treaz
8th January 2003 16:02 UTC

Creating Linux installers?
Can NSIS be used to create Linux installers?
Thanks.

kichik
8th January 2003 16:07 UTC

Nope.

Olomite
1st October 2003 21:20 UTC

Has this changed? If not, is there another great installer out there (like NSIS) that can be used for Linux? What about Solaris?

Thanks!
Lance

Joost Verburg
1st October 2003 21:38 UTC

NSIS is a tool to create Windows installers. You can run the compiler using a emulator or create a Linux port, but you can only create Windows installers. There are so many differences between these platform, especially related to software installation, so you will really need a specific Linux tool.

Olomite
1st October 2003 23:16 UTC

Do you have a suggestion for an installer to use for Linux and or Solaris?

dopey
2nd October 2003 03:33 UTC

olemite check out the loki installer..

http://www.lokigames.com/development/setup.php3
id software plus a few others use this.. It does the job
I think this can be used maybe on solaris aswell im sure it also works on *bsd aint definate about solaris

pjw62
4th October 2003 21:12 UTC

Just a random-drop-by-post;

with hacks, you can (used to be able) compile makensis (provided you have a header precompiled) on FreeBSD but obviously the created installers would only run on winbloze but if you just wanted to create a custom installer from e.g. a php script on your unix box then yes you can