Paul Davis wrote: > ... >> Of course. One needs to write an install program, it's as simple as that. > > yes, so simple that even on win32, companies make a living doing *just* > install programs. how simple is it to write the equivalent of > installshield for linux?
The short of it is that you don't need to. A quick search on Freshmeat or Google will yield several existing solutions that work on Linux and other OS's. One that my company developed to support multiple Linux/UNIX OS's is EPM, available (for free) at: http://www.easysw.com/epm/ -- ______________________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike at easysw dot com Internet Printing and Publishing Software http://www.easysw.com _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list Desktop_architects@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects