Dear monks, After the hard work of creating a GUI with perl/Tk I have to create an installation script for it. I thought that a good way would be to write an sh script checking the existence of perl, tk (and their versions) as well as some other programs. The script could also copy the .pl file to /usr/local/bin, and its .pm and help files at a different directory.The problem is that I do not know how to do these steps and whether they are the appropriate. One further problem is that I have a very limited amount of time for completing this task :(. Any suggestions??? Thank you very much!

update: Forgot to mention some information:

1) script working on Linux

2) I do not necessary need a binary version, just a way to check if some libraries and programs exist in the users system.

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