2009/11/11 Jeremy Nicoll - roinfo <[email protected]>: > Ollie Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't think it's as simple as that. Part of the installation is >> installing the ROM images in the right place but they can't be >> included in the distribution so it really depends on how and where the >> user has got them from. > > ?? I said nothing about rom images. The OP said he'd mistyped:
I know, I was just thinking for a simple installation you don't really want to make the user go off and find ROM images and then copy them somewhere inside rpcemu. Then again that's what the Spoon edition does in Windows. > sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion liballegro4.2 > liballegro4.2-dev liballegro4.2-plugin-jack unzip wget > > Surely that could go into a one-line script? Probably, except that most stages in the installation instructions involve you checking it worked. I guess the script could test things and stop if it hadn't worked but then you're half way through a script without knowing what it's already done. At least with the manual instructions you can post to a newsgroup or mailing list: I've done A and that worked, then B and that worked, then C and I got this error message. HELP! I don't know though, if people are just blindly typing stuff from the instructions without actually reading the results or checking it's worked there may as well be a script. It's just not the Linux way. You either do it in a package or do it manually, preferably with some compilation. :-) > One reason for doing so would be that if & when the versions of each of > those packages or libraries or whatever they are change - which I'd expect > the people who design rpcemu would know, they could change the script as > well. Well, I guess that would be nice if there's someone willing to do it. That someone's not me (I'm perfectly happy doing the CLI dance). It's presumably not you either. Who are you tasking with this? And are you sure they're willing? :-) Cheers, Ollie _______________________________________________ Rpcemu mailing list [email protected] http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu
