Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "installer" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "installer" over time.
Installation of a computer program is the act of making the program ready for execution. Installation refers to the particular configuration of software or hardware with a view to making it usable with the computer. A soft or digital copy of the piece of software (program) is needed to install it. There are different processes of installing a piece of software (program). Because the process varies for each program and each computer, programs often come with an installer, a specialised program responsible for doing whatever is needed for the installation. Installation may be part of a larger software deployment process. Read more on Wikipedia