just a thought

wounded625 · 06-30-2006, 11:45 PM

how come there is not a proprietary graphical type installer for any linux distro, like the Windows Installer? if there is, how come its not widely used?

wounded625 · 06-30-2006, 11:47 PM

and i don't many anything like a RPM or DEB package, i mean a real proprietary graphical installer

cs-cam · 07-01-2006, 09:55 AM

Why proprietary? There is Anaconda that Redhat and Fedora (plus some others) use which is graphical and all squishy and cuddly.

If you mean for individual apps the there is autopackage which is GUI I think.

IBall · 07-01-2006, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by wounded625

how come there is not a proprietary graphical type installer for any linux distro, like the Windows Installer? if there is, how come its not widely used?

But why do you want one? Most recent distros come with a Graphical package management utility, which will download and install the program you want + any dependencies. For example, Fedora Core 5 has Pirut, Ubuntu and Debian has Synaptic, Suse has Yast ...

--Ian

binary_y2k2 · 07-02-2006, 12:19 AM

Also, it takes 8 clicks and 5 mins to install a windows app with the installer, why would you want that?

IBall · 07-02-2006, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by binary_y2k2

Also, it takes 8 clicks and 5 mins to install a windows app with the installer, why would you want that?

Don't forget the (almost always) reboot

wounded625 · 07-02-2006, 11:04 PM

well i see your points, but your looking at it from the windows perspective of it always rebooting, or taking a long time, it could be just choose the path and install, but with a graphical installer that every distro uses, sort of like the windows installer, or wise installer, i think that if one is made, it would turn more people to linux, because ive gotten turned away from some packages because of how difficult they looked to install, but thats just my thought

cs-cam · 07-02-2006, 11:15 PM

I'll say Autopackage again and hope it sticks this time.

wounded625 · 07-03-2006, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by cs-cam

I'll say Autopackage again and hope it sticks this time.

thanks for that, ive never seen that before, im going to try it

darinbolson · 07-03-2006, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by cs-cam

Why proprietary?

I think maybe he doesn't understand what proprietary means.

binary_y2k2 · 07-04-2006, 01:01 AM

if you don't know what proprietary is, look it up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary

XavierP · 07-04-2006, 03:58 PM

Installshield works under Linux.

Vgui · 07-04-2006, 04:35 PM

I've seen this used before:
http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/

Not really any standard app level GUI installer though. Since each distro has it's own package manager (in most cases) a "click through" installer would be rather pointless.