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 necessarily 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.

To install WarpIN, simply double-click on WARPIN.EXE after unzipping the WarpIN archive. You will get more information then. This will create a program object for WarpIN (which is associated with WarpIN archives) and initialize some data. This will not copy any files anywhere though, so before doing that, you should move the WarpIN directory to the location where you want it to remain forever.

After installing WarpIN, you can simply double-click on any WarpIN archive to have it installed.

If you want to move the WarpIN directory to a different location later, this is possible. However, the first time WarpIN is started from the new location then, it will complain that its location data needs to be updated. Confirm this, and WarpIN will still work.

Note that starting with V0.9.14, you can start WarpIN with certain command line options to force itself to be reinstalled, in case your existing installation broke somehow.