Remasters - Install launcher

[melodie]

Hi,

I've done this one to start the installation process:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Install Livecd
Name[fr]=Installez le Live CD
Exec=gksu video-clean; /usr/sbin/draklive-install
Comment=Installer for your computer
GenericName=Livecd Install
Icon=/usr/share/icons/livecd-install.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=false
Categories=System;Utility;Core;GTK;X-MandrivaLinux-System;
Comment[fr_FR.UTF-8]=Installeur pour votre ordinateur

This allows the person to write the password only once, instead of twice : at the video-tool window, and then not more.

What you find usually:

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=
Comment[en_US]=
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec[$e]=/usr/bin/install-pclos
GenericName=
GenericName[en_US]=
Icon=/usr/share/icons/draklive-install.png
MimeType=
Name=Install PCLinuxOS
Name[en_US]=Install PCLinuxOS
Path[$e]=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DCOP-ServiceType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

Once executed, it does it calls what you can see facing "Exec[$e]=" : the /usr/bin/install-pclos script. This script is a tiny shell that contains:

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
#! /bin/sh

kdesu video-clean && /usr/sbin/draklive-install

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

and this script is such that you will repeatedly, install after install, give the root passwd twice in a row, once at video-clean, once at draklive-install launch.

I'm sure theses scripts could be more elaborated, with conditions (I don't know bash writing alas) according to which DE is there : if kde, if gnome... kdesu for kde, gksu for gnome, ktsuss (does the same, much lighter, no DE dependant : could be interesting for Lxde remasters, Openbox remasters and all that want to be lighter).

[Neal ManBear]

LXDE uses gksu. It is called for any action requiring root access, for example, launching Synaptic. So using gksu for the install script makes sense.

[melodie]

LXDE uses gksu. It is called for any action requiring root access, for example, launching Synaptic. So using gksu for the install script makes sense.

Hi Neal,

This might interest you for a next release, ktsuss is lighter on resources and I think smaller too.
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ktsuss

I have it in another distribution I use.

[Neal ManBear]

Melodie,
Thank you. I'll have a look.

[Texstar]

LXDE uses gksu. It is called for any action requiring root access, for example, launching Synaptic. So using gksu for the install script makes sense.

Hi Neal,

This might interest you for a next release, ktsuss is lighter on resources and I think smaller too.
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/ktsuss

I have it in another distribution I use.

It doesn't like pclinuxos.

[texstar@localhost ~]$ ktsuss
*** buffer overflow detected ***: ktsuss terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/i686/libc.so.6(__chk_fail+0x41)[0xb7ed9bc1]
/lib/i686/libc.so.6[0xb7ed93d8]
/lib/i686/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0xb7)[0xb7e5d517]
/lib/i686/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x15d)[0xb7e366cd]
/lib/i686/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0xad)[0xb7ed948d]
/lib/i686/libc.so.6(__sprintf_ch

[melodie]

It doesn't like pclinuxos.

[texstar@localhost ~]$ ktsuss
*** buffer overflow detected ***: ktsuss terminated

I have glibc 2.10.1-3 installed in this distro. In pclinuxos, could it be a matter of versions not matching ?