nightly update script for linux

[alyr]

Hi!
I've made a little script for linux users who want to download the latest nightly versions but are lazy to do it manually. I'm not an expert or anything, so the script is not perfect in any way, i just wanted to make my life easier, and i thought 'why not share it?'.

What it does:
- checks the latest nightly version on the server
- downloads & extracts the latest nightly (in other words it updates OpenTTD) if needed
- stores the version number so later, when you run the script it can check if an update is required

Instructions:
- download openttd_update.txt
- open it with a text editor
- change the line 'directory="$HOME/openttd"' and 'architecture="amd64"' to match your settings and save the file as 'openttd_update' (without extension)
- make the file executable

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chmod +x openttd_update

- move the file to /usr/local/bin

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sudo mv openttd_update /usr/local/bin/

- if you want to update OpenTTD to the latest nightly, just use the "openttd_update" command

You need to have wget, and tar installed for the script to work.

Of course you can do whatever you want with the script, modify as your needs require. Have fun!


Changes:
v3:
- fixed the unpacking to work with tar.xz
- added version info to output

v2:
- curl not needed anymore
- added the option to set system architecture (thx Rubidium)
- the default openttd directory is '$HOME/openttd' (thx Alberth)

[Rubidium]

I reckon you need to make the architecture configurable; not everyone has x86_64. You can furthermore remove the requirement on either curl or wget; they're both the same except for their initial behaviour. One dumping to the console by default, the other dumping to file. But they can both do "the other" thing as well.

Good you used finger.openttd.org though!

[planetmaker]

Have a look at http://wiki.openttd.org/OpenTTD_Updaters and in particular autostart. It will shortly be available again in a public repo, meanwhile here attached as a tar with config templates for the coop servers as well as the current nightly.

[Alberth]

/home/yourname is normally also known as $HOME, except $HOME points to the right home directory for every user.

[alyr]

I reckon you need to make the architecture configurable; not everyone has x86_64. You can furthermore remove the requirement on either curl or wget; they're both the same except for their initial behaviour. One dumping to the console by default, the other dumping to file. But they can both do "the other" thing as well.

Good you used finger.openttd.org though!

Thank you for the advice ( ), i've modified the script (added architecture, removed curl).

Have a look at http://wiki.openttd.org/OpenTTD_Updaters and in particular autostart. It will shortly be available again in a public repo, meanwhile here attached as a tar with config templates for the coop servers as well as the current nightly.

I've seen this script mentioned on the forums (i really do use search), but it was complex enough for me and contained too much servers/revision types so that i decided to make a small script for myself just to try scripting. I really don't want to compete with anyone else, just trying to be constructive.

/home/yourname is normally also known as $HOME, except $HOME points to the right home directory for every user.

Thanks!

[Zuu]

It would be nice if you add a section for your script at the wiki: http://wiki.openttd.org/OpenTTD_Updaters . Put some info there with a link to this thread for specific download/usage info.

[planetmaker]

It's linked on that page. It just links to the svn which is (currently) unavailable for some reason I didn't yet establish.

[Zuu]

It's linked on that page. It just links to the svn which is (currently) unavailable for some reason I didn't yet establish.

I was not refering to autostart, but the script that the thread starter (alyr) has created.

[alyr]

It would be nice if you add a section for your script at the wiki: http://wiki.openttd.org/OpenTTD_Updaters . Put some info there with a link to this thread for specific download/usage info.

I've added a section to the wiki as you advised.

[alyr]

I've updated the script to work with the tar.xz files that openTTD has been using for a while now.