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andrewd18 / df-lnp-installer

An installation script for the Dwarf Fortress Lazy Newb Pack, for Linux.
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Recommend dependencies install syntax in the script failure errors? #43

Closed tchalvak closed 10 years ago

tchalvak commented 10 years ago

Error on ubuntu:

./df-lnp-installer.sh Checking for dependencies...

df-lnp-installer.sh: Your computer is missing the following programs or libraries: unrar hg libQtCore libQtGui libQtNetwork libQtScript qmake_qt4 libOpenAL1(32-bit) libGTK-x11(32-bit) libJPEG62(32-bit) . Install them using your distribution's package manager or use --skip-deps to override. Exiting.

Perhaps it would make sense to just reference the dependency install command listed in the readme with a switch for the OS versions?

E.g. "You may try installing these on debian/ubuntu with: sudo apt-get blahblahblah" on dependency fail...

andrewd18 commented 10 years ago

Because not everyone uses Ubuntu or Debian, I cannot recommend a specific set of commands for a user to run. The script says to use your package manager, and that should be generic enough.