automating an installation using Perl?

[kesava81]

Hi, All,

I am a perl novice..and I was wondering if there is anyway that a product installation can be automated using perl.

Here is the scenario I am talking about.

Take a product and start the installation on Unix...in the Console mode
For each response, we should be able to provide a response, by reading it from a file.

Is this actually possible through perl?

Regards,
Deekshit

[kesava81]

Hi, All,

I am a perl novice..and I was wondering if there is anyway that a product installation can be automated using perl.

Here is the scenario I am talking about.

Take a product and start the installation on Unix...in the Console mode
For each response, we should be able to provide a response, by reading it from a file.

Is this actually possible through perl?

Regards,
Deekshit

Is there a module similar to Win32:GUITest on Unix/Linux?
If so, can I get the module name please...

Thanks,
Deekshit

[KevinADC]

Your question is not clear to me, but look into the Expect module.

[rohitbasu77]

no idea have to check.. for some module... at cpan

[kesava81]

ok Kevin...let me try to make it more clear...
On a Unix machine, have you tried to install any program in Console mode? basically this is the mode where you do not have a GUI screen to work with during the install, so the installation is all text based.

Now the installer asks you questions like "Product installation location" and you enter a response for that as /home/oracle or something of that sort...
I want to write a script which will help automate this entire process for the user responses...believe me if we can do that it will save a lot of time during the QA Testing cycle

Regards,
Deekshit

[KevinADC]

Now the installer asks you questions like "Product installation location" and you enter a response for that as /home/oracle or something of that sort...
I want to write a script which will help automate this entire process for the user responses...

Regards,
Deekshit

That is what the Expect module does.

http://search.cpan.org/~rgiersig/Expect-1.21/Expect.pod

There is also Expect::Simple which is hopefully simpler to use than Expect. I have never used either of them myself.

[kesava81]

great Kevin!

Thanks a lot..I will try that module and see how it works for my script

Thanks again.

Deekshit

[kesava81]

Thanks for the tip Kevin...the Expect module works super!