[maemo-developers] Access to apt-get or dpkg from the application

[From: Michael Stepanov]

On 1/30/08, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:51:08AM +0200, Michael Stepanov wrote:
> > I just would like to know if there is a common way to access apt-get or
> dpkg
> > from the application?
> >
> > I need it to perform automatic installation several packages. Some of
> them
> > are placed in the different repositories or can be just downloaded from
> the
> > web. So, idea is to run a simple application which will install them
> without
> > user interaction.
>
> As a user, I do not like this idea.  I'd rather use a .install file
> (which in OS2008 can add multiple repositories in one go).  I don't
> remember if .install files can specify more than one package to install,
> but it's simple to build an empty metapackage that depends on all the
> packages you want.


I agree with you, Marius. But for example, if you installed Internet
Communication Tool from Nokia you saw that it has a simple installer, which
should be run and it install all packages, displays license etc.

Could you give me some example of creation of metapackge, please?

Marius Gedminas
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Cheers,
Michael
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