SL Alpha Installer

Well this would depend on seperating user dir and system dir. This could be nice. The first step would be to do a simple system install to /usr/local. One then could also make some assumptions on existing libraries or copy them to /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/local/SecondLife.

MoinMoin does something similar of you use a setup.py

I think it would be nice if Linden Labs takes this script to a new level.

At start one could say that normal install is "user install" but there is also a "system wide install" that would require root rights.

So did I.

# Copyright 1998 VMware, Inc.  All rights reserved.

Yeah, what? This is just a code example out of a public script. So they have a copyright. Yes, indeed. This was just an idea as how to solve. I did not want to suggest to violate their copyrights by citing a sniplet. And i also think that it is rather problematic to see parts of a script that might even not be solved otherwise as taboo. This would be like a software patent: Solved once, never use it again. If you wanted to say something different you should have explained more.

Vinci

Which bits of 'ALL RIGHTS RESERVED' are you having difficulty with?


You violated their copyright by routing through their IP and posting some of it to a public forum. To late, deed done, game over.

I don't care what you think your entitled to do, or anything you say to try and justify it. You blatently breached copyright, there is no middle grey area here.

If you don't respect the copyright and rights of others, how dare you get on your high horse and wave the open-source flag.

The script hangs while checking bzip2.

Tried the follow in a term.

bzip2 --version &> /dev/null

It hanged too. Using bash. Same behavior with:

bzip2 --version &> test.txt

Somethings funny with bzip2 it seems.

The >/dev/null redirect seems to be broken for bzip2. If you want to redirect the bzip2 version message to a file, try

bzip2 --version 2> test.txt

This redirects STDERR rather than STDOUT.