This How To will cover creating a shell script that contains your installable product inside of it and can be used to install your product on a target machine. This is essentially one file that contains both the files to install and the install logic within it. You'll need a few tools to start off with, namely

uuencode

and

uudecode

These are historical unix tools. From the wikipedia page, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencode

Java applications with graphical user interfaces still don't play well with compositing window managers such as Compiz or Compiz-Fusion. Frequently the java application window will open, but remain blank. Fortunately, the fix for this is relatively simple. Exporting the variable "AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit" before running the jvm will fix this problem. If your java application has a menu entry or a desktop icon, you can make the necessary changes to the properties of the .desktop file by specifying the command as

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3pm)
Updated: 2008-06-16
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NAME

DBI - Database independent interface for Perl  

SYNOPSIS

  use DBI;

  @driver_names = DBI->available_drivers;
  %drivers      = DBI->installed_drivers;
  @data_sources = DBI->data_sources($driver_name, \%attr);

  $dbh = DBI->connect($data_source, $username, $auth, \%attr);

  $rv  = $dbh->do($statement);
  $rv  = $dbh->do($statement, \%attr);
  $rv  = $dbh->do(

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (1)
Updated: 2007-12-18
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NAME

perlre - Perl regular expressions  

DESCRIPTION

This page describes the syntax of regular expressions in Perl.

If you haven't used regular expressions before, a quick-start introduction is available in perlrequick, and a longer tutorial introduction is available in perlretut.

For reference on how regular expressions are used in matching operations, plus various examples of the same, se

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (1)
Updated: 2008-12-23
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NAME

perlfunc - Perl builtin functions  

DESCRIPTION

The functions in this section can serve as terms in an expression. They fall into two major categories: list operators and named unary operators. These differ in their precedence relationship with a following comma.

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (1)
Updated: 2008-12-23
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NAME

perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language  

SYNOPSIS

perl   [ -sTtuUWX ]
        [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ]
        [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ]
        [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ]
        [ -Idir ] [ -m[-]module ] [ -M[-]'module...' ] [ -f ]
        [ -C [number/list] ]
        [ -P ]
        [ -S ]
        [ -x[dir] ]
        [ -i[extension] ]
        [ -e 'command' ] [ -- ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]...
 

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 2006 September 28
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NAME

bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell  

SYNOPSIS

bash [options] [file]  

COPYRIGHT

Bash is Copyright (C) 1989-2005 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.  

DESCRIPTION

Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).