sh packages in X
 

Hi.

I'm just curious as I was recently installing lincityNG.package with sh and I am surprised at how user friendly the process was.

I was wondering, is there a way of running these packages in an X session? So it brings up a shell and runs it in sh?

I ask because Windows users would find the prospect of a clickable automated installer very attractive!

If it doesn't exist it might be an idea for window-managers and desktop environments to specify a file wrapper (Like, .install) and when a file of the type is executed from within X it could run it in a terminal appending sh to the filename.

I had no clue what you were talking about, but looking around shows that's actually what it's supposed to do:

http://www.autopackage.org/docs/howt...3e41102950e147

Also, there's a SUSE RPM (http://packman.links2linux.de/package/626) for normal install if you want it.

Stuff like this makes me really nervous, but to each their own.

erm, not sure i really know what you're talking about... running a shell script doens't give you a graphical interface, so how does that relate to windows users? you can run ncurses ui's on a console, and they can respond to mouse actions even, but it's no XP-u-like unterface.

as far as appending "sh" to a filename... this really means nothing at all. linux isn't crippled into using a file extension to know what's in a file, shell scripts do not need to have any file extension at all, and most windowing systems will run anything they believe is executable.