INSTALL APPARATUS, INSTALL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20070245344A1
• Filed: 01/26/2007
• Published: 10/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kumagai, Atsushi, Miyazaki, Shigeyuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,861,241 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57

Abstract

An object of this invention is to obviate the need of updating a master installer even when one of a plurality of software programs to be installed is modified. An install method of installing, in a computer, a plurality of software programs each having an installation setting file describing process contents to install the software continuously, installs the plurality of software programs by continuously reading out the contents of the installation-setting files of the plurality of software programs.

Claims

1. An install apparatus for installing a plurality of programs, comprising:

a first storage unit configured to store, for each program, an installation-setting file and an installation target file in correspondence with each other;

a reading unit configured to read the installation-setting files of the plurality of programs in accordance with one installation executable file; and

a second storage unit configured to store the installation target files corresponding to the installation-setting files in an order in accordance with the installation-executable file and the installation-setting files.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a generation unit configured to generate a list window showing a plurality of programs in accordance with the installation-setting files read by said reading unit; and

a display control unit configured to display the list window generated by said generation unit.

3. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the list window includes at least one of a selection enable/disable setting, an icon, a name, a version number, an explanation, and a disk capacity of each program.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire the number of installation target files of each program and a file size of each installation target file in accordance with the installation-setting files read out by said reading unit;

a calculation unit configured to calculate a sum of the file sizes acquired by said acquisition unit;

a determination unit configured to determine an installation progress amount of each program on the basis of the number of files acquired by said acquisition unit and the sum calculated by said calculation unit; and

an update unit configured to update a state of progress of installation on the basis of the installation progress amount determined by said determination unit every time said second storage unit stores the installation target file.

5. An apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a notification unit arranged to notify a user of the state of progress of installation updated by said update unit.

6. A method of installing a plurality of programs, comprising:

a first storage step of storing, for each program, an installation-setting file and an installation target file in correspondence with each other;

a reading step of reading out the installation-setting files of the plurality of programs in accordance with one installation executable file; and

a second storage step of storing the installation target files corresponding to the installation-setting files in order in accordance with the installation executable file and the installation-setting files.

7. A program that causes a computer to execute a method of installing a plurality of programs, comprising:

a code of a first storage step of storing, for each program, an installation-setting file and an installation target file in correspondence with each other;

a code of a reading step of reading out the installation-setting files of the plurality of programs in accordance with one installation executable file; and

a code of a second storage step of storing the installation target files corresponding to the installation-setting files in order in accordance with the installation executable file and the installation-setting files.

8. A storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a method of installing a plurality of programs, the program comprising:

a code of a first storage step of storing, for each program, an installation-setting file and an installation target file in correspondence with each other;

a code of a reading step of reading out the installation-setting files of the plurality of programs in accordance with one installation executable file; and

a code of a second storage step of storing the installation target files corresponding to the installation-setting files in order in accordance with the installation executable file and the installation-setting files.