Yes, absolutely. But packaging requires there being a package for your distribution, which means there needs to be a maintainer. There's also Oracle, Atlassian,

Yes, absolutely. But packaging requires there being a package for your distribution, which means there needs to be a maintainer. There's also Oracle, Atlassian, and MySQL Secure Mode (for example) installations that are a pain to automate. Did you look at the readme at all? This isn't meant to be a replacement for apt or for yum, this is a special purpose tool - and I don't expect it to be a universal one. Expect can already do everything my tool does, but in the case of expect, instead of using a simple configuration file, you need to learn how it works and learn the dsl. That being said, there is an expect module for ansible that can handle things in a similar manner: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/expect_module.html http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/expect_module.html, though I would say that the documentation doesn't give a good indication of how to respond to a specific question other than the order in which it's asked. Either way, I hope this is useful to some people, and if not, well, that's cool too. Thanks for the interest either way.