I've never used it, but you might take a look at the Loki Installer. http://www.lokigames.com/development/setup.php3 Jon On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Wade Chandler wrote: > Toralf Lund wrote: > > > Sean Estabrooks wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:22:47 +0100 > >> Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> So I'm looking for software that would allow the user to complete the > >>> download and installation in fewer steps and using the GUI only - > >>> possibly by bundling the rpms and an installer front-end in one file. > >> > >> > >> Take a look at Apt and/or Yum utilties. Among other things they'll > >> let a user install a group of related rpms with a single command, > >> automatically resolving dependencies. Apt repositories are > >> accessible with a very nice GUI utility named Synaptic. A user need > >> only tell Synaptic where your archive is located and from then on will > >> have access to any new rpms you publish. Yum works along the same lines > >> but i don't know if it has comparable GUI utilitiy. > >> > >> > > Yes these are nice tools, but not what's required here, I think - as > > long as they're not included in the OS distro and set up automatically > > on install. Relying on them would be just to shift the problem, to put > > it that way; the user would still have to go through a lot of "manual" > > steps to get the system ready to use those tools. > > > > Also, I'm not even sure we can assume that the hosts have direct access > > to our download sites. Our experience is that customers will connect the > > kind of "production" machines we're talking about here only via > > elaborate gateway mechanisms and/or use separate hosts for all Internet > > access. > > > > - Toralf > > > > > > > > > Look at Install Anywhere. This is the tool Borland uses for their products. > > Wade > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
