Introduction

This page contains instructions for distribution creators how to add easy installation of applications using One Click Installer.

By providing easy way of installation of applications:

• You provide better user experience for your distribution users.
• You save yourself time answering questions how to setup repositories, keys, install packages, etc.
• You can present to your users wide range of applications which are in your applications repository, but are not known as they are buried down deep among thousands of others.
• You can provide your users online catalog of applications to install, with screenshots, comments, ranking, etc.
• You can provide links to install popular applications not distributed directly with your distribution, but demanded by users.

Instructions

1. If there is no support for your packaging system in One Click Installer (list of supported packaging systems is on SupportedPackagingSystems page), ask your developers to create version which supports your packaging system . One Click Installer is written in Python (no compilation necessary) and has open sources, so modifying it is easy (and you can contact us on our devel mailing list in case of questions). Then contact us to add version for your distribution into One Click Installer downloads page.
2. Bundle One Click Installer with your distribution.
3. Ask your distribution packagers to prepare One Click Installer installation files, point them to this page: http://code.google.com/p/one-click-installer/wiki/InstructionsForPackagers
4. Ask your translation teams to translate descriptions and names and update installation files with translated tags.
5. Sign installation files created by your packagers using your distribution key (see CreatingOneClickInstallerFile) and post them on HTTP server in permanent place, so that they can be referenced from your users blogs, forums, articles in magazines and your distribution web pages. The files are signed, so by signing you assure users they download and install trusted software. You can update files stored on your HTTP server in case you want to improve installation options, URLs of repositories are changed, etc.
6. Post links to installation files on your webpages, distribution CDs, etc. according to guidelines presented on ShowingInstallationLinkGuideline page.
7. You can now boast installing apps in your distribution is easy for begginners.