Linux binary installers
April 10th, 2007 No Comments »
In Spain, there are some regulations for public administrations regarding Technological Neutrality (Observatorio de Neutralidad Tecnológica) and maybe therefore this year the programs aiding informative declarations are “multiplatform”. Meaning that, supposedly compatible with Windows, MacOS X and Linux. For this great purpose they have used a JVM and an InstallShield .bin installer.
I will not get into the point that Java is not really portable, since there is no descent JVM for some platforms like my laptop’s PowerPC + Linux combination. This post goes for the difficulties using InstallShield installers in x86_64.