Even though WarpIN is an installer, it needs to be installed itself.

As opposed to most installers you might be used to (e.g. the IBM Software Installer, or InstallShield on Windows 95), WarpIN does not come with the software that you are installing.

Instead, it is installed once on your system only. This way, it can resolve dependencies between applications, keep track of the files that were installed, and de-install software too. Also you get a consistent user interface for all the software that uses WarpIN as its installer.

There's still no real installation of WarpIN at this point. To install WarpIN, do the following:

  1. Place the files from the WarpIN package in a directory of your choice.

  2. Create a program object for WARPIN.EXE and associate it with the *.WPI extension. This will allow you to install archives with a simple double-click.
To install any software with WarpIN then, you need to create or download a WarpIN archive and double-click on it.