Is there a way to get a deb package to add a repository and install a package?

[_sluimers_]

See my signature for what I want this for.

As for why, this way someone would always get the newest version available whenever I update the ppa, sparing me from updating posts, links and/or files.

I thought I solved it by simply adding a preinst file in the package
and write this:

#!/bin/bash
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ika; sudo apt-get install ika

But that doesn't work.


Does anyone know how it is possible?
I know dropbox does it.

[Penguin Guy]

No. This is a bad idea. Do not do it.

The user adds your repository:

# add-apt-repository ppa:ika

Then installs your package through the repository:

# apt-get install ika

Not the other way round. Instead, post instructions about how to add the repository and install through apt on your website.


EDIT: Some links:

• ika (homepage)
• ika (sourceforge)
• ika (svn@sourceforge)
• ika (launchpad)
• ika (ppa@launchpad)

[_sluimers_]

Is there no way then for users to add a repository and install the necessary packages by a click of a button?
There's a lot of users that rather want to click on something then having to type.

[EDIT] Never mind trying to use launchers[/EDIT]

[Penguin Guy]

Is there no way then for users to add a repository and install the necessary packages by a click of a button?
There's a lot of users that rather want to click on something then having to type.

You could write a script to do it, but the whole idea of one-click add-repo and install is generally frowned upon as it isn't very transparent. Also, if I understand correctly, this is a game development 'kit' and isn't actually a game in itself, in which case it shouldn't really be a .deb anyway.

On a side note, it looks like you've got some good code there but little code management, if you started a project on Launchpad and moved the code to a Bazaar branch you'll probably find development much easier and might get a few more people involved.

[tgm4883]

Totally doable, I'm not sure why penguin guy thinks it's frowned upon. You can't have a package in the official repositories that add another repo, but you could definitely build a package that when it installs it adds the PPA.


I do it for mythbuntu-repos in postinst, take a look at

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mythbun...ebian/postinst


It does more than just adds a repo, all you really need to do is something like

echo "deb http://$repo/mythbuntu/$version/ubuntu $release main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mythbuntu-repos.list

in postinst. Just make sure you have it remove the file in postrm