Sanity Installer

A command-line tool for generating 32-bit and 64-bit binary installers (*.run) for software. Installer is packaged using makeself with gzip compression. It can install files, dependency packages, and execute pre/post-install scripts. Supports distributions based on Debian (apt), Arch (pacman) and Fedora (yum).

Usage

1. Set up pbuilder on an Ubuntu-based distribution
2. Set up a build environment for building Vala files

sudo apt install gdebi aptitude curl pigz pv diffuse geany geany-plugins valac build-essential pbuilder autotools-dev automake libgtk-3-dev libgee-0.8-dev libsoup2.4-dev libjson-glib-dev makeself

3. Build and install Sanity by running sh build-stubs.sh && make all && sudo make install-all .
4. Check installed version: sanity --version
5. Create a project folder <basepath>
6. Copy files for installation to path <basepath>/files. Contents of this directory will be copied to filesystem root / by the installer.
7. Create text file named sanity.config in basepath. A sample file is shown below:

app_name: Aptik
depends_debian:  libgee-0.8-2 libjson-glib-1.0-0 rsync
depends_redhat:  libgee json-glib rsync
depends_arch:    libgee json-glib rsync
depends_generic: libgee json-glib rsync
assume_yes: 0
exec_line: pkexec aptik

8. (Optional) Place pre-install and post-install scripts in <basepath>. Scripts should be named preinst.sh and postinst.sh .

9. Generate installers using syntax:

   sanity --generate --base-path <basepath> --out-path ./ --arch i386
   sanity --generate --base-path <basepath> --out-path ./ --arch amd64
   

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