Hi Fred, On 9 June 2012 01:13, Fred Niggle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ive been hunting around trying to find how to test if a users system has > xdotool at install time, and if not then to have the install process > download and install it. > Could someone please point me in the right direction on how to achive this > with Glade? > While I have Android development experience Ubuntu development with Glade > is a new step to me, so any guidance is hugely appreciated. > What do you mean at install time? At the time your own package is installed by a user? Make your package depend (via dpkg, apt, debs) on xdotool. Debian (or Ubuntu) packages can include dependencies on other packages. Probably you want to package your application in a PPA on launchpad. If you're not yet packaged the "debian way", and running a home grown installer, dpkg -l xdotool will return 0 if installed and 1 if not. sudo apt-get install xdotol will install it. The "sudo" will require administrative rights. dpkg -l xdotool 2>&1 >/dev/null || sudo apt-get install xdotool will test for xdotool and if it is not there, install it (prompting for a password). Regards, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^
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