Installscript

Description

The Installsscript is a tool that the handles the conventional installation steps with a collection of scripts.

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Prerequirements

• Development environment

check needed requirements by this command:

bash> sh vdr-install-script-current.run -- --checkreq

On sarge it needs libncurses5-dev and others obvious (if you typed in previous command) packages.

Tutorial

First of all

• Linux knowledge is required
• It is useful to have experiences in compiling VDR and it's component manually

Scripts customisation

Unpack

bash> sh vdr-install-script-current.run --noexec --target /tmp/vdr
bash> cd /tmp/vdr/setup

The following files should be adapted according to your needs.

+--  $DISDIR
    +--  setup
        +--  config
            |--+ setup.conf
            |--+ make.conf
            |--+ modules.conf
            |--+ sources.conf
            |--+ marks2pts.conf
            |--+ keymacros.conf
        +--  examples
            +--  plugins
                +--  mailbox
                    |--+ accounts.conf
            +--  vdr
                |--+ vdr.conf

CMD(s)

+--  $DISDIR
    +--  admin
        +--  command-cmds
            |--+ *.conf
        +--  plugin-cmds
            |--+ *.conf
        +--  recording-cmds
            |--+ *.run
        +--  shutdown-cmds
            |--+ *.run
        +--  start-cmds
            |--+  rc
            |--+  rc.d
            |--+ [...]

Links

[1]	ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Tools	VDR FTP
[2]	http://linvdr.org/download/vdr/Tools	Download mirror
[3]	http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/stow	GNU Stow project homepage
[4]	http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~al10/stowES	Extensions to Stow
[5]	http://linuxwiki.de/Stow	Stow Wiki