[Live-demo] Addistional packages for workshops

[Pirmin Kalberer]

Astrid, Cameraon,

Booting from USB or VM is preferred, but not required. Installing additional 
packages is also possible when booting from DVD. You're limited by RAM and 
temporary storage and the packages are lost when shutting down. 

Am Dienstag, 7. Februar 2012, 07.20:24 schrieb Astrid Emde:
> Hello,
> 
> Pirmins idea sounds good to me. But Cameron you are right, maybe you do
> not have .deb files or you need additional configuration.
> 
> I thought about additional install_workshop_xy.sh in the bin-directory (or
> somewhere else) that will not be installed by default. In case you want to
> run the workshop you could easily install the sofware. The workshop leader
> could administrate the scripts in the svn.

I don't think the OSGeo-live SVN is the best place for administrating workshop 
configurations. A wiki is very easy to use and anybody can publish a 
configuration (even an hour before the workshop starts). I initially planned to 
write a generic installation script, but preferred this solution, because you 
don't need additional software at runtime and can use the browser for 
selecting a workshop. For non-deb packages you can simply add a wiki page with 
installation instructions. The instructions can be as easy as 1. download 
install_workshop_xy.sh and 2. run it with "sudo bash install_workshop_xy.sh"

Pirmin

> 
> On Mon, February 6, 2012 10:02 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> > Pirmin,
> > I think it a is a good idea to create a process which makes it easy for
> > Workshop leaders to be able to add applications to OSGeo-Live.
> > 
> > 
> > I assume that this would be much easier with a USB than with a DVD? Or
> > are you considering having all students have osgeo-live installed on
> > their computer?
> > 
> > I'd be interested to hear if others have comments as to whether Pirmin's
> > proposed method for achieving this is a good one.
> > 
> > If a workshop presenter didn't have a .deb file, what process should
> > they follow for getting an application onto osgeo-live?
> > 
> > Should we be ensuring we have space free on a 4 Gig USB stick to allow
> > installing extra applications? If so, how much? Maybe we will need to
> > ask
> > workshops to hand out 8 Gig USBs instead.
> > 
> > On 07/02/12 00:38, Pirmin Kalberer wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> There is often a demand for installing additional packages for
> >> OSGeo-Live
> >> based workshops. Last FOSS4G I handled this by putting the apt-get
> >> instructions on the blackboard, but you loose always a few minutes
> >> waiting for all participants fixing their typos. Today I got requests
> >> for the coming FOSSGIS in Germany to add packages for certain
> >> workshops.
> >> My proposed solution
> >> for this common request is a new desktop icon, pointing to an
> >> installation page on the OSGeo Wiki [1]. On this page workshop
> >> organizers can add links like apt://qt4-designer which start up the
> >> Gnome Software Center with the
> >> packages automatically selected. This should be easy enough for
> >> workshop
> >> 
> >>  participants to install additional software by themselves.
> >> 
> >> Regards
> >> Pirmin
> >> 
> >> 
> >> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install
> > 
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