Squish Installer use cases

There are a few Squish Installer uses cases that might be good to document.

Regular Installation

• no previous Squish, or Qt installation
• Squish Installer is started
• it fetches a license key
• displays Installer pages based on a license key
• starts the installation
• finishes the installation after some time

Canceled Installation, at the beginning

• no previous Squish, or Qt installation
• Squish Installer is started
• it fetches a license key
• displays Installer pages based on license key
• user cancels the installation at one of the pages, before starting the installation

Canceled Installation, at the middle

• no previous Squish, or Qt installation
• Squish Installer is started
• it fetches a license key
• displays Installer pages based on license key
• starts the installation
• user cancels the installation somewhere in the middle, around 50%

Multiple Installations

• there are multiple Squish, or Qt installation on the target machine
• Squish Installer is started
• it fetches a license key
• displays Installer pages based on license key
• starts the installation
• finishes the installation after some time

Copied Installation

• there are multiple Squish, or Qt installation on the target machine
• user copies an existing installation and pastes it into another folder
• run the command line tool called squishconfig for configuring such installation

Canceled Unattended Installation

• no previous Squish, or Qt installation
• Squish Installer is started from command line in unattended mode (no GUI)
• installations starts
• users stops the installation somewhere in the middle (by force, kill or so)

Uninstallation of a single installation

• there's only one Squish installation on the target computer
• user starts Uninstaller
• and uninstalls Squish

Uninstallation when there are multiple installations

• there are multiple Squish, or Qt installation on the target machine
• user starts Uninstaller
• and uninstalls Squish