installer

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installer - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  installer
  
     <operating system> A utility program to ease the
     installation of another, probably larger, application.  It
     is also possible for hardware to have an installer accompany
     it, to install any low level device drivers required.
  
     The installer commonly asks the user to enter desired
     configuration options for the main program or hardware, and
     sets up various initialisation files accordingly, as well as
     copying the main program to a hard disc.
  
     Some badly designed operating systems require applications to
     provide an uninstaller because of the number of different
     files modified or created during the installation process.
  
     (1998-02-09)