Create a installation script

It would be nice to have a installation script that users – especially those completely new to Node.js – can use to quickly get up and running.

Example:

curl -o- https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs/misc/install.sh | bash

(Note: Just an example! The above does not currently exist!)

The script should try to work on most popular *nix environments. Windows will require something else…

[davestephens]

I guess we need to decide how far the script should go with helping out a newbie getting their system up to scratch. All popular *nix distributions will have Python installed by default, as well as all the usual bins you need like grep, which, etc which are “just there”. I’d argue that if you were tinkering with BSD then you’re a bit beyond a newbie and just saying “hey, you’re missing abc package” and exiting is enough.

So here’s an overview:

• Check Python, git, curl etc, exit with a hint to fix if not available
• Check for / install nvm
• Install Node 4.4.x
• Get Enigma
• nvm install
• Run config generator

…anything obvious I’m missing here?

On 16 August 2016 at 00:30, Bryan Ashby [e-mail] wrote:

Ah you’re right, Python is required for node-gyp https://github.com/nwjs/nw-gyp, which is what builds the sqlite3 binary.

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[davestephens]

I’m gonna have a stab at this, I was thinking about doing it anyway just so I can reinstall if/when my Pi dies…