I'm doing a script which installs a tcl plugin.
But this tcl plugin require some additional tcl/tk libraries, so I was thinking about putting an APT-GET install command for installing these libraries.
Is there a way to use the APT-GET install command in a script (it can be Shell script, Perl or even Tcl)?
This is an example of how to do it with one line and assumes you are running the script with sudo
or have appropriate privilege.
apt-get -qq update && apt-get -qq --yes --force-yes install tcl
-qq
suppresses output unless an error occurs
--yes
answers the prompt 'Do you want to continue? [Y/n]'
--force-yes
installs packages that come from a private repository
Consider running apt-get update &
earlier in the script. Check or wait for the job to finish before using apt-get install
You can list multiple packages on one line. Packages are installed in the order they are listed.