Guide to Customizing and Distributing Mozilla 1.4.1: Chapter 9Preparing to Create the Installer

Guide to Customizing and Distributing Mozilla 1.4.1

Chapter 9 Preparing to Create the Installer
The final screen presented by the CCK tool, called Create the Installer, allows you to specify which Mozilla components you want your installer to install. You can also use this screen to specify up to two additional installers to include with your customized Mozilla installation package.

This chapter describes the Mozilla components you can choose from and the requirements for additional installers you may wish to create.

This chapter contains these sections:

Selecting Mozilla Components
Providing Additional Installers

Selecting Mozilla Components

Table 9-1 lists the optional components that you can include (or exclude) for your customized Mozilla installer.

Note that Mozilla browser is always installed. If you choose not to include any additional components, your Mozilla installer will install Mozilla browser only.

Table 9-1 Optional components you can include in your Mozilla installer

Component

Description

Windows

Linux

Macintosh

Yes

Yes

Yes

Mail

Email and newsgroup software

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Spell Checker

For use with Mail & News and Composer

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

No

Yes

Classic skin

Support for Mozilla 1.4.1 Classic theme

Yes

Yes

Yes

Providing Additional Installers

You can include installers for up to two additional products in your Mozilla installer. When the user installs the recommended Mozilla configuration, the additional installers are automatically installed after the main Mozilla installation completes. However, if the user chooses the Custom path when installing Mozilla, the user can choose not to install the additional components.

Each installer must consist of a single, self-extracting executable (.exe) file, such as those created by installation creation programs such as InstallShield from InstallShield Software Corporation. Before you run the CCK tool, place your installers here for convenience:

installation_directory\CCKTool\Configs\my_config\Workspace\CustInst\
You specify a path to the additional installers in the last screen presented by the CCK tool: "Create the Installer."

Important: When you specify the size in kilobytes of each installer, Mozilla recommends that you enter a number approximately three times the size of the actual installer .exe file, to ensure that the installer has enough room to expand and install the program on the user's hard disk.

Component	Description	Windows	Linux	Macintosh
		Yes	Yes	Yes
Mail	Email and newsgroup software	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Yes	Yes	Yes
		Yes	Yes	Yes
Spell Checker	For use with Mail & News and Composer	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Yes	No	Yes
		Yes	No	Yes
		Yes	Yes	Yes
		Yes	No	Yes
		Yes	No	No
		Yes	No	Yes
Classic skin	Support for Mozilla 1.4.1 Classic theme	Yes	Yes	Yes

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