Ubuntu support

[e-orz]

Adds a directory with Ubuntu install script.
Also,

• instructions how to extract the latest ravkav version (a must for some card readers)
• instructions how to use HopOn (for Dan contracts)

[jarondl]

Is this exactly the same file we have in the ArchLinux directory?

[jarondl]

Hi @e-orz,
Thank you for your help with this. Particularly kudos on finding a way to extract the newer jar from the windows installation.
However, I am a bit hesitant about merging it in the current form, because installation scripts shouldn't mess with /usr/bin - this is apt-get's territory.

I think this should be restructured.

1. We need one separate script to download and extract the jar.
2. We need to use the same files for Arch and Ubuntu (I mean the ravkav script and the .desktop file. I guess a common location would be good. Arch can actually download those files in install time.
3. In ubuntu, we can either create a .deb file, or install with a script in the user directory as explained in the readme.
4. Is there a way around wine?

What do you think?

Anyway, thanks again for the PR.
Yaron

[e-orz]

Hi @jarondl,
I agree with you about the restructure. I spent a lot of time investigating the version and the HopOn issues and didn't want the knowledge to get lost. I don't know how to create DEB files or PPA, and I am not sure that I will have the time to learn them in the following weeks. I am not even sure if it's feasible from GitHub or it must be on Launchpad.
My intention was to have the script (working of course) as a guidance for others to create proper installation from them.

About Wine, I really hate the idea of installing so large dependency just to extract the cab file. But Advanced Installer has its own format (I think) and I don't know anything that can extract it.

the DummyRavKav is simple. Normally, the user should give a folder to the extract parameter. If it's an existing Wine folder (e.g. c:) the installer will extract to it. In Wine case it will be somewhere in the Wine profile. It's simpler to give non existing folder and then it extracts it to the current one.

As a simple fast workaround extracting to a user directory should be enough.

What do you think?