We've been working on a website for browsing (rating, commenting, etc) available applications for Fedora. As part of that we wanted to be able to install/run software from the website. I spent the last day hacking up a quick browser plugin: If the package is not installed but is available in the package repository, the plugin will show: +------------------------------------+ | _Install GNU Backgammon Now_ | | Version: 20061119-14.fc9 | +------------------------------------+ Click on the plugin, and it will fire off gpk-install-package to install the package; the display changes to: +------------------------------------+ | GNU Backgammon | | Installing... | +------------------------------------+ once that is done (or if the package was already installed), the plugin will show: +------------------------------------+ | _Run GNU Backgammon_ | | Installed version: 20061119-14.fc9 | +------------------------------------+ Given wide usage of PackageKit and availability of the plugin, this could also be pretty neat to put on third-party project pages. The information you provide as parameters to the plugin is: The name of the application for display A list of possible package names A list of possible desktop file names for the application So it should be pretty robust against inter-distro differences in package names. README File: http://git.fishsoup.net/cgit/packagekit-plugin/tree/README Getting the source: git clone git://git.fishsoup.net/packagekit-plugin What do people think... does this make sense as part of the PackageKit project? - Owen -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
