@Ehsanul many thanks to also to those who helped.
@_why would my suggestion of a separate ''make'' program for linux be hard to do? I'm lazy and like things easy :) for when it comes time to produce a distribution file to a user. Had a look at autopackage http://www.autopackage.org/ that was mentioned by another member back in 2008, looked promising from the short time I read it. Dave. On Tuesday 26 May 2009 08:49:59 pm Ehsanul Hoque wrote: > Well, I'm no sysadmin, quite a linux noob myself, but I think you can get > away with having shoes extracted on other partitions and installing there. > But that won't help you for fresh installs of linux I guess, you would have > to either reinstall again or do some configuration stuff with your bash and > all that (just reinstall really if you don't know how to do this). You > would need to install dependancies again anyways, so with fresh linux > installs, you're best off just reinstalling shoes. > > Just extract, and check the readme. Make sure you install all the > dependencies (listed in the readme) and just follow the instructions. > > Subject: Re: best way to get a RUN file for my app like shoes2.run > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:42:04 +1200 > > > > Is there a particular place you put the extracted files ? > > > Reason is from time to time I do a fresh install of a new version of linux > (running Kubuntu 9.04 at present but thinking of trying Mehpis) > > > I have a number of partitions that i don't destroy and thought i could > extract the source code in there and _all_ will be well or is this bad, > wrong, thinking. > > > I usually stay within the system repo's so never really built from source > code. > > > Your guidance on this would be great. > > > Dave. > > On Tuesday 26 May 2009 07:04:36 pm Ehsanul Hoque wrote: > > I see the issue. You haven't installed shoes really, you're just using > > the > > > > .run file that lets you start using shoes quickly. I'm running on linux > > too > > > > btw, so this is not like a windows thing or something, it's just what you > > > > get when you install shoes. What you need to do on linux to install is > > > > build from source basically. Download the source tarball (which is the > > last > > > > link on this page: http://shoooes.net/downloads/) and then follow the > > > > instructions in the readme after unzipping to install it. Once you do > > that, > > > > the $ shoes -p command will become available to you, and you'll also be > > > > able to run shoes scripts from the command line like $ shoes > > myshoesapp.rb > > > > > > > > I had the same issue in not realizing I had to install using the source, > > > > wish it was pointed out to me so I hadn't wasted the time I did trying to > > > > figure it out. Hopefully, this solves your issues. Just install from > > source > > > > and then run the command "shoes -p" to get the GUI going, and rest is > > > > self-explanatory. Just hope it works for you. > > > > > > > > -Ehsan > > *** lots cut*** > > _________________________________________________________________ > Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. > http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutor >ial_QuickAdd1_052009
