Introduction

This page documents the Apache DS installers. It explains what kind of installers are available, their internal structures and how to generate them.

Installers Architectures

As of march 2008, we currently have the following set of installers for Apache DS:

A Windows executable installer (.exe)
A Linux RPM installer (.rpm)
A Linux DEB installer (.deb)
A Linux BIN installer (.bin)
A Mac OS X PKG installer (.pkg)

Windows executable installer

The Windows executable installer is built using NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/), an open source system to create Windows installers.
The installer can, of course, be generated a Windows system but also on a Linux or Mac OS X system (for these two systems, a preliminary step is to compile the makensis command line utility that will be used to generate the installer).