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In which directory should a node.js program be installed?
I'm contributing to an open source node.js project. The installation script for the project works by cloning the git repo to /home/ProjectName as root and running the node.js script from there. There ...
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Producing 'installers' on Linux [closed]
can you help me with
best practices or things that i should keep in mind while we produce an 'installer' for my software (Java based)?
what are the steps or phases in which this should be done?
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How to package a Bash program for installation in Linux
I have a program written completely in Bash, which includes the main script, a set of modules called by the main script, a config file, a lib file, etc.
Since nothing needs to be compiled, what's the ...
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Is there .sh installer (software archive is append to .sh flat text file) generating tools for unix?
There is a lot of software which is released as shell installers, for example:
Netbeans
Mathematica
Bazel (it also provide deb and tar.gz, but .sh is popular)
Nvidia Graphics Driver
and so on.
This ...
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How do I get my app to appear in the Applications list?
I have created a .deb package that copies files to the /opt/MyAppName directory. However, it does not appear in the Applications list, and I am unsure how to make that happen.
How do I make my app ...
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What is Open Build Studio and how does it work? [closed]
I'm just curious to know what is Open Build Studio. The website says it's got 43,959 projects, with 363,784 packages, in 67,556 repositories. Judging by those numbers, does it mean that OpenSUSE has ...
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How to package (where to install) a stand-alone software bundle
Consider some application that is intended to be built in its destination directory and whose subdirectory structure does not respect Linux conventions. Assume in particular that there is no install ...
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How to create *.run./*.bin file in Debian based distros
AMD distributes the Catalyst drivers as a *.run file that when ran extracts itself, builds and then installs the driver. Thing is the driver needs a patch for it to build successfully. I want to apply ...
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Package file without .rpm or .tar.gz... What to do?
I'm busy installing ELK package on a few RHEL6 servers, but we have two mail servers which are still RHEL5 i386 servers.
So I go to https://www.elastic.co/downloads/logstash and downloaded the Linux ...
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Where to install mininet [duplicate]
I read some posts and parts of FHS to understand which directory I should install packages in. As far as I could understand /opt is for independent packages and /usr/local is for packages that are not ...
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How to package software in Funtoo/Gentoo?
I am new in Funtoo/Gentoo. Where do I start learning how to create my own "packages"?
For example, I have done the following to get the source code of Bespin, a Style for Qt4, derived from the Style ...
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How do idiomatic Unix programs detect what prefix they are installed under?
If I install a binary with non-standard prefix, e.g. /opt/bin/foo, which needs some static files from /opt/share/foo, how does it find them? Using back references relative to the executable (../share/...
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What installer types should commercial software use to support Linux?
The source code in not open or free, so compilation at installation is not an option. So far I have seen developers that:
provide a tar.gz file and it is up to user to uncompress in suitable location....
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