installer

See also: înstâller, inställer, and Installer

English

Etymology

From install +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

installer (plural installers)

1. One who installs.
   • 2014, Lynn Van Der Wagen, Lauren White, Human Resource Management for the Event Industry, page 110:

     In the event industry there are two critical times when safety is often compromised, at bump-in and at bump-out. At bump-in the organizer is usually pressed for time and it is not uncommon for installers to work around the clock. At the end of the show or exhibition, bump-out carries an even higher risk as everyone is exhausted.

2. (computing) A program that installs software in a computer and prepares it for use.
   • 2002, Lars Powers, Mike Snell, Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library, page 968:

     Because this version of the Windows Installer is aware of the GAC, it has the capability to publish components into it. […] You can manually or programmatically push an assembly into the GAC by using the command-line tool Gacutil.exe.

   • 2018 July 16, Ben Cotton, “The oldest, active Linux distro, Slackware, turns 25”, in Opensource.com‎^[1]:

     Slackware does not include a graphical installer. Its package manager does not perform any dependency resolution. This can be jarring for new users, particularly within the last few years, but it also enables a deeper understanding of the system.

Synonyms

• (program): setup, set-up

Derived terms

• offline installer
• web installer

 

Translations

person who installs

• Bulgarian: монтажник m (montažnik)
• Finnish: asentaja (fi)
• French: installateur (fr) m, installatrice (fr) f
• Galician: instalador m, instaladora f
• Georgian: დამაინსტალირებელი (damainsṭalirebeli), მაინსტალირებელი (mainsṭalirebeli)
• German: Installateur (de) m, Installateurin (de) f
• Greek: εγκαταστάτης (el) m (egkatastátis)
• Italian: installatore (it) m, installatrice (it) f
• Norwegian: installatør m
• Polish: instalator (pl) m
• Portuguese: instalador (pt) m, instaladora f
• Spanish: instalador m, instaladora (es) f

program that installs software and prepares it for use

• Czech: instalátor m
• Esperanto: instalilo
• Finnish: asennusohjelma
• French: installateur (fr) m, programme d’installation m
• Galician: instalador m
• Georgian: ინსტალატორი (insṭalaṭori)
• German: Installationsprogramm n, Installer m
• Indonesian: alat pemasang, pemasang (id)
• Italian: programma di installazione m
• Japanese: インストーラー (insutōrā), インストーラ (ja) (insutōra)
• Malay: pemasang
• Polish: instalator (pl) m
• Portuguese: instalador (pt) m
• Serbo-Croatian: instalacijski alat m, instalacijski program m
• Slovene: namestitveno orodje n
• Spanish: instalador m
• Swedish: installationsprogram (sv) n

Further reading

• “installer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• interalls, reinstall

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Medieval Latin īnstallāre (“to install, put in place, establish”), from in- + stallum (“stall”), from Frankish *stall (“stall, position, place”), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz (“place, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand, be rigid”). Cognate with Old High German stal (“location, stall”), Old English steall (“position, stall”), Old English onstellan (“to institute, create, originate, establish, give the example of”), Middle High German anstalt (“institute”), German anstellen (“to conduct, employ”), German einstellen (“to set, adjust, position”), Dutch aanstellen (“to appoint, commission, institute”), Dutch instellen (“to set up, establish”). More at on, stall.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.ta.le/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

installer

1. to install
2. to place
3. (reflexive) to settle

Conjugation

Conjugation of installer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	installer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	installant /ɛ̃s.ta.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		installé /ɛ̃s.ta.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	installe /ɛ̃s.tal/	installes /ɛ̃s.tal/	installe /ɛ̃s.tal/	installons /ɛ̃s.ta.lɔ̃/	installez /ɛ̃s.ta.le/	installent /ɛ̃s.tal/
	imperfect	installais /ɛ̃s.ta.lɛ/	installais /ɛ̃s.ta.lɛ/	installait /ɛ̃s.ta.lɛ/	installions /ɛ̃s.ta.ljɔ̃/	installiez /ɛ̃s.ta.lje/	installaient /ɛ̃s.ta.lɛ/
	past historic2	installai /ɛ̃s.ta.le/	installas /ɛ̃s.ta.la/	installa /ɛ̃s.ta.la/	installâmes /ɛ̃s.ta.lam/	installâtes /ɛ̃s.ta.lat/	installèrent /ɛ̃s.ta.lɛʁ/
	future	installerai /ɛ̃s.tal.ʁe/	installeras /ɛ̃s.tal.ʁa/	installera /ɛ̃s.tal.ʁa/	installerons /ɛ̃s.tal.ʁɔ̃/	installerez /ɛ̃s.tal.ʁe/	installeront /ɛ̃s.tal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	installerais /ɛ̃s.tal.ʁɛ/	installerais /ɛ̃s.tal.ʁɛ/	installerait /ɛ̃s.tal.ʁɛ/	installerions /ɛ̃s.ta.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	installeriez /ɛ̃s.ta.lə.ʁje/	installeraient /ɛ̃s.tal.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	installe /ɛ̃s.tal/	installes /ɛ̃s.tal/	installe /ɛ̃s.tal/	installions /ɛ̃s.ta.ljɔ̃/	installiez /ɛ̃s.ta.lje/	installent /ɛ̃s.tal/
	imperfect2	installasse /ɛ̃s.ta.las/	installasses /ɛ̃s.ta.las/	installât /ɛ̃s.ta.la/	installassions /ɛ̃s.ta.la.sjɔ̃/	installassiez /ɛ̃s.ta.la.sje/	installassent /ɛ̃s.ta.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	installe /ɛ̃s.tal/	—	installons /ɛ̃s.ta.lɔ̃/	installez /ɛ̃s.ta.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• installation
• installateur

Descendants

• → Romanian: instala

Further reading

• “installer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

installer

1. imperative of installere