On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > On Sep 4, Todd O'Bryan wrote: >> >> After the script finishes, >> >> $ gksudo gedit /etc/environment >> >> and add /opt/plt/bin to the PATH variable defined there. Separate it >> from the other paths with a colon. >> >> When you log out and log back in, you should be able to type >> drracket or any other plt command in a terminal and have it >> work. [...] > > Note that a better solution for this (which the sh-installer can do) > is to drop symlinks to the Racket executables in some central place > like "/usr/bin" -- which will make everything work without editing > "/etc/environment" file. > I purposely avoid changing things in /usr, but that's just a personal preference. When I upgrade, I make copies of /opt and /etc and know that anything not in there I can leave to the package management system.
> More notes on your script: > > * You can run "sh the-installer-file.sh" instead of chmodding it. > Good point! > * The installer script is simple enough that you can pipe the expected > responses into it, instead of using expect. But if you're already > using expect, you might as well check the text of the prompts so it > won't break if our installer asks a new question. > Yeah. I tried this originally and had trouble. That's why it currently just checks for "> ". I'll see about updating if it causes problems. > * You're intentionally using a name with a version number -- which > might not always be a good idea. (Our installers use a versioned > name only for the nightly builds for a reason...) Specifically, > you're always creating an "/opt/plt" symlink to the directory that > was just installed -- which means that installing a stable release > and then a nightly build leaves this pointing at the nightly build. > Another good point. I guess the take-home message is to make sure that /opt/plt points to the version you want to use on a regular basis and use the full path for any other versions you might want installed as well. Thanks for taking the time to look at it. Now I wish I just knew enough to make a proper .deb package. :-/ Todd _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
