First time user experience of netrexx 3.02 install jar onto Ubuntu (on a beaglebone) via ssh

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First time user experience of netrexx 3.02 install jar onto Ubuntu (on a beaglebone) via ssh

kenner

1.) "press 1" is little misleading as pressing one does nothing. Perhaps "enter 1", or "type 1 and press enter". picky I know.

 

2.) select target path defaults to right where you started, bad. I hit 1 and thank god was warned about what I was about to do.

Better: only accept an empty directory, make up a default if you must, eg: /bin/netrexx/

 

3. )Now I'm looking at:

 

Select the packs you want to install:

[<required>] Config (The NetRexx system configuration file)
[<required>] Scripts (NetRexx command line scripts)
[x] Documentation (NetRexx User Guide and Language Reference)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:

 

 

I have no clue what to do here. 

 

Select the packs you want to install:

[<required>] Config (The NetRexx system configuration file)
[<required>] Scripts (NetRexx command line scripts)
[x] Documentation (NetRexx User Guide and Language Reference)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:
   
[x] Examples (NetRexx sample code)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:

[<required>] Translator (The NetRexx compiler)
[<required>] Runtime (The NetRexx runtime library)
[x] Tools (NetRexx support tools)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:
1

...pack selection done.
press 1 to continue, 2 to quit, 3 to redisplay
3

Select the packs you want to install:

[<required>] Config (The NetRexx system configuration file)
[<required>] Scripts (NetRexx command line scripts)
[x] Documentation (NetRexx User Guide and Language Reference)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:
1
[x] Examples (NetRexx sample code)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:
1
[<required>] Translator (The NetRexx compiler)
[<required>] Runtime (The NetRexx runtime library)
[x] Tools (NetRexx support tools)
input 1 to select, 0 to deselect:
1

...pack selection done.
press 1 to continue, 2 to quit, 3 to redisplay

 

very confusing. Unlike anything I have ever seen and I have seen a lot of dumb terminal cli installations.

 

Not even sure what I did, I meant to just accept it all. Maybe a single yes/no prompt for each individual "pack" (what's a pack) and info msg for <required> would be less confusing.

 

what is a "pack"?

 

[ Starting to unpack ]
[ Processing package: Config (1/7) ]
[ Processing package: Scripts (2/7) ]
[ Processing package: Documentation (3/7) ]
[ Processing package: Examples (4/7) ]
[ Processing package: Translator (5/7) ]
[ Processing package: Runtime (6/7) ]
[ Processing package: Tools (7/7) ]
[ Unpacking finished ]
Install was successful
application installed on /root/netrexx
[ Console installation done ]

 

 

Cool. Looks like I did it. But did the install tweak my PATH and CLASSPATH or at least tell me what it will need to be? Huh?

 

Ooops, no, not even close. I guess it's back to the README.

Nice would be to guide the newbe over  the whole path/classpath hurdle as it will stymie any less than veteran java wannabe, like me.

OpenJDK 1.7

Respectfully and thankfully,

Ken K



 

 


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