hydra - 2014-12-12

THIS PROGRAM IS MENT FOR LINUX ONLY!
DESCRIPTION:

Abt is a simple(maybe not well written) Python scrypt with the goal to make installing programs from tarball,much easier than before.

WHAT IT DOES:
Abt takes a name of tar archive (example: cool-game.tar.xz) and extract,run ./configure or ./CONFIGURE,runs make and if requested make install too.

PRECONDITIONS AND MISSING FEATURES:
Since ABT is a new tool,it has some preconditions to work almost fine.
1) You can't specify where you want an archive to be extracted and compiled,but you will be able with next release[SOLVED with ABT versione 0.0.3]
2) You MUST have installed tar and python3 in your Linux box
3) For now it only support tar.xz,tar.gz,tar.bz2 and .zip archives
4) For now you can't pass arguments to ./configure scripts(but you will be able to do so in next releases)
5)I'm an italian guy,that's why you may find translation errors and/or comments in italian in the source code
4)I'm just a student who likes to help Linux community when possible,so you cannot except professional applications from me.

IF YOU WANT CONTACT,HELP OR INSULT ME:
send an email to lorenzoguardingo@gmail.com or a message here on sourceforge.net

USAGE:
Decompress abt-0.0.4a.tar.gz archive and run:
python3 abt.py etc...

SYPNOSYS:
abt --archive <target archive=""> --build-dir

Once the compilation step is done,you'll be asked if you want to install too:
Type YES to proceed(you need to run abt as superuser to do so)
Type NO to abort.

HELP WILL BE APPRECIATED
I repeat,if you wanna improve this wiki or contribute with everything else,you are welcome.Send me an email at lorenzoguardingo@gmail.com

 

Last edit: hydra 2014-12-26