Can this be acheived?

Jedi22 · 20th January 2007, 13:24

EDIT2: Sorry about this. I think this will be easier.

If this is any easier, this is what has been discussed between our group. We don't want to lose valuable internet traffic, so is it possible to write an installer program that does the following.

User downloads installer program, again, nothing to "install" as such inside this. User downloads individual packages or modules inside zip files from our site, and drops these into the main installer folder. The installer, when run, knows where to look for these using environment variables \Packages, and the user clicks install and boom, the packages they have downloaded are run silently then the original zips are deleted from the system.

Or, the user can run this wrapper program and browse for an individual package, which the wrapper then installs. The wrapper then deletes the original package file.

This can be repeated again for different packages they download.

Any ideas?

Joel · 20th January 2007, 19:41

Plugins: NSISdl & ZipDLL.
Instructions: IfFileExists, CopyFile, Delete.

Jedi22 · 21st January 2007, 03:46

Thanks Joel, that makes things a bit clearer.

The only thing is, the installer "wrapper" must be able to recognise packages dynamically, will ifFileExists cover that??

I'll have a read up about that function tomorrow.

20th January 2007, 13:24	#1
Jedi22 Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2	Components Installer EDIT2: Sorry about this. I think this will be easier. If this is any easier, this is what has been discussed between our group. We don't want to lose valuable internet traffic, so is it possible to write an installer program that does the following. User downloads installer program, again, nothing to "install" as such inside this. User downloads individual packages or modules inside zip files from our site, and drops these into the main installer folder. The installer, when run, knows where to look for these using environment variables \Packages, and the user clicks install and boom, the packages they have downloaded are run silently then the original zips are deleted from the system. Or, the user can run this wrapper program and browse for an individual package, which the wrapper then installs. The wrapper then deletes the original package file. This can be repeated again for different packages they download. Any ideas? Last edited by Jedi22; 20th January 2007 at 14:37.

20th January 2007, 19:41	#2
Joel Debian user (Forum King) Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Arch land Posts: 4,917	Plugins: NSISdl & ZipDLL. Instructions: IfFileExists, CopyFile, Delete. * PC: Intel Core 2 DUO E6550 @ 2.33 GHz with 2 GB RAM: Archlinux-i686 with MATE. * Laptop: Intel Core 2 DUO T6600 @ 2.20 GHz with 4 GB RAM: Archlinux-x86-64 with MATE.

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21st January 2007, 03:46	#3
Jedi22 Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2	Thanks Joel, that makes things a bit clearer. The only thing is, the installer "wrapper" must be able to recognise packages dynamically, will ifFileExists cover that?? I'll have a read up about that function tomorrow.