What it is the installmade.im.bin file?

Your downloaded file installmade.im.bin size 408 KB
is a package that contains everything InstallMade needs to run on a
system with Kylix 1 or Kylix 2 installed.

The package contains:

- The binary executable im_k1  - 356KB
- The binary executable im_k2  - 357KB
- The starting script start_im  - 53KB
- The How-To file How-To-InstllMade.html - 9KB
- The InstallMade Icon im.xpm - 20KB
- A md5sum checksum file  md5checksums - 164B
 

Before installing!

Make the binary installmade.im.bin executable by
changing the permission flag to x. It can be done
in several ways, for example from command line
change to the directory which contains installmade.im.bin
then type:

chmod +x installmade.im.bin

or do it from a file explorer by clicking on properties and then checking the Enter or Exec box.

How to install.

From a file explorer, click on installmade.im.bin
From command line; change to the directory where
installmade.im.bin is located and type:

 ./installmade.im.bin
 

Requirements.

InstallMade will run only on systems where Kylix is properly installed. Also, it is recommended that no modifications to the system configurations are performed, like altering the bash profile or the  ld.so.conf or any other modification made in order to run binary outside the IDE.
Some modifications can prevent early detection of problems in running your application. In other words,  standard Linux installation and standard Kylix installation is the preferred environment to run InstallMade.

On your Linux system should be installed compression utility gzip, archiving utility tar and your user shell should be bash. The desktop on which InstallMade was tested is KDE. However, it may work satisfactorily on any other desktop. InstallMade was tested on Mandrake 7.2 Mandrake 8, Mandrake 8.1, SuSe 7.2 , SuSe 7.3, Red Had 7.1, Red Had 7.2  with Kylix Server Developer 1.0 and Kylix 2 Enterprise.  Please let me know if you are running a different setup, then described.
 

How to run InstallMade.

To run InstallMade click on the file start_im  from KDE explorer (Konqueror) or from command line - like:

 cd  ~/installmade/bin
 ./start_im

If you are using KDE or GNOME then executing start_im will create a link to start_k1 or start_k2 on your desktop.
 

What InstallMade does?

While in execution InstallMade will create a subdirectory in /home/user/installmade directory, using the name of Install Project Name. At the end of the installation you will find all the files produced by InstallMade in that directory.

What is Base Directory?
Base directory is the directory name where your application will be installed on the destination computer.

What is Installation Project Name? 

InstallMade creates the project name from the Base Directory name and the executable name combine with <p> . For example, if your executable name is Project1 and the Base Directory name is Test1 then the Installation project name will be p-Test1-Project1. Then InstallMade will create a subdirectory  /home/user/installmade/p-Test1-Project1 . During the creation of installation for your application you will need to specify with which version of Kylix the executable was created, the installation Base Directory, the type of install directory structure and the location of your application binary;  everything else is pretty much automatic.

The self-installable packages (im.bin) performed correctly on a Linux system without X-server running and on an system with X-server running. If  X-server is available, package (im.bin) is using calls directly to it.

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The attached file installmade.tar.gz is a compressed archive that contains three files:

1. InstallMade - 56.2KB (the main program InstallMade)
2. start_im - 272B the start script file which runs InstallMade
3. checksums - 89B contains the checksums of the two above files.

How to Install?
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1. Copy the installmade.tar.gz file into your home user directory:
For example if your user name is <sam> then you should have:
/home/sam/installmade.tar.gz

2. Open a terminal and type:
tar -xvzf installmade.tar.gz
and press <Enter>
You should see something like this:
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[sam@LinBox07 sam]$ tar -xvzf installmade.tar.gz
installmade/
installmade/installmade
installmade/checksums
installmade/start_im
[sam@LinBox07 sam]$
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How to run InstallMade?
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1. Click on  start_im
2. From a terminal cd installmade and ./start_im
3. From desktop - copy start_im on the desktop or create a link to ~/installmade/start_im

 InstallMade will run only on systems where Kylix is properly installed. Also it is recommended that no modification to the system configuration was performed, like altering the bash profile or the ld.so.conf or any other modification made in order to run binary outside the IDE. Some modifications can prevent early detection of problems in running your application. In other words, standard Linux installation and standard Kylix installation is the preferred environment in which to run InstallMade.
On your Linux system you should have installed compression utility gzip, archiving utility tar and your user shell should be bash. The desktop on which InstallMade was tested is KDE. However, it may work satisfactorily on any other desktop. InstallMade was tested on Mandrake 8 and SuSe 7.2. With Kylix Server Developer 1.0 Build (5.62). Please let me know if you are running a different setup than listed above. To run InstallMade click on the file start_im from KDE explorer (Konqueror) or from the command prompt, like cd installmade and ./start_im


While in execution, InstallMade will create a subdirectory in the /home/user /installmade directory, using the name of install project name. At the end of the installation you will be able to find all the files produced by InstallMade in that directory. For example if your project name is MyInstall_1 then InstallMade will create a subdirectory /home/user/ installmade/MyInstall_1. During the creation of the installation for your application you will need to specify, as mentioned above, the installation project name, the type of install directory structure and the location of your application binary. Everything else is pretty much automatic.

This version (b.0.5.2) can create a tar.gz package that has everything that your application may need to run on a different computer.