How to Install and to Update an Application?

All of the installable application software have their own instructions how to install them, which are the best among the installation guidelines that are made by the others. So, the best thing you could do is to try to understand the dialect of their instructions and follow it. If it's not possible for you to understand it, you could now choose the guidelines by others that are written in the language that you can understand.

Installing Application Software

In this tutorial we will going to install an application software, and the specific software that we'll going to install as our example is a text editor, Vim. The specific operating system (OS) that I'm using is (Microsoft) Windows 7.

1. Go to the portal where you can originally download the software or setup program, which in our case is at: download : vim online
2. Left click on a link for a program that's compatible to your operating system. Choose such “MS-Windows: self-installing executable” for Microsoft Windows' user.
3. Wait a minute while your PC is downloading the setup program which in our case is named as or close to "gvim74.exe" if it's for MS-Windows.
4. After downloading, run the new downloaded file. You will be ask if Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer? You need to allow it by choosing "Yes".
5. The program named Vim 7.4 Setup or that's named close to that, will now ask you such like This will install Vim 7.4 on your computer. Continue? Just click "Yes" to continue.
6. You should read the License Agreement and must accept it by clicking on “I Agree” to continue.
7. In Installation Options, you can either select the type of install or select the optional components you want to install or just leave them in Typical type for default. And make sure that you're free space have reached the space requirement which is on the bottom left of the window, and click on “Next >” to continue.
8. In Installation Folder, you can choose a destination directory that end in 'vim' to install the software, or just leave it default. Just make sure that your computer have reached the space required, and then click "Install".
9. Installing the application would just take a minute to complete! While this process, you can see on your unfocused desktop at the back, that there are new shortcuts that have the word "Vim" on their titles, appearing.
10. When the transferring have "Completed", left click the "Close" button to close the window entitled such as Vim 7.4 Setup.
11. You will now be greeted with The installation process has been successful. Happy Vimming! Do you want to see the README file now? Click "Yes" if you want, or "No" if you don't. It's a good practice to read what a newly installed application was offering.
    • If you click "Yes", a document with a few details about Vim will be opened with it, you could just simply close it.

Note that the installation guidelines of Vim (text editor) above is specifically for the users of Microsoft Windows (operating system).

Updating Application Software

Most of software products have many ways to update their systems, and some of them have only a single way. The certain way to update an application is to download the new setup program of that software. The details below will give you some few tips how to update software.

• Follow the step 1 up to the step 5 of our previous instruction about installation, because the link on the official portal, to acquire the product will be the foremost updated on their new updates. If they have a new update about their software, the link for downloading shall be change to the link for the new one.
• In a few seconds, you will recive Uninstall: Confirmation. You must uninstall the recent version of the application from your system first, by clicking the "Uninstall" button.
• If there's another instruction that the Uninstall program have given to you (if any), just follow it, use the understanding that you've get when you're installing that software.
• After Uninstalling, jump back to the step 6 of the previous instructions of our Installing Application Software until the end of the instructions.

Note that most of the guidelines for updating software, on the list above are referring to all the steps of the list of Installing Application Software. There are really no difference on both processes except about the uninstallation guidelines. Actually, just a simple understanding and following the requirements of a setup program will give you a full knowledge how to install a different kind of software.