Nixstaller 0.5.1

Nixstaller project can easily make installers for Unix-like systems.

Nixstaller can be fully translated and is programmed in C++ and sh.

Configuration:

· Ofcourse can nixstaller be configured;
· Can use either gzip or bzip2 to compress the files
· You can specify which frontends you want to be included
· A way to specify which frontends for which Operating Systems should be included
· Extraction directory can be specified: Specified by the user, to a default directory(IE for binaries), temporary(IE for compiling the package)
· A way to specify any shell commands that will be executed after the files are extracted. You can also specify the used parameters for each command(IE --prefix for './configure') so that the user can configure them before the installation begins. This feature is especially handy for compiling a package on the user's system.

How it works:

· When creating the installer a self extractable archive will be created (powered by makeself). The only thing the user has to do is running this script, it then will do:
· Extract some required files for the graphical frontends(configuration file, translations, archive containing the files to be installed(this is not extracted before installation) etc). · Default the files will go in a subdirectory on /tmp.
· Search for the right frontend(depending on which are included, if X is running etc).
· Launch this frontend.
· Clean the files used by the installer.

Requirements:

· Additional libraries used by the frontends(such as ncurses, CDK, FLTK etc) are all linked statically. Some system libraries(libm, libc) or the X libraries are kept dynamic, since some functions need runtime support and these libraries don't change that often anyway.
· This simply means that the end user hardly needs to worry about any dependencies.
· Note that it's possible to supply different binaries for different OSes/architectures/libc's.


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Here are some key features of "Nixstaller":

· Can be translated(no UTF yet). Dutch and English translations are supplied by default
· Screen where the user can choose the language
· Optional intro screen with customizable image and text
· Optional screen where a user have to accept a license agreement
· Optional screen where the user has to select a destination directory
· Optional screen where the user can set parameters used by installation commands
· Installation progress screen
· Optional screen which appears when the installation is done

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This release fixes several bugs such as missing Large File Support for Linux x86 / Solaris. It also features new Polish translations.