GUI "just makes it work" script for Fedora

[dwflo]

Will Frog be updated for Fedora 6? Will It install apps properly on the x86_64 versions?

To the OP. I see from your location you're not a native English speaker.

You mis-spelled "successfully"

and you're using the word "compleat" wrongly. You should have used "complete" Although some people use them interchangeably.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/compleat

But thanks for the Frog...

Wayne

[Firewing1]

Originally Posted by dwflo

Will Frog be updated for Fedora 6? Will It install apps properly on the x86_64 versions?

(I'm not sce script creator, BUT...) I don't think any *major* changes are needed to the script. What worked on FC6 should pretty well work on FC6 in terms of JRE and Flash, etc.
Firewing1

[stutes]

Noobie to linux here.

I'll echo feddie...

I've just tried this on a clean install Fed 5, however got rather disappointed when I was only given three options

Same exact situation for me... new clean install of FC5, and was only given the same three options.

So is this quote below true, that is works only on FC4 and FC6, but not on FC5?

No problem... Turns out, I didn't have the time to make it work in FC5 and S|G didn't either, so it's officially unsupported

That's a bummer, because I was really looking forward to this. It was the main reason I chose to go with FC5 instead Ubuntu.

[linux_paul]

stutes, feddie

If you copied the .frog directory from a previous install you need to clear the installed.log with:

cd ~/.frog
cat /dev/null > installed.log

[Firewing1]

@stutes: Well, actually, the steps for getting things to work aren't all that hard - Do you know what you'd like to do? Maybe I can help out.
Firewing1

[stutes]

pwiesen, thanks for the tip. I did not copy the .frog directory from a previous install, but the code you provided appears to have done the trick regardless. It showed me all the options, and all installed. It was either that, or these other commands I tried from a different post:

rpm -q frog
which frog
rpm -e frog

I really don't think it was this latter code.

The only thing I can figure is that perhaps I did this twice:

tar zxvf frog.tar.gz -C ~

and this is why I had trouble in the first place. But this is just speculation, I don't really remember.

As a noobie I am curious about exactly what I was doing with pwiesen's code. I figured out the "cd ~/.frog"... I'm changing the directory to /.frog (not sure what the "~" represents however). And from doing a little research I've figured out that "cat" is the command to display the file "installed.log" located in "/dev/null", but again I'm clueless about the ">" does. And why does displaying the content of "installed.log" fix my problem with installing frog in the first place?

[leadgolem]

Hmm, that's kinda creepy. I just finished writing my own setup script. Frog is better though.

[PeTzZz]

Moved to How-To Articles.

[linux_paul]

rpm -q frog
which frog
rpm -e frog

This wouldn't help because the FedoraFrog is just a script, not an RPM package.

As a noobie I am curious about exactly what I was doing with pwiesen's code. I figured out the "cd ~/.frog"... I'm changing the directory to /.frog (not sure what the "~" represents however). And from doing a little research I've figured out that "cat" is the command to display the file "installed.log" located in "/dev/null", but again I'm clueless about the ">" does. And why does displaying the content of "installed.log" fix my problem with installing frog in the first place?

Your right, cat does display the contents of a file. This code 'redirects' the output of /dev/null to the file installed.log, overwritting any previous content. /dev/null is nothing so it blanked the file.

Oh and ~ is a shortcut for your home directory.