[GRASS-dev] GEM Wizard question

[Maris Nartiss]

Hi,

I'm not following GEM development and thus have two silly questions:
1) isn't possible to install additional modules via GEM into user's
home directory (as option)? Thus it could be made as easy as
installing some addons to Firefox.
2) if getting superuser support for GUI right is lot of work, could
some GUI wizard just generate some commandline expression that could
be just pasted into terminal by user as last step to run it via su or
sudo?

Just my 0.02.
Maris.


2007/5/21, Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de>:
> I guess it wouldn't be too much trouble. GEM already has all that's
> needed for this: zipped extension packages can be downloaded (using
> wget), unzipped (to system's temp dir) and installed automatically.
> There is just one catch: since all files are installed into system-wide
> locations, the wizard will probably need superuser rights. So a tcl/tk
> based install wizard needs to provide a way to get the superuser
> password and run system commands with elevated rights.
>
> It would be a cool thing to have, I agree.
>
> Ben
>
> Yann wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Would it be possible to create a kind of Wizard to assist
> > download/install of extensions with GEM?
> >
> > 1-locate GEM enabled extensions (http://wiki...)
> > 2-Download in ~/tmp
> > 3-run gem on it
> >
> > Yann
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