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Old 05-13-2009, 06:25 AM   #1
KaLPo
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Eclipse plugins installer


Hello!!

I am trying to program a little eclipse installer. It is supposed to install eclipse in /etc/eclipse and change permissions, add into the menu a eclipse.desktop with an icon and all this stuff. This is the script I have.
Code:
#!/bin/bash

function UNINSTALL {

	echo "Removing /etc/eclipse"
	rm -R --interactive=never /etc/eclipse
	groupdel eclipse
	echo "Removing /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop"
	rm --interactive=never /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
	echo "Removing /bin/eclipse"
	rm --interactive=never /bin/eclipse
	echo "Done !"
}
function INSTALL {

	echo "Installing"
	echo "Removing old data"
	UNISTALL
tar -zxvf eclipse.tar.gz
mv eclipse /etc
groupadd eclipse
chgrp eclipse /etc/eclipse
chmod ug+rwx /etc/eclipse -R
usermod -a -G $USER kalpo
cp eclipse.png /etc/eclipse 
cat > /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Eclipse
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/etc/eclipse/eclipse.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Development;
EOF
cat > /bin/eclipse << EOF
/etc/eclipse/eclipse
EOF
chgrp eclipse /bin/eclipse
chmod a+rwx /bin/eclipse
echo "Done!!"
}

args=("$@")
i=0
USER="kalpo"
userLetter="-u"
UnInstallLetter="-U"
while [ $i -lt $# ]; do
	#echo ${args[${i}]}
	str=${args[${i}]}
	if [ $str = $userLetter ]; then
		TEMP_USER=${args[${i}+1]}
		if [ ${#TEMP_USER} -gt 0 ]; then
			USER=$TEMP_USER
			let i=i+1
			echo "USER SET: '$USER'"	
		else
			echo "BAD USER SETTING. USING DEFAULT: '$USER'"	
		fi
	elif [ $str = $UnInstallLetter ]; then
		echo "Uninstalling"	
		UNINSTALL
		exit 0;
	fi
	let i=i+1
done
INSTALL
It works all right but I want to improve it using other script for installing plugins.

It just have to untar the plugins and merge the plugins files in the eclipse folder.

My problem is that I don't know how to merge files in bash...

Can anyone help me?

Last edited by KaLPo; 05-13-2009 at 06:36 AM. Reason: I mixed threads, sorry
 
Old 05-13-2009, 11:36 AM   #2
thermite1033
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A cp to <eclipse-dir>/dropins is enaugh, and add '-clean' to the eclipse.ini file. I can not think of any files that needs to be merged.

sidenote:

I recommend to install eclipse in /opt or in /usr/local instead of /etc.
 
Old 05-13-2009, 04:35 PM   #3
KaLPo
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I don't know the difference among /opt /usr/local and /etc. Sincerely, I use always /etc because the apache2 folder is there and as I thought in my starts that this was the folder for programs I got used to use it... Can you explain me what is de difference?

I have tried to use cp -r and it works fine, it overwrites the files with the same name but well, I don't really care about that now. I said merge because I need to put the same folders inside the same folders, so I thought the cp command would overwrite the entire folder without preserving the original content. I see I was wrong xDDDDD.

I will share the code when finish

Thank you!
 
Old 05-13-2009, 05:35 PM   #4
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Have a look at this page about the FHS - this may help. The Filesystem Heirarchy Standard. I wouldn't go putting application into /etc.
 
Old 05-13-2009, 06:19 PM   #5
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That link is amazing bgeddy, Thanks a lot!!!! and I will definitively change /etc for /opt.
 
  


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