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tbtool: Support installing apt dependencies in the tingapp bundle #44
Description
Some tingbot apps will require system-level software to be installed, via apt or dpkg. While it's possible to write this into the program itself, it would be neater to design a declarative format (similar to requirements.txt) for this purpose.
Design goals
- Simple to write
- Declarative format - it should be possible to quickly check for the presence of packages on the system, to avoid a slow
apt-get updatecall on app launch
Activity
[-]tbtool: Support installing apt dependencies in the tingapp format[/-][+]tbtool: Support installing apt dependencies in the tingapp bundle[/+]njh commentedon Sep 29, 2016
My bbcradio tingbot app uses mpg123. Would be great to be able to specify this as a dependency.
It also requires some re-configuration to make it play out of USB speakers.
Might be better to detect or provide an user-option to choose an output device, but wanted to avoid making the code too complex.
furbrain commentedon Dec 20, 2016
also, my DNLA player/browser/controller will use mplayer - would be nice to have a neat way to install this.