:08AM +0200, Michael Stepanov wrote:
> I just would like to know if there is a common way to access apt-get or dpkg
> from the application?
> 
> I need it to perform automatic installation several packages. Some of them
> are placed in the different repositories or can be just downloaded from the
> web. So, idea is to run a simple application which will install them without
> user interaction.

As a user, I do not like this idea.  I'd rather use a .install file
(which in OS2008 can add multiple repositories in one go).  I don't
remember if .install files can specify more than one package to install,
but it's simple to build an empty metapackage that depends on all the
packages you want.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets a little crowded.

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