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task #6610: Submission of local-install

Submitter:  Vegard Nossum <vnossum>
Submitted:  Sat 10 Mar 2007 03:40:54 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Sat 10 Mar 2007 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Tue 20 Mar 2007 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  Beuc Open/Closed:  Closed
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Tue 03 Apr 2007 10:40:02 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,

I approved your project.

PS: do you know about autopackage.org?

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Sat 10 Mar 2007 03:40:54 PM UTC, original submission:  

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Registration Details


  • Name: local-install
  • System Name:  local-install
  • Type: non-GNU software & documentation
  • License: GNU General Public License V2 or later





Description:

`local-install' is a program that automatically configures, compiles, and installs (in particular, GNU) source packages.

Many GNU/Linux distributions provide their own software repository software which installs site-wide software. Many times, it is hard to install software which has not been packaged to be used specifically with this package manager software because such out-of-band installations might clutter or interfere with the managed installations.

`local-install' is not a software repository, nor a package manager. It is a tool to help users install (and uninstall) packages which use the GNU autoconf/automake system to any of the user's writable directories. The typical usage scenarios are:

  • When a user wishes to install/run a program, but does not have root/administration privileges.
  • When a user wishes to install/run software that is not included in the site's software repository.


`local-install' will by default create a directory structure which looks like this:
        $HOME/local/
        $HOME/local/<path> -> ../var/pkg/<package-name>/install/<path>
        $HOME/local/var/
        $HOME/local/var/pkg
        $HOME/local/var/pkg/<package-name>
        $HOME/local/var/pkg/<package-name>/build
        $HOME/local/var/pkg/<package-name>/install
        $HOME/local/var/pkg/<package-name>/source

`local-install' is incomplete. More information can be found in the TODO file.

`local-install' is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.

The first (and latest) version of `local-install' can be downloaded from http://peltkore.net/~vegard/local-install-1.0.tar.gz


Vegard Nossum <vnossum>

 

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