Bash script for installing packages automatically??

[Techvn]

Hi!
I want to write a Bash script to check (on startup) and install some packages automatically if they are not installed.
Someone helps me please!!!

[scm]

Well, you could use the exit status from "rpm -q packagename >/dev/null 2>&1" to check the presence of packages (it returns 0 (true) if the package you're querying is present and 1 it it's not), and then call yum to get and install them (assuming you're having more success with yum than I am). Put a call to your script in rc.local and you're done!

[Techvn]

Thanks for replying my post, scm!
But I'm using Debian and Ubuntu. Can you tell me how to do that?

[Agent-X]

sudo dpkg -i file.deb