Graphical Installer for Source Packages
It seems to be easy for anyone to do something like this:
#!/bin/bash
tar -xvzf someapp-src.tar.gz
cd someapp-src
./configure
make
sudo make install
But reality says that we are wrong (at least for the average user), so why not implement a graphical installer for source packages?
This could be risky sometimes, but install a .deb package obtained from a doubty place is too; even so, you can install a .deb with a couple of clicks anyway. Of course, the user must be warned about what is he doing and you have to offer him a way to be award of console messages.
It would be great if it could handle deps as well. Could be a front-end for apt-get source code to compile any source file to a .deb package and install it.
If all of this sounds to difficult to make it real, at least a simple app that transparently executes the steps described above and returns a [succeed|error] message and parse the console error line.
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