Installing made easy

[cage47]

Just wanna ramble about something. Is it really that big a deal for hackers to write in install scripts that automate most of the install process. Don't get me wrong. I'm not above configure/make/make install. But I install my Star Office 5.2 by running a (verbose) install script. My WordPerfect 8 install is just a click on the script itself. And it's comperable in ease to the Windows version. And I've been able to load these in Mandrake and Debian with equal ease. Though RPM's and Deb's make life almost as easy, in the eye of the Windows convert this would be a major benefit. Now that we're seeing a useable desktop for the average user, hackers might wanna work on ease of install. Not that this is a new idea, but it's not like it can't be done. Heck even Heretic II's install was flawless. More of this we need.

[paulb]

Yah, good idea, take all the fun out of installing somthing :). Whats next, automatically resolve errors?

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I think that it would be easy enough to have a file (IG install) that contained the words

./configure
make
make install

but then if there was an error it would proceed anyway. Now that I think about it, those would just give an error anyway, so what is the problem?