Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

On 10/08/2013 01:48 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 13:22 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote:
> > I am coming late to this thread, but this talk of a "single-button"
> > install scares me.  I take the downloaded Linux binary LO package and
> > re-package it into a Slackware Linux installation package.  I use a
> > script I created to do this and all I have to do when a new LO release
> > comes out is to change the version and run the script.  Out comes a
> > Slackware package, ready for installation.  I surely hope that any
> > effort going to a single-point installer for LO, which would probably
> > break my process, will not be the only way to install LO in the future,
> > and the current installation scheme will still be an option.
> > Girvin Herr
> What I have seen with Linux "one-click" installers is they actually
> invoke the distro software installer. This requires user confirmation
> before the install occurs (password entry). So it is as secure as any
> other package installation. The "one-click" installers are normally
> distro (distro family) specific.
>
> Currently I have two versions of LO installed, one from the repository
> and a downloaded version.
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Yes, Slackware calls its install system "pkgtools", which includes the 
"installpkg", "removepkg", and "upgradepkg" command line tools. My 
concern is that the LO developers will create their own installer, which 
could make it tough for me to repackage the LO distributions, depending 
on how they implement it.  Of course, I could always compile the source 
code, but that can be another can of worms and it takes a lot longer to 
compile LO than to just repackage the already compiled binary.  I am not 
sure what your definition of "distro" is in your reply above.  It could 
mean the LO distro or the Linux distro, in my case Slackware.

I do not like using supplied package installers.  The only one I know of 
and do use is the Adobe Acrobat Reader installer.  Every time I use it, 
I shudder because I do not know exactly what is going on in there.  
Computer security is a high priority with me and I generally do not 
install such programs unless I have no choice, such as with AR.  
Generally, such package installers need to be run as root and that is a 
no-no with me.  Luckily, so far, AR's installer has been just an 
extractor and does not need to be run as root, so I can run it in user 
mode, repackage the extracted binary into a Slackware package and then 
install that as root.  So far, I have been lucky there.  It is a matter 
of who do I trust.
Take care.
Girvin Herr


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