Installscript

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Contents 1 Description 2 Prerequirements 3 Manual 4 Tutorial 4.1 First of all 4.2 Scripts customisation 4.3 Installation protocol 4.4 Available modules 4.5 Stow(ES) 4.6 To be continued... 5 Links

Description

The Installsscript is a tool that the handles the conventional installation steps with a collection of scripts.

Prerequirements

• Development environment

Manual

• Manual De
• Manual En

Tutorial

First of all

• Linux knowledge is required
• It is useful to have experiences in compiling VDR and it's component manually

Scripts customisation

To be continued...

Installation protocol

Mainmenu	Startmenu
Download Manager	Download Manager
DL Manager Sub 1	One layer deeper
DL Manager Sub 2	Here, one actually selects the sources
Download Status	Download status
Mainmenu	Startmenu => Software Manager
Software Manager	Selection of the packages.
Software Select	Here, the selection of the sources takes place (version independent). One should roughly what maches together!
Start up	Entry for /etc/inittab
Channels Select	Selection of the channels.conf
Software Manager	Software Manager => Patches
Patch Select	Basically all patches can be applied as available. Just copy them into ../packages/vdr/patches (requirement: --dry-run works)
Patchlog	If everythings went fine
Mainmenu	Mainmenu => Plugins Manager
Plugins Manager	There are three options: <I> for install, <U> for replace, and <D> for delete. Sometime VDR has to be patched for some plugins, should be visible in the plugins.log, for --reverse of a patches, just de-install the corresponding plugin (<D>).
Plugins Opt	Show additional options for plugins compilation. See also make.conf
Mainmenu	Mainmenu => Compiling
Driver Select	Selection of the DVB driver.
Postinstallation	Shows the Postinstallation.
Compile Menu	Selection of the options.
Edit	Here one can change the options for the compilation of VDR
Plugins Check	Show what was compiled
Mainmenu	Mainmenu => pluginsetup
Plugins Select	Dialog for activation of the plugins, it can later be changed through pluginsetup plugin
Installationslog	The log files are located in /var/log/vdr

Available modules

This is an index of the available modules. Everything below ./add can be upgraded.

Modules in the ../untestet directory must to be customised!

• One modules requires kernel 2.6 (actuator.cmd)
• Some modules are still in beta status
• Other have missing links

Stow(ES)

GNU stow helps to organise the files under /usr/local, by installing every software under his own directory tree under /usr/local/stow. And then, symbol links create the illusion, every software is installed in the same place.

Here are some of the most important commands

• help

/usr/local/stow/stowES help --prog stow=/usr/local/stow/stow

• checkstow (cs)

/usr/local/stow/stowES cs --prog stow=/usr/local/stow/stow
Checking packages in /usr/local/stow (78 matches):
I (  772.5) DFB++-0.9.20
I (  1,385) DirectFB-0.9.20
I (19223.5) ImageMagick-6.0.2
I ( 10,085) MPlayer-1.0pre4
....

• checkin (ci)

/usr/local/stow/stowES ci MPlayer-1.0pre4 --prog stow=/usr/local/stow/stow
Calling "stow" to check in package MPlayer-1.0pre4 ...done.
Calling ldconfig

• ceckout (co)

/usr/local/stow/stowES co MPlayer-1.0pre4 --prog stow=/usr/local/stow/stow
Calling "stow -D" to check out package MPlayer-1.0pre4 ...done.
Calling ldconfig.

• remove (rm)

/usr/local/stow/stowES rm MPlayer-1.0pre4 --prog stow=/usr/local/stow/stow
Calling "stow -D" to check out package MPlayer-1.0pre4 ...done.
Calling "rm -rf" to remove package MPlayer-1.0pre4 ...done.
Calling ldconfig.

• exchange

/usr/local/stow/stowES exchange MPlayer-1.0pre4 MPlayer-1.0pre5 --prog stow=/usr/local/stow/stow
Calling "stow -D" to check out package MPlayer-1.0pre4 ...done.
Calling "stow" to check in package MPlayer-1.0pre5 ...done.
Calling ldconfig.

To be continued...

Links

[1]	ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Tools	VDR FTP
[2]	http://linvdr.org/download/vdr/Tools	Download mirror
[3]	http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/stow	GNU Stow project homepage
[4]	http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~al10/stowES	Extensions to Stow
[5]	http://linuxwiki.de/Stow	Stow Wiki