dev_Installing

Installing Applications

Installing from Repos

installApp function

The idea is that once a repo (if a third party repo... say a PPA) is added, this would install the software in question

Goals/Description

• Arguments taken:

  • it take an unlimited amount of arguments.
  • it DOES display out those arguments in a line similar "Installing <arguments here>"

• Function tasks:

  • it uses the $install var to install the selected package

    • $install is assigned based on the pmanager variable
      • this is basically the detected distro's default way of installing from the default repos (or close enough... say ubuntu where a user can add repos ... this would still be "apt install ")

  • Checking for software installed already:

    • This will check the list of apps and only install those not detected as installed already

• Personal Comments

  • Best used when:

    • I think this is best when installing something from a default repo or AFTER the needed sources (PPA? RPMFusion? Pacman repo?) are added already.

  • IMPORTANT NOTE:

    • I cant remember why this is the case but each argument in the list passed to installApp has to be in seperate double quotes for the checking part of installApp
      • ... otherwise it's all detected as one single string, I think.

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$install variable

• This is based on the package manager detected
  • Examples
    • Arch Linux/Manjaro
      • sudo pacman -S
    • Debian/Ubuntu
      • sudo apt install
    • Fedora
      • sudo dnf install
    • OpenSuse
      • sudo zypper install
    • Solus
      • sudo eopkg install
• How to use:
  • all that has to be done is $install <package name>

Installing third-party Apps

(Sept 2025 addition) things are not done yet but here is the idea

There are two function that can be called

• metaExternalDownload
  • Downloads and handles tarballs, DEBs, RPMs, and other files
  • This is the main one to call from "software functions" except for the case below
• get_and_handle_github_downlaods
  • (function name may change)
  • this checks to see if its a valid repo
    • this then uses info and filters to get the github download when a git clone is NOT desired.
      • (having $programURL or $program_url when i change the cases, being a "https://github.... .git" link would trigger the git clone)
  • after a few checks for different ways that repos may have "releases" (not all do the same),
  • THEN the program_URL is passed to metaExternalDownload