Changes in the current installer:

1. The following questions will be removed:
   • The questions related to fetchmail.
   • The question which asks email address of the admin user.
   • Upon reinstallation, the user is prompted for the credentials of the mysql user instead of these being grepped from /etc/merce/passwords.txt. These questions which ask the username and password of mysql user should be removed.
2. During installation the user is shown the current system data and time and asked for confirming whether system date and time are correct. If the answer is no, then the installation is aborted. This should be changed to do the following:
   1. User is shown the current date and time and asked whether these have been properly configured.
   2. If the answer is no then the user is prompted again to enter the correct date and time in a particular format.
   3. If the format entered is not correct, show the error and keep on prompting his for the correctness of current date and time till he confirms the veracity of the date and time or enters the date and time according to the specified format.
3. Remove the part which generates the locate database in installer after installation.
4. Progress bar should be shown during while installation is in progress.
5. Checking of rpms after they have been installed.
6. Logging of the entire installation process in order to perform forensic analysis if required.

New features:

1. Implement installation through web based configurator.