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Vmware Installbuilder User Guide 21 VMware InstallBuilder User Guide 21 Introduction to InstallBuilder InstallBuilder is a modern, fully-featured, cross-platform installation tool. It is designed to simplify the deployment of both desktop and server software, helping you reduce support costs related to installation and provide a positive end-user experience. This document provides an overview of InstallBuilder capabilities and architecture, as well as in- depth coverage of common installation topics. A companion appendix provides detailed information on each one of the XML configuration options. What Sets InstallBuilder Apart To fully understand the architecture and capabilities of InstallBuilder, it is useful to consider the previous generation of cross-platform installers. These were built using the Java programming language. Java is a fine choice for multiple scenarios and indeed over half of your users use InstallBuilder to package Java-based applications. However, it has a set of major drawbacks when the goal is to create setup programs. For example, it requires a Java runtime environment to be present in the machine, which increases the chances of something going wrong if one is not present or the one present is not a suitable version. Alternatively, if the user decides to bundle a JRE with the installer in order to avoid these potential problems, it will increase significantly the footprint of the installation. Java-based installers also require a self-extraction step, in which the files are first unpacked to disk before installation can begin. For large installers, this can be a time-consuming step and another source of installation-related issues if the end-user runs out of disk space during this process. Finally, and although alternative toolkits like SWT finally emerged, Java GUI development has traditionally suffered from poor performance and lack of a truly native look-and- feel. End-users react much more favorably to setup applications that are responsive and provide a familiar native interface, even if the functionality is identical. The above is not intended as a rant against Java-based installers, rather as an illustration of the challenges that a cross platform installation tool faces. So, how does InstallBuilder address these issues? Installers generated with InstallBuilder are native applications that do not require any runtime to be present in the system to run. This means that the overhead the installer introduces is very small, typically around 2 to 3 Mb, versus the 15 Mb to 20 Mb that a bundled JRE requires. In addition to this, the installers do not perform a self-extraction step, meaning that they start up instantaneously, whereas some Java-based installers can take up to minutes to initialize for large installers. Installers created with InstallBuilder use the underlying system libraries for displaying their GUI interfaces, so users get a native look and feel for each platform the installers run on, such as Windows and Mac OS X. On Linux and other Unix platforms, there is not a single standard look and feel. In those cases, InstallBuilder provides a choice between the most common toolkits, Qt and GTK, as well as a built-in fallback mode. What’s New In InstallBuilder 21 InstallBuilder 21 provides a host of new features, including: • Multi-core installer creation: InstallBuilder can take advantage of multiple cores/threads in LZMA and LZMA Ultra compression • Multi-core decompression: Significantly faster file unpacking by using up to 8 cores/threads for LZMA and LZMA Ultra compressions • Installation time performance improvements: Multiple changes in file management provide up to 20% speed increase for large installers • Support for cross-platform installer signing: Signing installers for both Windows and Mac OS X can now be done from any platform Features InstallBuilder is a fully-featured tool capable of addressing multiple installation scenarios, from desktop games to engineering simulation tools to enterprise-level server software. • Multiplatform Support: VMware InstallBuilder installers are native binaries that can run on Windows, OS X and Linux and most other flavors of Unix, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, AIX, OS/400, HP-UX and IRIX. • Desktop Integration: VMware InstallBuilder installers provide native look and feel and desktop integration for Windows, OS X and Linux (KDE and Gnome). • Optimized: VMware InstallBuilder installers are optimized in size and speed and do not require a self-extraction step, reducing download, startup and installation time. Built-in LZMA support provides great compression ratios. • No External Dependencies: VMware InstallBuilder installers are single-file, self-contained native executables with no external dependencies and minimal overhead. Unlike competing products, all VMware InstallBuilder installers are truly native code and do not require bundling a Java Runtime Environment. • Ease of Use: VMware InstallBuilder installers provide an intuitive and easy to use interface on all platforms, even for end users without previous Linux experience. • Ease of Development: InstallBuilder includes an easy to learn, easy to use GUI environment. Design, build and test installers with the click of a button. • Time Saving Functionality: For advanced users, a friendly XML project format supports source control integration, collaborative development and customizing projects both by hand and using external scripts. A command line interface allows you to automate and integrate the building process. QuickBuild functionality allows you to update installers in a few seconds, without having to repack the entire application. • Built-in Actions: InstallBuilder provides convenient built-in actions for commonly required installation functionality such as auto-detecting a Java(tm) Runtime, changing file permissions and ownership, substituting text in a file, adding environment variables, adding directories to the path, creating symbolic links, changing the Windows registry, launching external scripts and so on. • Crossplatform Build Support: The installer builder tool can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and all other supported Unix platforms and generate installers for all target platforms from a single project file. Create all your installers from a single build environment! • Customization: VMware InstallBuilder installers can be customized in a variety of ways, both graphically and in functionality. It is possible to ask for multiple parameters, like username and passwords, in the same installer screen. This functionality helps to simplify the installation process for end-users. • Multiple Installation Modes: VMware InstallBuilder installers provide: several GUI modes with native look-and-feel, for installation in a variety of desktop environments, a text-based installation mode, for console-based and remote installations, and a silent/unattended install mode which can be used for integration in shell scripts for automated deployment. • Support for Qt® GUI Frontend: The InstallBuilder for Qt family of products provides a GUI installation mode using the Qt crossplatform toolkit, enhancing the end-user experience • Rollback Functionality: VMware InstallBuilder installers by default perform a backup of all the files overwritten during installation, so if there is an error, the system can be recovered to its previous state. • Native Package Integration: VMware InstallBuilder installers can register your software with the RPM package database, combining the ease of use of an installer wizard with the underlying native package management system. • RPM and DEB generation: In addition to creating native executables that can register with the RPM subsystem, VMware InstallBuilder can generate self-contained RPM and Debian packages that can be installed using the native package management tools. • Uninstall Functionality: An uninstall program is created as part of every installation, allowing users to easily uninstall the software. Like the installers, it can be run in a variety of modes. On Windows, uninstall functionality can also be accessed from the Add/Remove Programs entry in the Control Panel. • Startup Failure Detection: VMware InstallBuilder installers will automatically and gracefully detect the best installation mode available. Users also have the option to manually select a mode. • Language and Platform Independent: VMware InstallBuilder installers can install applications written in any language, including: Java, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, C/C++ and .NET/Mono. • Multiple Language Support: VMware InstallBuilder installers support a variety of installation languages, including English, German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Polish, Valencian, Catalan, Estonian, Slovenian, Romanian, Hungarian, Russian and Welsh. Installers in Qt mode support right to left languages such as Arabic. The full list can be found in the Languages section. You can specify a default language or let the user decide. Please contact us if you require additional language support. Supported Platforms InstallBuilder provides support for all common (and not so common!) operating systems out there. If you want to know if InstallBuilder supports a particular platform, please contact us - chances are that it does. InstallBuilder-generated installers will run on: • Windows XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 • Mac OS X (PPC & Intel) 10.2 and later • Linux (Intel x86/x64, Itanium, s390 and PPC) All distributions and version including Ubuntu, RHEL, SLES and Meego. • Solaris (Intel
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