Building Addons for the DBF Image...

[spacy]

Hello Guys.

just an idea from me if anybody wants to help us building addons for the dbf image.

so here is a short description of our xml addon installer ;-)

This is an example install.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<install>
<addon type="emu"/>
<dir permissions="755" make="/var/tuxbox/Installer/emu_dccamd" />
<cpfile permissions="755" from="/var/tmp/Installer/dccamd" to="/var/bin/dccamd" />
<cpfile permissions="755" from="/var/tmp/Installer/install.xml" to="/var/tuxbox/Installer/emu_dccamd/install.xml" />
<cpfile permissions="755" from="/var/tmp/Installer/emulist.xml" to="/var/tuxbox/Installer/emu_dccamd/emulist.xml" />
</install>

it must be named install.xml !

The files you want to install must be located in a folder "Installer"
which needs to get packed into the addon.tar.gz

now copy it as addon.tar.gz to /var/tmp/ and use the manual installer ;-)

what does it ?

was macht es ?
creates the folder emu_dccamd fo the uninstaller.
copies the install.xml and emulist.xml into the uninstall folder . Important !
else it wont get uninstalled.stall !
copies the dccamd to var/bin
after this the emulist.xml gets integrated into the one inside var/tuxbox/config and updates the entry.

you see. its easy to make addons ;-)

one more example ?

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<install>
<addon type="locale"/>
<dir permissions="755" make="/var/tuxbox/Installer/locales_tr" />
<dir permissions="755" make="/var/share/locale/tr" />
<dir permissions="755" make="/var/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES" />
<cpfile permissions="755" from="/var/tmp/Installer/tuxbox-enigma.mo" to="/var/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/tuxbox-enigma.mo" />
<cpfile permissions="755" from="/var/tmp/Installer/install.xml" to="/var/tuxbox/Installer/locales_tr/install.xml" />
<add language="Turkish tr_TR" />
</install>

This one adds the turkish locale entry to the locale.alias

 <start auto="/hdd/nfs/nfs.sh start" />

this one append the string in auto to the /var/etc/init

Possible Addon types are:

emu, key, plugin, locale, fun, skin

more will come if needed.


Some more intresting points.

when installing addons of the type emu or keys.
the emudaemon switches back to Common Interface and after the installation back to your last active emu.

so its possible to update the running emu and keys without restart.


Some Points to the Addon remover.

this one uses the the on beginnig copied install.xml and emulist.xml and reverts this.

IMPORTANT: dont create Folders that already exist like /var/bin

you get the point ? ;-)

thats for now..

It will be a pleasure for me adding your builded addons to our online List.

Greetz

Spacy

[Nemesis_]

The addon.tar.gz to /tmp/ feature is very user-friendly but i would like to make it even more easy for my friends....

Due to the problems with your download server I've made my own usermenu and would like to point this one to my own server and from this menu also install the addons.. (without having to go to the "Extras" menu.....)

What script is being executed when doing a "Install Addons manually" ??

Best regards
Nemesis

[spacy]

Originally Posted by Nemesis_

The addon.tar.gz to /tmp/ feature is very user-friendly but i would like to make it even more easy for my friends....

Due to the problems with your download server I've made my own usermenu and would like to point this one to my own server and from this menu also install the addons.. (without having to go to the "Extras" menu.....)

What script is being executed when doing a "Install Addons manually" ??

Best regards
Nemesis

@Nemesis

whow sorry somehow overlooked this post ;-)

when u got the addon.tar.gz already in /tmp/
just unpack it on the shell with a tar xzvf addon.tar.gz
and after this just call /bin/setup.exe ;-)

and the addon gets installed ;-)


Greetz

[Nemesis_]

Originally Posted by spacy

@Nemesis

whow sorry somehow overlooked this post ;-)

when u got the addon.tar.gz already in /tmp/
just unpack it on the shell with a tar xzvf addon.tar.gz
and after this just call /bin/setup.exe ;-)

and the addon gets installed ;-)


Greetz

Laugh out loud!! you can't imagine how many different ways i've tried do fix this problem.... .../bin/setup.exe...

THANK YOU Spacy!!..

[mils1]

Hi all. just got my dreambox. i'm trying to install an addon. ive placed in the the /tmp directory and extracted it.

but then I see I need to run /bin/setup.exe. well my dreambox 500s doesn't have that file in the /bin. Any ideas? (new to linux)

[disisdavo]

dont extract the addon. place the tar.gz file in /tmp as is.
the image will extract and place in the correct places, providing its created corectly.

davo