HOWTO: Hoary After-Install Helper

[UbuWu]

A little bug: I have the following line in my sources.list:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted universe multiverse

And when I start the haih, it adds 2 more seperate lines for universe and multiverse... and the same for the security repo.

[sb73542]

Very nice script, I've been hoping for something like this for months! Thanks!

[j_baer]

Nis,

Good job on the script. I haven't tested it as of yet but I've been reviewing the code and it should work well. Here are my first thoughts.

- Should add ms core fonts.

- I'm sure the firefox enhancement script is something everyone will want.

For those who have nVidia/ATI cards they will want to add these drivers.

Thanks,

j baer

[Nis]

Nis,

Good job on the script. I haven't tested it as of yet but I've been reviewing the code and it should work well. Here are my first thoughts.

- Should add ms core fonts.

- I'm sure the firefox enhancement script is something everyone will want.

For those who have nVidia/ATI cards they will want to add these drivers.

Thanks,

j baer

The corefonts and nvidia drivers are easy adds so those will go into the next version. I don't have an ATI card so I'm not sure how easy/difficult that will be. I had ATI instructions in the WAIH but I never knew if they worked correctly or not. I'll see what I can do.

What is this Firefox enhancement script? I'll do a search for it and if it is really cool and helpful then it can certainly go in.

Thanks for your suggestions.

[Nis]

Version 0.8 now supports installing the MS core fonts and NVIDIA drivers. I've got some instructions to install the ATI drivers but I am unable to test them. If you can, please test and let me know of any problems. Thanks.

[Riggs]

I'm sure it's just me, but here's what I'm getting now:

Package `flashplayer-mozilla' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `flashplayer-mozilla' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `sun-j2re1.5' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `sun-j2re1.5' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `msttcorefonts' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `msttcorefonts' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

That happens no matter what I select, and it tells me that the package is already installed. What am I doing wrong?

[Nis]

I'm sure it's just me, but here's what I'm getting now:

Package `flashplayer-mozilla' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `flashplayer-mozilla' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `sun-j2re1.5' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `sun-j2re1.5' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `msttcorefonts' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `msttcorefonts' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

That happens no matter what I select, and it tells me that the package is already installed. What am I doing wrong?

I thought I had fixed that problem. I'll look into it and try to make a release sometime soon. Thanks for pointing this out.

[la-karaviro]

i used your 0.7 script, thank you very much,
where do you have 0.8, or isnt that nececair?

i just went away of gentoo, it was a great distri, but i have enough of working on the system wile other working WITH the system
so i got bloody user now, and thank you to let me be that, thank you for your help and work

[sb73542]

Hello,

Thanks again for putting this thing together. One (big) request: would it be possible to do a fresh Hoary install, run this script, and then burn the apt catch to an .iso for easy downloading? We've been discussing that on this thread: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=119307 .
In general, dialup users have to borrow a friend's computer or order a CD from a cheap online retailer, and it's just plain impossible to download all the packages and their dependancies by hand. Thanks for the help!

[angrykeyboarder]

In the tradition of the WAIH (Warty After-Install Helper) the HAIH (Hoary After-Install Helper) has arrived. Or at least a rough version of it. The HAIH is very similar to ubuntu-geek's automation script but with a different philosophy: the HAIH is a simple GUI designed for new users to Ubuntu and Linux in general that will install certain applications and libraries. It's main focus to enable support for things users are used to while using other operating systems, namely Java, Flash, MP3, DVD, and embedded video. Here's what's done so far:

• Flash installation
• Java installation
• Embedded web media
• DVD support
• MP3 playing support

I'd like to add MP3 encoding support eventually but that will have to be added to ubuntu-backports (which the HAIH uses extensively). Hope some people find this useful.

Attached is the script. Download it and run it with the following commands:

bunzip2 haih-0.7.bz2
./haih-0.7

Let me know of any bugs.

I just attempted to use your latest (0.7) and got errors when it came to installing Java and Flash. Also it didn't recognize that I already had some of the entries it was trying to add to my apt sources.list (so now I have duplicates).


And lastly, I'd have sworn there was a Gstreamer plugin for DVD playback. If so that could have been used in place of totem-xine.