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Posted November 17, 2016
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Eitot: It’s in a comment in the header. They use to create self-extracting compressed archives that appear as a shell script to the user, the GUI for the installation is handled by [url=https://icculus.org/mojosetup/]MojoSetup.
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Magmarock: Could you use this to make installers for programs from the repository?
You'd be better off either a) downloading the packages for your distro or b) making the packages yourself according to whatever methods of package building your distro uses.
Posted November 17, 2016
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Eitot: What is it that you don’t like about ‘repositories’? The use of the command prompt? The management of dependencies? The inflexibility of the installation?
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Magmarock: All of the above.
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JudasIscariot: You'd be better off either a) downloading the packages for your distro or b) making the packages yourself according to whatever methods of package building your distro uses.
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Magmarock: I have written scripts to do A I'd like to learn how to do B.
Look up how to create a package for your distro. Most distros have a wiki or something somewhere with the information on how to create a package for it :)
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