Thanks for the reply,
I see that the unix wizard installer uses GTK widgets. Now what I
really want to do is that for those users who do not have an xserver or
GTK, I can create basic text widgets or simple text dialogs which will
essentially get the same information form the user. Then we can install
normally. To do this perhaps we have to write a unix-console install
wizard or stub installer.
I believe the actual xpinstall engine is independent of the native UI
so this should be possible. How much work do you think would be required
to accomplish this kind of thing.
Thanks ,
-AS
Daniel Veditz wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>Does XPInstall have a text based (no UI) installation mode? We are
>>looking at XPInstall to install our products but cannot assume that
>>our users would have a Xserver running at the time of installation.
>
>
> Depends on what you mean by XPInstall. The native stub installs have a
> "silent" mode. If you really mean a pure XPInstall then we're only a couple
> steps away from something like
> xpinstall -d <dest> foo.xpi bar.xpi
>
> But someone would have to write that xpinstall executable. the xpistub
> library used by the native installers would probably be a good base. The
> logic would look something like
>
> XPI_Init( dest... );
> while (xpi files)
> XPI_Install(file);
> XPI_Exit();
>
> -Dan Veditz
>
