I understand скачать is for download, but what is the correct term for install?
(по)ставить?
4
-
Загрузить is more literal for download (load = груз). Though, скачать is more often used. Even выкачать implying files were large or many, so the very downloading process was a significant job per se. Also загрузить is quite generic. Upload - загрузить на сервер, load - загрузить в память. Boot or bootstrap - загрузить операционную систему (в память)– AriochOct 14, 2018 at 19:43
-
загрузить (на) seems to be more apt as an equivalent of UPload, a synonym of закачать (на) which belongs to a lower register, however formally загрузить is used in the sense of DOWNload– Баян Купи-каOct 15, 2018 at 12:44
-
Наконец уровень (игры) загрузился. That is not from WWW, that is from disk to RAM.– AriochOct 15, 2018 at 19:07
-
"Загрузить" in the meaning of "to download" is used much more rarely than "скачать". Typically it should be followed by some preposition like "загрузить на" or "загрузить себе" However, in the context of smartphones (rather than PCs) I can see "загрузить" in plain use more often.– AlexanderOct 16, 2018 at 19:02
Add a comment
|
3 Answers
Установить/устанавливать
(По)Cтавить can be used colloquially
answered Oct 13, 2018 at 18:04
-
2
Установить would be the most widely used one. Literally, "to set up". Установка - Setup, installation.
Less commonly used is also a direct loanword инсталлировать, инсталляция. You might use this when you want to be more specific about the type of setup.
Answers provided are correct I just want to mentioned yet another verb used casually - заинсталлить (or just заинсталить since double consonants are relatively rare in Russian), like in following phrases:
Нужно заинсталлить сертификат.
or
При инсталляции Акробата есть предложение заинсталлить и принтер.
As a sidenote - there's even отынсталить, though it used less often.
-
downvoter can you explain yourself? Those are real-life worlds one can easily google.– shabunc ♦Oct 16, 2018 at 14:18