Bob Kline wrote:
Are things really that different in the non-Windows worlds? If I want python-nose, I run "sudo apt-get install python-nose" (and that means I can always remove it with "sudo apt-get remove ..."). Seems more similar than different (ignoring the silliness of Microsoft's insistence on "the GUI is the OOWTDI" even for such administrative tasks as installing system-wide software).
I was going to -- pointedly -- drop in here the help output for msiexec, which is the commandline version of the MSI installation graphical stuff. Only... when I did msiexec /?, the result was that a Window popped up with the information in it. (Sort of agrees with your point a bit!) Still, here's the info (cut-and-pasted from that window): ----- Windows ® Installer. V 3.01.4000.1823 msiexec /Option <Required Parameter> [Optional Parameter] Install Options </package | /i> <Product.msi> Installs or configures a product /a <Product.msi> Administrative install - Installs a product on the network /j<u|m> <Product.msi> [/t <Transform List>] [/g <Language ID>] Advertises a product - m to all users, u to current user </uninstall | /x> <Product.msi | ProductCode> Uninstalls the product [... snip lots of other options ...] TJG