waih: Warty After Install Helper

[Nis]

not that i recall, it didn't....

Hmm... If you could try running the script again for Java while running the below in another terminal.

watch ls -l /tmp/*.bin /tmp/*.deb

You should see the bin file size steadily increase as it is being downloaded by wget. The you should see the deb appear after answering two questions in an xterm that is opened by the script. If you're not even seeing the xterm then I suspect the download might be failing. The Java part has worried me even though this has been the only failing I've heard so far. Thanks for your help.

[mattyh]

Awesome script. Something like this could be REALLY useful for new installs, and *maybe* even something that could be included on the desktop or something with a default install at some point in a future release. Do you think you could add a section for disabling ipv6 or is that not necessary once you upgrade to firefox 1.0? I'll try to think of some other things that might be able to be automated as well. All in all, very nice job. =D> =D> =D>

[saBrEwolf]

Wow! Nis, this is a brilliant script!

Perhaps I could draw on those skills to help me out with something.

I had an idea of creating a script where you select a bunch of audio files (be they mp3s or oggs or anything else) and the script uses mpg321 or other tool to convert them to wav. These wavs are then put in an iso to be burned by nautilus. But I have no idea on how I could go about doing this.

Could you help me with this as this is the basic idea of G3b (a GNOME alternative to K3b I've been planning)

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[ubuntu_demon]

Nis,

would you like to join :

easy GUI based custom ubuntu cd creation tool
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...?t=5981&page=1

We are talking about a tool to create custom ubuntu cd's.

One of our options is that the tool creates a series of flags for a script like yours that is run after the standard installation.

[WW]

saBrEwolf: You should go to the #ubuntu IRC chat room and look for "ogra". Ask him about "MrBurns".

[Nis]

saBrEwolf: You should go to the #ubuntu IRC chat room and look for "ogra". Ask him about "MrBurns".

I haven't had much luck getting MrBurns to work. It looks promising though. IMHO, however, audio CD burning should be were it belongs: in Rhythmbox. But until that day something simple would be really nice. Maybe I'll give MrBurns another try and it will do more than just look simple (no burning when I clicked on Write CD).

[Nis]

Some updates to the script to make it update Firefox through the Ubuntu Backports Project. I did notice that Mplayer can no longer be downloaded through Marillat; some dependencies aren't resolving. If anybody has any info on this or an alternate Mplayer and mplayerplug-in repository let me know. Thanks!

[Nis]

Urgent! If you have used the most recent version of waih to install Firefox from the Ubuntu Backports Project you must reinstall Java using an updated version of waih. Apparently the UBP Firefox has problems with Java 1.4.2. The latest version of waih installs Java 1.5.0 which UBP Firefox apparently has no problems with.

[jdong]

Some updates to the script to make it update Firefox through the Ubuntu Backports Project.

Cool, cool cool

Does it add the UBP repository into sources.list, too?

[Nis]

Does it add the UBP repository into sources.list, too?

Yes it does. However, the Firefox build is having major problems with Java. Java 1.4.2 does not work (Firefox won't even start with the plugin symlinked) and Java 1.5.0 has problems as well (Firefox crashes loading a page using Java. Something about not being able to load the Java VM).