Installoitavat

Installoitavat is a term used in Finnish-language information technology discourse to refer to software artifacts that are intended to be installed on a host system. The word derives from the verb installoida (to install) and the adjectival suffix -tava, yielding a sense of “things to be installed” or “installables.” It is not an official label in major packaging standards, but it appears in project documentation, build manifests, and deployment scripts to distinguish modules, packages, and libraries that require installation from items that are only configuration data, remote scripts, or runtime assets.

Characteristics of installoitavat typically include metadata such as name, version, dependencies, supported platforms, and install instructions or scripts. They are managed by package managers or deployment tools and are designed to be installed in a predictable sequence, with attention to prerequisites, file placement, and post-install configuration and validation. Installoitavat items can form part of a larger release bundle or repository and may be organized into categories based on installation scope, such as system-wide versus user-specific.

Usage in practice involves enumerating installoitavat during release planning and automation so that the installation phase can be executed reliably in continuous integration and delivery pipelines. The term helps multilingual teams discuss the portion of a software release that requires installation, as distinct from runtime assets or configuration data. See also packaging, software deployment, manifests, and dependencies.