You can use this little script thanks to a friend of mine. It's set for phpBB-2.0.8 forum script. It can be edited to retrieve and untar any script. Just edit the needed lines of code.

It is a real time saver especially if you are on a dial-up connection and no telnet access.

Copy and paste it in "Notepad".

Save as: auto_install.php ... or any name you want.
Upload it with "FTP" not Frontpage ... ascii mode ... in the dir/folder where you want the script.

Call the script with your browser.

http://yourdomain.com/auto_install.php

It will untar all the php forum files.

Set permissions/chmod for files per documentation.

Then run the install ... enter your mysql info.
http://yourdomain.com/folder_name/install/install.php


Auto Install script (http://divedesk.com/temp/auto_install.txt)

Interesting.... does seem like a good script..


Jack...Are you using that script?

Now ... any chance you can explain what the term "Untar" means?

DD

I should have used the term "uncompress".

Here is a link that explains more about the whole process.

http://www.extropia.com/support/faq/whatdoidowithatarfile.html

Jack...Are you using that script?Sure ... I've used it many times installing phpBB forum script.

I haven't actually used for any other scripts, but the process would be the same.

One thing I forgot to mention and this is very important ... the site that you are retreiving the tar files from has to allow "anonymous ftp" like SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/) to work.