AppSnap
AppSnap is a software install tool

AppSnap is an application that will simplify the installation of software. AppSnap automatically figures out the latest version, downloads the installer and then installs the software in one seamless step

AppSnap is primarily designed for Windows which does not have any decent package manager such as APT and RPM as in the Linux world

AppSnap is written in Python and uses wxPython, PyCurl and PyYAML. It is packaged using Py2Exe and installed using NSIS

AppSnap is being released under the GPL. The source code is included in the installer

Here are some key features of "AppSnap

Detect latest version of supported applications
Download, install, upgrade and uninstall
Fully functional GUI and CLI supporting localization
Manage installed and upgradeable applications
Manage AppSnap updates from within itself
Update growing application database from central repository
Create single application repository to be used by AppSnap on an intranet
Support proxy configurations
Parallel downloads with progress information
Filter applications by category and keywords
Free and Open Source


What's New in This Release

AppSnap is now localizable.
A French translation has been added courtesy Gonzague Dambricourt
A Danish translation has been added courtesy Sّren Pedersen
Moved text "Filter" into the filter box to save space on the GUI
Added a "Help" icon to the GUI which opens the HTML documentation
Zipped applications with no installer can now be deployed
AppSnap maintains a copy of the database in the cache directory since it is an essential part of the application repository
Added preinstall, postinstall, preuninstall and postuninstall directives to allow executing custom commands to assist the install/uninstall process
In db.ini, the following are now optional: instparam, chinstdir, uninstall and uninstparam.
AppSnap now limits the number of threads spawned in parallel depending upon the number of network connections configured in config.ini
Internal code cleanup : move numeric limits to defines.py, return unique return values depending on error
Moved entire AppSnap documentation into a TiddlyWiki based appsnap.html. Deleted entire "docs" folder and updated build.py and appsnapsetup.nsi to package this HTML file instead of the text files
Fixed a bug where latest.ini creation was failing on a fresh install since the cache directory did not exist. (Reported by gabmatrix). Also added error checking for all file writes
Fixed a bug where update DB on the GUI was not reloading correctly
Fixed font bug reported by gabmatrix (issue 25) where AppSnap was loading the wrong font for the application name if Office 2007 was installed
Fixed a drawing bug reported by gabmatrix (issue 22) where application details were disappearing on choosing a different category
Fixed a regex bug in uninstall where msiexec calls were getting garbled
Fixed a bug where writes to latest.ini were not being serialized
PyCurl is now instructed to try all proxy authentication schemes instead of NTLM only
Fixed a bug where the proxy server information was not being parsed correctly if the port was skipped or protocol information was specified
Fixed a bug with hyperlinks (issue 21) not working correctly on some configurations
Fixed bug in unzip where creating a new directory was failing if the directory was in use or already existed
Fixed DVD-Flick to install to defined directory
Fixed Songbird scrape and filename
Fixed K-Lite scrape
Fixed Blender3D version search to exclude release candidates
Fixed Paint.NET scrape since it is now a zipped installer