dev_Installing

Installing Applications

installApp function

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

  • 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>