Best approach to writing a generic installer for a Linux application?

Question

We have a Linux server application that is comprised of a number of open-source tools as well as programs we\'ve written ourselves. Ideally we would like to be able to install t

Answer 1

I tried Autopackage a few years ago, don't know how universal it is but worked quite well (was the only truly universal way back then). Surely you have to provide some LSB-compatible ways of setting up proper directories on your own, but this piece of software should help you.

Though there's probably still too much diversity among linux distributions to do everything in a completely platform-agnostic way but I may be wrong.