An installer is a computer program responsible for installing other computer programs (aka software) on a system.

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MacPorts - Quick Install Script

I wrote this script to automatically install the relevant version of MacPorts. It's supposed to be used in a fashion similar to the official installer for HomeBrew. FYI: The real reason that I ...
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Bash script to determine a distro, update, upgrade and install the apps I use

This is my first bash script. I am trying to learn scripting and needed an idea. This is the first idea I came up with. When I used to distro hop I had to reinstall everything. This helped me out once ...
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Destroy script for provisioning

Script intended to remove Vault & Consul setup before run re-provision them on server. This is my first Ruby script, so will be perfect to see my mistakes here. ...
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Automated owncloud installation script

Here is a shell script which installs and configure owncloud on a Debian server. It also installs apache2 and MySQL as dependencies and fail2ban with a specific rule for owncloud. Apache2 is also ...
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Dockerfile to install Apache

I'm getting started with Docker, and I've set up a very simple image built from a Dockerfile. It's based FROM the ubuntu image, ...
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Sh script to reduce version number in opkg status file

I have written a script to reduce/lower the version number stored in opkg status file using small shell script, This will enable us to force the opkg to install same version of a Debian package again. ...
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An installer for shell scripts, written in pure sh

I wrote a tiny shell script that basically installs a script into your system by copying it to someplace like /usr/local/bin, chmodding it, and adding it to your ...
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Automating a WordPress install

I do not have a whole lot to do over winter break, so I wrote this little script to automate a Wordpress install (currently can only install once instance) on a fresh Debian server (tested, working ...
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Package management system

A short time ago, I discovered the LinuxFromScratch project. After getting a system up and working (after much struggling), I realized that if I wanted to continue using LFS, some sort of package ...
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Installation script for Mac OS tool

I have a bash script I'm trying to distribute to people in my class. The script requires some dependencies to operate, namely wkhtmltopdf and ...
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Installing and removing kernel module RPMs

First, the script checks to see if it is installing two kernel module packages or removing them by looking at the first parameter. If no parameter is provided it complains and exits. If installing, ...
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Bash script that checks if font is installed and installs it if necessary

This checks if a font is installed by using fc-list and grep. If the particular font is not installed, it offers to install it ...
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Listing an optional Python dependency in setup.py

I have a small project that requires a third-party module that's rarely updated (once every other year or so) and not maintained by any package management system. The context, here, is cognitive ...
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Powershell Windows Service Deployment

Based on this with a couple of changes. Any issues you can point out would be great. param([string]$targetServer, [string]$user, [string]$pass) ...
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Building/installing bash script

I'm writing a bash script that has these goals: to build a node program from sources to install the built program on Ubuntu Linux to allow the user to rebuilt from most recent sources to add a ...
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Ruby install script; packages+installs as a .deb or .rpm from source

Is this bad practice? Also, how can it be improved? ...
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Installing “mods” with Python

A little disclaimer: you're going to have a field day with this. It's horrible. Looking at it makes me want to vomit, and don't ask me to explain it, because I've long forgotten what I was thinking ...
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Symlinking shared libraries from a platform-specific directory

We have a setup script for setting up a development environment, and setting up the image libraries is getting a bit messy: ...