Hi All,

Just wondering if anyone her knew how to write an installation script in linux? I'm using Red Hat 9 and I basically want to unzip a couple of tar.gz files, then ./configure them then make and make install them... anyone know how to write a script to automate this?

Thanks!

 

run a jscript? you can execute shell commands through it (though not entirely sure if you can run it on linux)

 

There are a bunch of ways to do this, since you didn't really say why you are writing a script and not just doing it in the command line, here's the easiest way to do it...

1) Just create a new file and edit it using your favorite editor
2) Enter the commands the same way you would do them on the command line - i.e.
tar -zxvf blah-1.0.tar.gz
cd blah-1.0
./configure
make
make install
cd ..
3) save the file
4) chmod +x file
5) ./file

That should do it...

 

best way to automate the configure is like this
./configure && make && make installl

if any of them fail it will exit.

Pretty basic question you just asked, pickup a book on shell programming.

 

 

Thanks All,

I'm really new to linux, etc... I did a search on the internet and couldn't find anything. Any recommendations on a good book?