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Horde Installer

So I started fiddling on my Horde installer for setting up a webbased webmail solution using the Horde Application Framework and Horde IMP. I got round to automating downloading of the distfiles if they do not exist on the local machine.

===> Extracting for Horde 3.0+Imp 4.0+Ingo 1.0+Kronolith 2.0+Mnemo 2.0+Nag 2.0+Turba 2.0
>> Checksum OK for horde-3.0.tar.gz.
>> Downloading http://ftp.horde.org/pub/imp/imp-h3-4.0.tar.gz
>> Checksum OK for imp-h3-4.0.tar.gz.
>> Checksum OK for ingo-h3-1.0.tar.gz.
>> Checksum OK for kronolith-h3-2.0.tar.gz.
>> Downloading http://ftp.horde.org/pub/mnemo/mnemo-h3-2.0.tar.gz
...snip...

Next set is to start working on the webbased installer so that users can run the script via their webbrowser and then setup and configure various Horde modules and choose which modules that they would like to install.

I'm hoping to have a working solution soon to submit to the horde project so that other people can start hacking on this as well so that we can have a decent horde installer which can be used for multiple tasks as well as choosing your nearest Horde mirror for downloading the tarballs from prior to downloading the modules. It would also need to explain how to securely setup the software to download and have nice screens with help embeded in them for users to follow what to do.