Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (4)

2013-10-28 Thread Tobias Boege
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Ian Haywood wrote: > On Sunday, October 27, 2013, Benoit Minisini > mailto:gam...@users.sourceforge.net>> wrote: > > But I don't think it's a good idea to ask for the root or sudo password > > to installed Gambas package, for security reasons (can you really trust > > that self

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (2)

2013-10-28 Thread Tobias Boege
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Beno?t Minisini wrote: > Can people test it on system having no KDE desktop at all? > Sorry, I'm a bit late on this - who could have known that such big threads start exactly when I am just two days away from my computer? :-) I'm running Arch Linux with a Trinity desktop on

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (4)

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce
On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 13:06 +1100, Ian Haywood wrote: > On Sunday, October 27, 2013, Benoit Minisini > mailto:gam...@users.sourceforge.net>> wrote: > > But I don't think it's a good idea to ask for the root or sudo password > > to installed Gambas package, for security reasons (can you really trust

[Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (4)

2013-10-27 Thread Ian Haywood
On Sunday, October 27, 2013, Benoit Minisini mailto:gam...@users.sourceforge.net>> wrote: > But I don't think it's a good idea to ask for the root or sudo password > to installed Gambas package, for security reasons (can you really trust > that self-extracting installer?) > > Instead, I think I wil

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (4)

2013-10-27 Thread Kende Krisztián
2013-10-27 18:42 keltezéssel, Benoît Minisini írta: > Le 27/10/2013 18:33, Kende Krisztián a écrit : >> My Gambas application requires root privileges. So if the user doesn't >> trust the installer, then the hell ate the whole thing. :D >> >> If you want to install an application on Linux system,

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (4)

2013-10-27 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 27/10/2013 18:33, Kende Krisztián a écrit : > My Gambas application requires root privileges. So if the user doesn't > trust the installer, then the hell ate the whole thing. :D > > If you want to install an application on Linux system, you will need > root access. This is quite natural. Therefo

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (4)

2013-10-27 Thread Kende Krisztián
My Gambas application requires root privileges. So if the user doesn't trust the installer, then the hell ate the whole thing. :D If you want to install an application on Linux system, you will need root access. This is quite natural. Therefore, we use a controlled repository. But true, the PPA

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (2)

2013-10-27 Thread Fabien Bodard
1. Server: gambas.sourceforge.net 2. URL path: /install/gambas3-installer-test.run 3. Error notes: NONE 4. Error type: 404 5. Request method: GET 6. Request query string: NONE 7. Time: 2013-10-27 15:07:07 UTC (1382886427) 2013/10/27 Fabien Bodard > well charlie send me the archive... it work fi

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (2)

2013-10-27 Thread Fabien Bodard
well charlie send me the archive... it work fine on my kde/arch system 2013/10/27 Benoît Minisini > Le 27/10/2013 10:47, Fabien Bodard a écrit : > > I can't get it ... it seem the link is dead. > > > > It works there. > > -- > Benoît Minisini > > > -

[Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (4)

2013-10-27 Thread Benoît Minisini
Hi, I tested and found that using an embedded web application is as difficult as using a normal installer, so... let's back to an installer based on gb.qt4! But I don't think it's a good idea to ask for the root or sudo password to installed Gambas package, for security reasons (can you really

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (2)

2013-10-27 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 27/10/2013 10:47, Fabien Bodard a écrit : > I can't get it ... it seem the link is dead. > It works there. -- Benoît Minisini -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate appl

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (2)

2013-10-27 Thread Charlie Reinl
Am Samstag, den 26.10.2013, 23:04 +0200 schrieb Benoît Minisini: > Le 26/10/2013 22:47, Kende Krisztián a écrit : > > > > I get this error message: > > > > Sorry, the good link is: > > http://gambas.sf.net/installer/gambas3-installer-test.run > @Scenic:~$ ./gambas3-installer-test.run Verifying

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (2)

2013-10-27 Thread Fabien Bodard
I can't get it ... it seem the link is dead. 2013/10/27 Jussi Lahtinen > Now it seems to work. Displayed information was correct. > This was the output to console: > > $ ./gambas3-installer-test.run > Verifying archive integrity... All good. > Uncompressing Gambas installer test..

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (3)

2013-10-26 Thread Dimitris Anogiatis
Hey Benoit, When I try the self extracting executable on my laptop it gives me the following error message: Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing Gambas installer test. STARTDIR=/tmp/selfgz25001 Unsupported architecture: i686 Distribution: Debian Wheezy (7.2)

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (2)

2013-10-26 Thread Jussi Lahtinen
Now it seems to work. Displayed information was correct. This was the output to console: $ ./gambas3-installer-test.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing Gambas installer test. STARTDIR=/tmp/selfgz6148 PATH=/tmp/selfgz6148/x86_64/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightd

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (2)

2013-10-26 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 27/10/2013 00:04, Jussi Lahtinen a écrit : > ~/Desktop$ ./gambas3-installer-test.run > Verifying archive integrity... All good. > Uncompressing Gambas installer test > STARTDIR=/tmp/selfgz4621 > PATH=/tmp/selfgz4621/x86_64/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/loc

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (3)

2013-10-26 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 27/10/2013 00:42, Benoît Minisini a écrit : > Le 26/10/2013 23:50, Kende Krisztián a écrit : >>> I just have another idea: >>> >>> To make a GUI self-extracting installer, I have put in the >>> self-extracting archive all the Qt4 shared libraries, all Qt4 gui >>> components and the related compo

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (3)

2013-10-26 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 26/10/2013 23:50, Kende Krisztián a écrit : >> I just have another idea: >> >> To make a GUI self-extracting installer, I have put in the >> self-extracting archive all the Qt4 shared libraries, all Qt4 gui >> components and the related components. > > Yeah, this is a fully portable installer. B

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer

2013-10-26 Thread Jussi Lahtinen
> > The installer is provided with a bunch of system libraries and gambas > components for its own use. I copy them from my system which is x86_64. > I don't have any ARM or x96 system under the hood at the moment to > provide the same libraries for these architectures. > OK, I would guess there i

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (2)

2013-10-26 Thread Jussi Lahtinen
~/Desktop$ ./gambas3-installer-test.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing Gambas installer test STARTDIR=/tmp/selfgz4621 PATH=/tmp/selfgz4621/x86_64/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/loc

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (3)

2013-10-26 Thread Kende Krisztián
> I just have another idea: > > To make a GUI self-extracting installer, I have put in the > self-extracting archive all the Qt4 shared libraries, all Qt4 gui > components and the related components. Yeah, this is a fully portable installer. But why just the installer? Ubuntu Click packages are

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (2)

2013-10-26 Thread Kende Krisztián
> Can people test it on system having no KDE desktop at all? Works on Ubuntu 13.10 with GNOME+Unity. > It only provides a x86_64 installer. Can people test it on x86 system > to see if they get the "unsupported architecture" error message on > the command line? I get this error message on Ubuntu

[Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (3)

2013-10-26 Thread Benoît Minisini
I just have another idea: To make a GUI self-extracting installer, I have put in the self-extracting archive all the Qt4 shared libraries, all Qt4 gui components and the related components. Why not instead use the gb.httpd embedded http server, and make the installer a web application run thro

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer

2013-10-26 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 26/10/2013 22:48, Jussi Lahtinen a écrit : > Oh, sorry I understood wrongy... > > I think gambas runtime should be shipped with the installer. > How do you plan to install the runtime, with bash script? > A gambas runtime is shipped with the installer, but just to run the installer. The real

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (2)

2013-10-26 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 26/10/2013 22:47, Kende Krisztián a écrit : > > I get this error message: > Sorry, the good link is: http://gambas.sf.net/installer/gambas3-installer-test.run -- Benoît Minisini -- October Webinars: Code for Perform

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer

2013-10-26 Thread Jussi Lahtinen
Oh, sorry I understood wrongy... I think gambas runtime should be shipped with the installer. How do you plan to install the runtime, with bash script? "But then I should put one runtime for each architecture (x86, x86_64, ARM), and I can generate only one architecture from a specific system."

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (2)

2013-10-26 Thread Kende Krisztián
Sat, 26 Oct 2013 22:35:32 +0200 -n Benoît Minisini írta: > Here: > > http://gambas.sf.net/install/gambas3-installer-test.run > > You can download a self-extracting test installer. > > It will install nothing, but display a window that should show the > current desktop and the system distribut

[Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (2)

2013-10-26 Thread Benoît Minisini
Here: http://gambas.sf.net/install/gambas3-installer-test.run You can download a self-extracting test installer. It will install nothing, but display a window that should show the current desktop and the system distribution. Can people test it on system having no KDE desktop at all? It only p

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer

2013-10-26 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 26/10/2013 21:59, Jussi Lahtinen a écrit : > How the user would get security updates etc? I think it would be better to > use repositories. > Perhaps there could be something like PPAs, but with more broad support for > different architectures and distributions. > > Jussi > This does not replac

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer

2013-10-26 Thread Jussi Lahtinen
How the user would get security updates etc? I think it would be better to use repositories. Perhaps there could be something like PPAs, but with more broad support for different architectures and distributions. Jussi On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Benoît Minisini < gam...@users.sourceforge.ne

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer

2013-10-26 Thread Kende Krisztián
Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:57:09 +0200 -n Benoît Minisini írta: > Hi, > > I have just started to make a Gambas self-extracting installer in > Gambas. Good, but this installation method is Ubuntu- and Debian-stranger. > I will write it in two stages. > > The first stage is a command-line program that

[Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer

2013-10-26 Thread Benoît Minisini
Hi, I have just started to make a Gambas self-extracting installer in Gambas. I will write it in two stages. The first stage is a command-line program that will detect the current distribution, and automatically install a GUI component according to it, so that the second stage can be run. The