Open bgse opened 8 years ago
Thanks for this. I will start working on it once my exams get over. Also, I was looking to extend this to a host of other applications.
PS: Do you by chance have knowledge of any program for Linux (mainly Ubuntu) that allows me to download and install packages meuldntioned in a list. I usually tend to mess up my Ubuntu installation and would like to have a program that sets up my new installation perfectly by reading the packages to be installed from a text file?
Not sure if there is a special program for this purpose, but what you can do is read the list of packages from a text file into a variable, say $mypkgs so that it contains something like 'pkg1 pkg2 pkg3', and then have the package manager install from that variable.
For Ubuntu, that should then be something like
apt-get install $mypkgs
@bgse I have just started work on this. Just thought I should let you know.
Something you might consider for the Linux installation process is checking if there are known repos for the users distribution.
At least for Fedora, there is already a COPR, and I suspect there should be more cropping up for other distros as well given some time.
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/229
Could prompt the user if they want to install using the repo instead and do it automatically, or just print instructions.