<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/30/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marius Gedminas</b> <<a href="mailto:marius@pov.lt">marius@pov.lt</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:51:08AM +0200, Michael Stepanov wrote:<br>> I just would like to know if there is a common way to access apt-get or dpkg<br>> from the application?<br>><br>> I need it to perform automatic installation several packages. Some of them<br>
> are placed in the different repositories or can be just downloaded from the<br>> web. So, idea is to run a simple application which will install them without<br>> user interaction.<br><br>As a user, I do not like this idea. I'd rather use a .install file<br>
(which in OS2008 can add multiple repositories in one go). I don't<br>remember if .install files can specify more than one package to install,<br>but it's simple to build an empty metapackage that depends on all the<br>
packages you want.</blockquote><div><br>I'd like to notice that my application is supposed to use under OS2006, OS 2007 and modern OS2008. As I know .install file under OS2006 has big limitations. So, probably it isn't solution.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Marius Gedminas<br>--<br>When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets a little crowded.<br>
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