ND-AUTOINSTALL(1)

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version 0.43.1 · 5 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 nd-autoinstall — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual for nd-autoinstall, aka section 1 of the manuals, and honestly? it's giving "lazy little helper that just wants your app to WORK". lowkey iconic. let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

nd-autoinstall — install (if necessary) and run an application 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

nd-autoinstall [options] COMMAND [command_options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the whole vibe: it runs the COMMAND if that command is already available. If it's not available, it installs PACKAGE first, and then runs the command. no drama, no tears.

And if you specified an environment file, that file gets sourced first. (And if the environment file isn't available? yeah, PACKAGE gets installed. it's fine. we adapt. 💅)

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -p, --package=PACKAGE — the name of the package to install, for when it's named differently than COMMAND. because of course it is.
  • -e, --environment-file=FILE — the file to be sourced before the COMMAND gets invoked. if it's not found, PACKAGE gets installed first.
  • -f, --force — skips all the checks and installs the package(s) you handed over via --package. zero questions asked, main character energy 🔥
  • -F, --file=FILE — if that specified file isn't present, install PACKAGE and run the COMMAND.
  • -v, --verbose — turns on extra progress messages, for the girlies who need to know everything that's happening at all times.
  • -t, --title — optional title for the installation dialog.
  • -h, --help — prints a short description, the usage summary and the option list. the classic.
  • --version — prints version information and dips out.

🌸 Exit status 🌸

  • exit status of the COMMAND — when COMMAND is available (or got successfully installed) 💖
  • 2 — incorrect invocation of nd-autoinstall
  • 3 — PACKAGE installation failure 😭
fr fr, if you see a 2 or a 3, that's not the command talking. that's nd-autoinstall itself telling you something went sideways.

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Written by Yaroslav Halchenko for the NeuroDebian project. 👑

Copyright © 2010 Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>

Licensed under GNU Public License version 3 or later. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

no cap, that warranty line is doing a lot of heavy lifting. read it. respect it. 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was nd-autoinstall version 0.1, dated February 2026, and that's the ND-AUTOINSTALL(1) manual — tysm for reading, mwah 💋

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