Questions tagged [installer]
An installer is a computer program responsible for installing other computer programs (aka software) on a system.
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Upgrade Firefox Quantum from tarball
I wrote a little script to automate upgrading Firefox to a new version under Debian, since I don't want to install it from unstable and the snap version has ...
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Upgrade script for MediaWiki website with one external addon (wave 1)
I have a MediaWiki 1.33.0 website with only one external addon installed (external extension), which is ContactPage.
I have created the following script with that logic:
if there is an upgrade to ...
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Uninstalling Erlang and RabbitMQ, using Write-Verbose to ensure sequencing
I'm new at PowerShell and I like it.
I had the change to write a script that uninstall Erlang and RabbitMQ and I want the same script to then remove the Erlang folder and the RabbitMQ folder.
But ...
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Ruby script for automating software install on a brand new Linux OS
I have some scripts to automate software install, apply some configurations and so on after installing a new system.
I used to have them as bash scripts but it was generally a poor idea.
I have ...
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Dockerfile to install Apache
I'm getting started with Docker, and I've set up a very simple image built from a Dockerfile. It's based FROM the ubuntu image, ...
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All-core MediaWiki website upgrade script
I wrote the following Bash script to upgrade All-core MediaWiki websites (no added extensions/skins or images - besides logo image).
I already tested the essence of this script and it worked for me; ...
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Upgrade Firefox Quantum with logging and version check
This is the updated version of the script first posted here.
Specifically, I first wanted to save the logs to a log file at "$HOME/.logs/ffupgrade.log", but I'm ...
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Batch configuration script for a new computer
I've been working on a script which configures newly imaged computers (power settings, installed apps, etc)
This is what I have so far:
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Installing the VC Redistributable (2015|2017|2019) for both x86 and x64 using Inno Setup
I don't have a virtual computer so I am not able to beta test this installation. Therefore I am kindly asking if I have gone about this correctly. It compiles OK.
Step 1
I declared these variables:
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Python automatic import and install script
In the following script, I am trying to infer if the modules are managed by a conda environment or not and based on that, I am trying to auto install and import the modules. [I skipped around 5 to 6 ...
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Validating Amazon CloudFormation templates using Rspec
I have created an open source project that uses Rspec to validate the formatting of AWS::CloudFormation::Init YAML blocks in CloudFormation templates.1
My project is here.
Some general concerns:
Is ...
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Bash script to setup new Debian installs - follow-up
I have this bash script I've been working on and I have updated it. I was hoping for some advice and/or input on the code.
This script is run directly after a fresh install of ...
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Batch script to download and extract Node.JS and NPM packages
The following is my first real attempt at batch scripting, and I'm new to it so I'm not sure whether what I've done is to best practice. The code works, and I'm open to suggestions.
Basically the ...
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Install a Python package based on active_gpu or version [closed]
I have the following code, is there a way to optimize it/reduce the code?
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Partial Maven clean install after Git pull
I had searched for a solution to mvn clean install on my changed projects after a git pull. I even asked a question over at SO ...
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Interactive Linux upgrade script - Follow-up #1
One year ago I asked for a yearly revision of my Interactive Linux upgrade script.
There is nothing new to the conditions, therefore please read the original question before you decide to comment and ...
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Bash program that sets up and configures the environment for new Debian installs
Here is my second version of a bash program I'm writing, as per @hjpotter92 I've updated and cleaned it since last:
This script is run directly after a fresh install of Debian, to do:
sets up ...
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Ubuntu kernel update and removal automation script
This is my first bigger than a few lines bash script.
It automates kernel updating and removing on Ubuntu through ukuu (Ubuntu kernel update utility).
I'm not yet ...
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Portable (Linux, Cygwin,…) Makefile for my own Shell OpenSSL file en-/decryption scripts
Let it be clear that in this question I ask for further guidance with my current version of Makefile used for my own Shell OpenSSL file en-/decryption scripts, not ...
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Simple Linux upgrade script in Bash revision 2
As I will be deploying this script on multiple machines with the very same system Linux Mint 18 with rather same configuration, I would like to be semi-sure I won't screw things up much.
This little ...
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Systemd service configuration helper script
I've written a script that semi-automates the process of configuring/creating a new systemd service.
The script is working perfectly well, however, I've had some trouble with the styling and ...
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Bash script to setup new Debian installs
This script is run directly after a fresh install of Debian, to do:
sets up syntax highlighting in nano,
sets up iptables,
sets ...
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Shell install.sh for repository (rpi_videoloop)
I've written my first installation script in shell and was wondering on how I can improve the install procedure to make it more clean?
Here's the code:
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Automating the installation and configuration of Vim
I am writing a script to automate the install and configuration of vim, zsh, ohmyzsh and tmux, on a Linux/Mac. I'd like to perform all operations in Python, rather than using ...
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Symlinking shared libraries from a platform-specific directory
We have a setup script for setting up a development environment, and setting up the image libraries is getting a bit messy:
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Arch linux installation script to be reviewed for any leakage of personal / security info
While I have been teaching myself a little about linux, it's boot processes and service configuration I have been using arch linux in virtualbox for my experimentation.
Eventually after much wiling ...
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Interactive Linux upgrade script
One year ago, I asked for a review of Simple Linux upgrade script in Bash.
Conditions are slightly changed, and/or more accurate:
Code readability for the code user, making it simple to adjust the ...
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Install Python script requirements
Sometimes I download a Python script (from a trusted source), and can't run it because of missing dependencies, which I have to install one by one (no ...
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Powershell Script to remove printers and drivers
I am learning Powershell Scripting as I move my work environment to Windows 10. The script below is to be edited by the SysAdmin (for the list of Print Queues and Printer Drivers) to specify what ...
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Query registry for installed software
Hoping someone can help me out with the two aspects of my script that I think is causing the most performance hindrance. Recreating the Array $Result and using the <...
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Maintaining a complicated installer supporting per-user and everyone
Another challenge for developing rubberduck VBA project is to develop an installer that support per-user mode and everyone-mode.
Normally with an MSI package, one has a bootstrapper so it is possible ...
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Nginx-WordPress installer for Debian
I have written the following Bash script which includes an Nginx WordPress bootstrapper: A program establish WordPress apps fast on a Debian-Nginx environment.
It utilizes CertBot for HTTPS, SSHguard ...
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Changing php.ini with code in a LEMP stack on Debian systems
This is how I establish a Debian LEMP and use code to change php.ini directives, as part of php-fpm.
Please review the way I change ...
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Ubuntu-Nginx lightweight server environment setup
Please review the following Bash script that uses to establish a "lightweight" Ubuntu-Nginx server environment mainly aimed to run small WordPress sites (about 5 plugins, about 25 webpages, about 25 ...
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Webapp Substrate script for WordPress on Debian-Nginx
The following script creates a webapp substrate for WordPress webapps/websites on Ubunu-Nginx with PHP-FPM and Mysql environments, with Certbot, while all software is uncustomized.
Such substrate ...
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Installer Script
I would like to know how to simplify and improve this script, which should:
Check to determine if the Central Process is 32 or 64 bit
Determine if, specifically, Java 1.8 is installed on the computer
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Batch bash installer script for clean Ubuntu GNOME installation
I just finished (I think) writing a bash script to install all my essential software to Ubuntu GNOME. I'll be making more for different distributions but once I have one to go off of, I can do the ...
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Automated owncloud installation script
Here is a shell script which installs and configure owncloud on a Debian server. It also installs apache2 and MySQL as dependencies and fail2ban with a specific rule for owncloud. Apache2 is also ...
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Install Ruby using rbenv in a bash script
I want to write an automated bash script for installing Ruby and Rails using rbenv, but I am getting session reload issues in the terminal.
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Install, configure, and maintain content for Ubuntu webserver
I made a script for my Ubuntu server(s) running on Google Cloud Platform. The idea behind it is I can create a new instance and paste this script in Google Cloud so it runs it on the new instance and ...
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Automatic creation of python conda packages
I packaged a pure python library using conda.
It is tested to work with 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6 and should work on all three mayor operating systems.
I am quite surprised, that there is no command or ...
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Bash script which downloads the latest linux stable kernel
I made this script when I started downloading the latest stable linux kernel's source from https://www.kernel.org to compile it myself, now I have improved it a bit and decided to create a public repo ...
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Bash script that creates a local environment for CHICKEN scheme (like virtualenv for Python)
Usage
To create a localenv called sicp, do $ localenv sicp
Activate the localenv: $ . sicp/bin/activate
Check installed eggs in ...
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Ansible playbook to install application from tarball
I'm doing this, but as I'm the expert here (because no-one else is doing it) I have no real idea how awesome my code actually is.
So the code should do the following:
Export the tarball from ...
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LXC Bootstrap - A wrapper script around lxc utility scripts to create and set up an LXC container based on settings
So some background here.
I recently discovered the ease of LXC containers on Ubuntu. I've been building some 'test' containers locally for testing things I develop on Ubuntu, but the evil thing is ...
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Dynamic software update system using PHP
I have this code I have made to check after new release, when there is a new one it ask you for install it, and then installs it if you accept.
The file is a zip file with the new folders and files ...
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Simple Linux upgrade script in Bash
As I will be deploying this script on multiple machines with the very same system Linux Mint 18 with rather same configuration, I would like to be semi-sure I won't screw things up much. This little ...
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Downloading and updating deploymentshare applications
I'm an absolute newb when it comes to PowerShell, and this is pretty much my first real script. I'd now like to know ways to improve it and if possible to shorten the code even further. I use it ...
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External updater
I've created little block of code that should update a external program, but I've checked it through and have not seen possible error or warnings. There are no errors in my testing but I wan't to ...
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MacPorts - Quick Install Script
I wrote this script to automatically install the relevant version of MacPorts.
It's supposed to be used in a fashion similar to the official installer for HomeBrew.
FYI: The real reason that I ...
