Creating a installable user program for different distros

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On 06/08/2009 12:12 PM, Alain Muls wrote:
> Hi
> 
> At our company we have a discussion.
> 
> Currently we develop a Qt4 based program that gets installed on Windows 
> and RedHat. A customer asked for a SuSE version, but my (windows) 
> colleagues are reluctant to create a version for SuSE (and Ubuntu).
> 
> I made the remark that they create a XP, Vista and 7 Windows version, so 
> that creating 3 Linux versions would equal the WIndows job.
> 
> My colleague answered that all window versions were the same :-(
> 
> Is it possible to create 1 version for Linux installable on those 3 
> Linux versions?
> 
> Tx/Alain
> 

Mozilla does this for SeaMonkey, Thunderbird & Firefox. For example:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/candidates-1.1.17/

seamonkey-1.1.17.en-US.linux-i686.installer.tar.gz

Extract & it includes an installer program. Doesn't matter if you're
running debian or redhat.

FireFox example:

<http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0.10/linux-i686/en-US/>
firefox-3.0.10.tar.bz2