I need a free java installer.
IzPack seems to have all the features
but its very opaque
The docs are 122 pages of pdf and handwavingly verbose without being
helpfull.

the so-called Quick-start is 34 pages
excludes the "shortcuts"
and is impossible to comprehend.

Is there an even quicker quickstart?
ie a couple of pages?

I apologise for starting a new thread when
this exists:
From: Dado <mario_zu...@inet.hr> - Find messages by this author
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:19:50 +0100
Subject: OpenToUser question: IzPack, j2sdk, JMF ?
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But google groups doesnt have a "reply" button today.
(or is March deemed to be too long ago?)
(Dont flame with "real programmers dont use google groups"
- I used to debug core dumps from a 360-40, which makes me
ten times more real than you guys born after VAX)
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To illustrate:
the IzPack Quickstart ends with these lines:
................
Make the task available
<taskdef name="izpack" classpath="${izpack.dir}/lib/compiler.jar"
classname="com.izforge.izpack.ant.IzPackTask"/>
Call the IzPack task
<izpack input="MyApp-install.xml"
output="${dist.dir}/MyApp-install-${ver}.${rel}.jar"
installerType="standard" basedir="${dist.dir}"
izPackDir="${izpack.dir}/"/>
...........................
Now exactly what is meant by "Make the task available"?
If I wanted to make it available to penguins,
I guess I could print it on fish&chip paper and throw it into the
penguin enclosure at teh zoo ...
but otherwise what do I do with those 7 lines??
..and the things  inside curly braces {}?
do I replace them with something or are they defined earlier?

I am guessing that I need to ant a build.xml
- not being an ant fan it seems I will need to  spend a week learning
ant
then another week learning IzPack... sigh...
Can anyone provide a simple IzPAck example??
cheers
gbruno