apt-get with linux

Is there an apt-get command for installing TLA software on linux? I see the linux download and installer, but is there a repo access method?

No,there isn’t, unfortunately. Just like ELAN is not distributed (yet) via the (App) Stores of the other platforms.
This is on the wish list but we don’t have the resources to really implement it.

-Han

I’m a Debian package maintainer. If any guidelines can be provided regarding how to compile the source package on Linux, I can build and upload ELAN into Debian repository. From the Debian repos ELAN will eventually trickle down to all other Debian based distros (Ubuntu and it’s like).

Well, the sources of ELAN can be downloaded and can be built if Java and Maven are installed (some guidelines can be found in the source package). But after compiling and building the “jar” we use an old version of InstallAnywhere to create the installer.
So maybe the structure of the folder into which ELAN is installed is the best source of information? (The ELAN installer puts everything in the install folder and nothing in the more or less standard Linux directories).

Wow, if the .deb package could be created that would be awesome.

@Han, The .deb package is the preferred way (at least in my opinion), but I have been thinking, and perhaps another way to do this would be to give the latest version of ELAN a stable URL. For instance what WordPress does is always makes the URI https://www.wordpress.org/latest.zip the latest full public release. This makes scripting the acquisition of the software easier. I mean, if there were something like www.tla.mpi.nl/elan/linux-elan-latest.bin

My particular task is that I am often setting up a linux based distro with ELAN and other linguistic software. So I am looking to script the acquisition of needed packages. Something stable would help me in my process.

A stable URL pointing to the latest release should be doable, I guess, I made a note of that.

Please do get in touch with user 128 so that a Debian package can be compiled and placed into the Debian repository. That would greatly simplify user installation issues.