Multiload-ng extras

This file describes contents of extras subdirectory in Multiload-ng source.

Contents

• checkinstall - Generate Debian, Slackware or RPM packages through checkinstall
• pacman - Generate PKGBUILD for all variants of Multiload-ng
• portage - Ready to use Gentoo ebuilds

checkinstall

Generate Debian, Slackware or RPM packages through checkinstall

Debian packages are used on Debian and its derivatives, Ubuntu and its derivatives, Linux Mint, and so on.

RPM packages are used on Red Hat Linux, Fedora, Mandriva, SuSe, OpenSUSE, PCLinuxOS, Mageia, and so on.

Prerequisites

You will need make executable. Since you will have to build Multiload-ng before creating package, you already have it.

You will also need checkinstall executable. It's likely that you will have to install it. Refer to your distribution documentation to install checkinstall.

Usage

First, configure and build Multiload-ng with desired options. Detailed instructions are in main README.

Then, cd into extras/checkinstall directory, and execute:

• make deb-package to generate Debian package
• make slack-package to generate Slackware package
• make rpm-package to generate RPM package

Below there are the methods to install generated packages (you might need to run these as root):

• dpkg -i <package.deb> to install Debian package
• installpkg <package.tgz> to install Slackware package
• rpm -i <package.rpm> to install Slackware package

pacman

Generate PKGBUILD for all variants of Multiload-ng

Prerequisites

For creating PKGBUILDs, there is no prerequisite. Every Linux distro with a Bash shell is just fine. wget, when present, allows to include MD5 sums in generated PKGBUILDs, but it's optional.

Obviously, in order to use generated PKGBUILDs, you will need Pacman (default package manager in Arch Linux and its derivatives)

Usage

Simply cd into extras/pacman directory and execute included script:
./generate-pkgbuild-files.sh

The script will run for a while, and then will generate several PKGBUILD files with meaningful names, for each plugin/GTK+ version combination.

Script will generate PKGBUILDs for both last release and lastest git code.

For generating only one specific PKGBUILD, automatic generation of .SRCINFO, and so on, run the script with -h option for details about available options:
./generate-pkgbuild-files.sh -h

After generation, create packages for desired configurations with makepkg:
cd <desired_plugin_directory>; makepkg

Install created packages with pacman (you might need to run as root):
pacman -U <package.pkg.tar.gz>

portage

Ready to use Gentoo ebuilds

Prerequisites

You will need Portage (default package manager in Gentoo Linux and its derivatives).

Usage

First, cd into extras/portage/x11-misc/multiload-ng directory. Now, generate the Manifest:
for i in *.ebuild; do ebuild $i manifest; done

Now you can install Multiload-ng of desired version (you might need to run as root):
ebuild multiload-ng-<version>.ebuild merge

There is also a live ebuild, which fetches always lastest git code.

These files are ready to be included as-is in your local overlay, if you have one! Just copy whole x11-misc directory right under overlay root directory (and maybe chown portage).