port Amiga's Installer to Linux! End the pain!

[adolescent]

There is a standard way...  Every package I've ever tried to install has been the standard configure && make && make install.  Works 99% of the time, unless a dependency isn't met.  

If you're talking about RPMs, they are platform/distribution dependant.  You wouldn't expect to install software for a Sparc on your i586 would you?  If you want to make sure it works with your distro then get the SRPM.

[adolescent]

bhoggett wrote:

That's the point though. Installation from source tarball does not address "dependancy hell". You still have to chase up all the required software yourself, make sure you have the right versions, and ensure you're not going to conflict with anything already installed. This gets out of hand very easily when you have to upgrade x to make y work but then need to upgrade z to work properly with the upgraded x, etc...

And porting the Amiga Installer would not address this.  The supplied package managers address dependecies very well.  I think what the original poster wants is Windows style installer (perhaps he's afraid to ask?) that includes all neccessary libs in the setup package.  That or more staticly linked binaries.  I dont see either happening anytime soon.  

[adolescent]

The package that converts RPM to DEB files is alien.  Although, I've never used Debian so I have no experience with it.