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About inst.py

inst.py is main file used for microide installer generation. This script is prepared to generate linux and windows installers.

• linux installer is provided as a bash script.
• windows installers uses Inno Setup program to generate executable installer file. Generation is made from linux platform so to work properly you have to install Inno Setup via wine.

Generate Linux installer

To generate linux installer you have to run python script inst.py with --makeLinuxInstaller parameter.

This command will download all files required to linux instalation, list of all files is defined in linuxFiles variable. Main reason to download all files is to check if there are available in the internet. In second step this command will generate eclipse oomph product setup files. This generation is based on template file that can be found in templates directory. As a last step linux installer file will be generated, this file is also based on predefined template.