Method of managing software installation and unloading

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for installing / uninstalling management software, presetting a local software information library at the user end to store installed software dependence relation information description file. As software or components in the software are to be uninstalled, the user end can judge whether there is software depending on the to-be-uninstalled software according to the description file: if yes, not uninstalling the software; otherwise uninstalling it. And the invention also sets software dependence relation information description file in software installation unit for providing installation program. As software or components in the software are to be installed, the user end can determine whether the installed software depends on other software according to the description file: if yes, the user end can first install the other software depended and then install the to-be-installed software or components.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a software installation / uninstallation technology in a computer system, in particular to a method for managing software installation / uninstallation. Background technique [0002] In a computer system, various types of computer software are often installed to meet different needs of different users. There is likely to be a dependency relationship between these software, that is, some software must depend on other software to run normally. This requires that when installing software, you must first install other software that the software depends on. Similarly, when uninstalling software, other software that depends on this software must be uninstalled first, otherwise, after uninstalling this software, other software that depends on this software will not be able to run normally. [0003] At present, software management of its own installation can be divided into three categories. The first category is to install the software...

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The first category is to install the software directly without considering the dependencies between the software during the software installation process, but the installed software may not be able to run normally due to the lack of dependent software

The second category is to pre-set the software’s own management program in the installation software. During the software installation process, the software’s own management program checks whether there is any software that the software depends on at the client end. If it exists, the software is installed directly. If not If it exists, a prompt message will be sent to the user terminal, and the software will be installed after the user terminal installs the software on which the software depends. However, this kind of software installation process must require the participation of the customer on the user terminal, which increases the trouble for the customer to install the software

The third category is to pre-set the software’s own management program in the installation software and the installation program of the software on which the software depends or the source information of the software installation program on which the software depends. During the software installation process, the software’s own management program checks the user’s Whether there is any software that the software depends on, if it exists, install the software directly, if not, install the software according to the source information of the software program that the software depends on set in the installation software or obtain the software directly from the installation software Information, install the software after installing the software that the software depends on, but during the installation process of this kind of software, it is necessary to additionally set the software’s own management program for each software, as well as the installation program of the software that the software depends on or the software The source information of the dependent software installation program, which not only increases the storage space occupied by the installation software, but also is cumbersome to set up each installation software

[0004] Furthermore, there is currently no management of software uninstallation, and it is impossible to judge the software dependencies of the software to be uninstalled. If a software that other software depends on is uninstalled, other software will not be able to run normally.

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