Modeling Installation

[fyreman]

I think that "I want to install this program" is a reasonable use case for some actors.  Granted, installation is a subsidiary goal for the actual end user, but it's the primary goal of whoever is charged with doing it.

My question here is "what goes between the use case and the artifacts" ?

My first shot at this would be to make an activity diagram that has actions such as "copy tar from the installation media to /bin/tar"
I could then link the action to the artifact via a realization link.

In the case of the tar command, this is not ordinarily installed separately but is done via the OS installation.  Said installation, being a big and complicated thing, begs for UML.

One final question in this topic is how to connect the initial use case to the activity diagram for the installation?