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Darwinia installer

Postby Bruce42 » Wed Dec 22, 2004 10:40 am

Not a bug, but a general discussion. I am really hoping Introversion go with loki setup for the darwinia installation. It is a very nice tool, and does the job properly. I understand for the dynamically generated betas this is a pain, but hope it is done right for the full version. If required I can provide a sample installer setup, but it is really very easy.
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Postby Firewing » Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:09 pm

Um, I have to say that I do not think that is a good idea...loki is dead and the installer is problematic an many distros (e.g. gentoo, suse, Mandrake). I never got that thing to work through I am not a noob in that sort of things (but maybe the resolution is to easy to be seen by me, who knows).
I think a normally tar.bz2 File should to the trick, just like Uplink (yeah I know, there it was a zip, it was just an example)

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Postby Apage43 » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:02 pm

I've NEVER had any trouble with loki installers. They rox my sox on every distro. Mandrake, Slackware, or Debian. :)
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Postby Bruce42 » Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:27 pm

Loki setup is open, and still under development. It is THE BEST installer for third party apps under linux, and any other OS I have ever used. It works both with and without X, and I cannot see how you could possibly not like it/get it to work.
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Postby sysrq » Wed Dec 22, 2004 7:41 pm

Firewing wrote:Um, I have to say that I do not think that is a good idea...loki is dead and the installer is problematic an many distros (e.g. gentoo, suse, Mandrake). I never got that thing to work through I am not a noob in that sort of things (but maybe the resolution is to easy to be seen by me, who knows).
I think a normally tar.bz2 File should to the trick, just like Uplink (yeah I know, there it was a zip, it was just an example)

cya firewing


MegaStep is still maintaining loki_setup in fact lately there has been a lot of active development on it and they are pushing for a new release.
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Postby GeniusDex » Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:20 pm

It's still of good use, and more modern linux games use it (UT2004 does for example iirc), and it works good so i don't see why not :)
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Postby Dave2 » Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:37 pm

I know that they've at least been looking at installers (IIRC John joined the Autopackage IRC chan a few months back and asked about it, though I can't find it in my logs), so I'd imagine an installer of some sort is planned.
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Postby sysrq » Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:08 am

GeniusDex wrote:It's still of good use, and more modern linux games use it (UT2004 does for example iirc), and it works good so i don't see why not :)


However beyond the initial release its not longer being used for patches and such, at least not the loki_patch aspect of it.
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Postby dweebs0r » Sun Jan 09, 2005 7:22 am

Firewing wrote:and the installer is problematic an many distros (e.g. gentoo, suse, Mandrake


I'm using Gentoo and have yet to have a problem with Loki's installer.

Works great, and it's the best installer available atm.

Why re-invent the wheel with new code, when this is already available and works fine.

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Postby Trust » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:11 pm

Biggest problem I've had with linux software, lack of a decent installer :(

Loki sounds pretty good though, with the X and no-X installation. Get's my vote, whatever that's worth O_o
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Postby Bruce42 » Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:45 am

I would really like an official word on this, I am happy to help if wanted.
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Postby sysrq » Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:39 am

Autopackage is looking like a better and better option. Recently even gaim started distributing autopackage installers for thier software.
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Postby lemonade » Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:54 am

SysRq wrote:Autopackage is looking like a better and better option. Recently even gaim started distributing autopackage installers for thier software.


For me it looks just same what installer it comes with. Only what I want is it just to work with my and others system well.
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Postby Bruce42 » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:08 am

SysRq wrote:Autopackage is looking like a better and better option. Recently even gaim started distributing autopackage installers for thier software.

Just what we need, another package with 2^16 'Next' buttons.
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Postby Dave2 » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:11 am

Uh... do you even know Autopackage's goals? They're trying to minimise the amount of user input needed - most packages don't have ANY user interaction by default.

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