This repository has been archived and replaced with https://github.com/yast/the-installer.
This repository is just an experiment to build a web-based installer on top of YaST infrastructure. It is composed of two parts:
- A D-Bus service based on ruby-dbus that exposes a tiny fraction of YaST capabilities.
- An HTTP API (based on Tide and zbus that serves as a proxy for the web UI.
- A web-based UI built with React and friends.
At this point in time, it is not able to do anything useful at all. It just displays a partitioning proposal and a few general options, like product selection and language settings.
Of course, if you press the Install button, nothing happens 😃.
A small YaST D-Bus service is included in the dbus/ directory. Beware that it must run as root
(like YaST does) to do hardware probing and so on. Additionally, you must tell dbus about this
service by just copying dbus/share/dbus-yast2.conf to /etc/dbus-1/system.d/yast2.conf.
To run the service, type:
$ cd yastd
$ sudo ruby bin/yastd
The HTTP API allows accessing to the YaST D-Bus service. It is written in Rust, so you will need to install the compiler. To start the server just type:
$ cd yastd-proxy
$ cargo run
Now start the web-based user interface:
$ cd web
$ npm start
Point your browser to https://localhost:3001 and enjoy!