On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 12:26 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > In some cases, you can even include just a link that people can click. > You can install, say, Transmission in Ubuntu from the browser using a > link pointing to "apt:transmission", and in OpenSUSE you can use the > one > click installer-thing > "http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/openSUSE:11.1/standard/transmission.ymp";. > The closest thing I could find for Fedora is outlined in a blog post > from Hugsie [1], but that requires a mozilla plugin apparently. >
Mint has .mint files. [1] But that doesn't solve the problem. Say yesterday Transmission just released an amazing new version that you want to try. So you click on the "Download" link. The above tools would tell you that you either have Transmission installed, already, or they will install the Transmission version in your repository -- not the one you want to try. But it's at least a workaround. > Can any kind of browser detection thing figure out the distro you're > running? Some distros have their name in the user agent string. [2] A better approach would be feature or capability detection [3] but there seems to be no proper way for the above kind of features. Best regards, Claus [1] http://linuxmint.com/software/ [2] http://user-agent-string.info/list-of-ua (scroll down) [3] http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/using-capability-detection/ -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
