Inno Setup Alternatives

Inno Setup is described as 'free installer for Windows programs. First introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability' and is a very popular software installer in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Inno Setup for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, PortableApps.com and Wine. The best alternative is NSIS, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Inno Setup are Bat to Exe Converter, IzPack, Advanced Installer and WiX.

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SamLogic Visual Installer
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
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Visual Installer is a powerful but easy-to-use setup tool. You can create a distributable setup package and a visual setup wizard in minutes, without any programming. A created setup package can be deployed via a CD, DVD, USB stick or the Internet.

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Deb-Creator
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Linux
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Deb-Creator is a tool to quickly create Debian packages. The program provides a simple graphical user interface written in C++ using Qt Creator. It uses the dpkg command in Linux to build the final Debian package.

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Easy RPM Builder
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Linux
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A tool for developers who want to make there application available as RPM packages. rpmbuild has to be installed and you should have a good idea how rpmbuild works. The templates will give you some help how to build your own rpm package for your application.

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RPM Package Maker
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
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RPM Package Maker is a frontend for creating RPM packages quickly and easily. It requires root access.

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xeam Visual Installer
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Freemium • Proprietary
Windows
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Visual Installer brings latest installation technology to you and your customers.

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RAD & Installer
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Paid • Proprietary
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Windows
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A RAD Studio (Delphi and C++ Builder) extension for creating NSIS and Inno Setup installers. It integrates NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) and Inno Setup with Embarcadero RAD Studio IDE and allows you to create and build NSIS and Inno Setup projects right within RAD...

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Effing Package Management!
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Mac
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25 alternatives to Effing Package Management!
The packaging formats used by different distributions of Linux can be a pain point for software developers wishing to release their projects in an easily consumable way. Debian and Ubuntu rely on .deb packages, while Fedora and RedHat both use .rpm style packaging systems.

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WixPie
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
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If you want to create installers for software that you created on the Windows platform it's most likely that you tried to use the Wix-Toolset.
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alien pkg convert
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Free • Open Source
Linux
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Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats. If you want to use a package from another distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and...

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Squirrel.Windows
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Free • Open Source
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Windows
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Squirrel is both a set of tools and a library, to completely manage both installation and updating your Desktop Windows application, written in either C# or any other language (i.e., Squirrel can manage native C++ applications).

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