InstallAnywhere 2021 Help Library

InstallAnywhere 2021

InstallAnywhere is a multiplatform installation development solution for application producers who need to deliver a professional and consistent installation experience for physical, virtual, and cloud environments. From a single project file and build environment, InstallAnywhere creates reliable installations for on-premises platforms—Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IBM iSeries—and enables you to deploy your products into cloud and virtual environments.

Information about using InstallAnywhere is presented in the following sections:

InstallAnywhere Help Library

Section

Description

What is New in InstallAnywhere 2021

Informs you about changes the changes in InstallAnywhere 2021.

What Was New in Earlier Versions of InstallAnywhere

Informs you about changes that were made in earlier versions of in InstallAnywhere.

Using Help

Provides information about the InstallAnywhere documentation.

Getting Started

Describes the InstallAnywhere interface authoring environments and explains how to begin creating an installation project.

Concepts of InstallAnywhere Installer Development

Introduces you to the basic and advanced concepts of InstallAnywhere installation development.

InstallAnywhere Tutorial

Provides guided exercises to explore using InstallAnywhere.

Creating Basic Installers

Provides procedures and suggestions about common situations when using InstallAnywhere to build a basic installer.

Adding Advanced Functionality to Installers

Explains how to add more advanced procedures to an InstallAnywhere installer.

Updating Applications

Describes how to create update installers for applications.

Creating Virtual Appliances

Explains how to use an existing InstallAnywhere project to build virtual appliances for cloud platforms such as Amazon EC2 and VMware vSphere.

Creating Docker Containers

Explains how to use an existing InstallAnywhere project to configure and build Docker containers along with your traditional multiplatform installers.

Using FlexNet Code Aware to Perform Open Source Risk Assessment

Describes FlexNet Code Aware, an automated open source risk assessment and package discovery solution that enables you to quickly scan your products for security and intellectual property (IP) compliance risk.

Reference

Contains comprehensive reference information for the InstallAnywhere user interface; available actions that define operations that an installation performs; parameters for the command-line tools that enable you to perform tasks such as building or running an installation; the Ant task for building installations; custom code APIs for automating development and testing of installations; and more.