Am 05.03.20 um 02:48 schrieb Michael Torrie:
> On 3/4/20 4:51 PM, J A wrote:
>> I was wondering g if there was a way to distribute an application that took
>> advantage of user input like a windows .msi does. On linux of course.
>
> Several installer frameworks can make interactive installers for Linux.
> There's the NullSoft installer and InstallerVICE. And quite a few
> commercial packages have rolled their own installers. Although I find
> installers of any kind of annoying on Linux and don't seem all that
> necessary.
>
+1!
On Linux, the most reasonable binary distribution is a .tar.bz2 package which
extracts a folder with a startup script. This works on every Linux distribution
and is one of the most common ways for Firefox etc. Of course, if you can
afford to offer several packages, the other recommended way is packages for the
system package manager - but this means it is system-dependent - or the newer
things like flatpak and snap. However the tarball is the thing that always
works, even for me as a user without root access.
Christian
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