Abstract: A method and system for installing and configuring a software product on a data processing system that associates setup interface panels with individual components of the software product and that builds a setup interface based upon the data processing system context at the time of installation and configuration. Components may be available on an installation media or may already be installed on the data processing system. A list of all available components is gathered and a corresponding list of all panels associated with the available components is created. Panels may have conditions governing whether or not they are displayed and those conditions may include the state of their associated component. The panel list is filtered to remove any panels that, because of their conditions, are not to be displayed in the current system context. The setup interface is built based upon the filtered panel list and it is displayed to the user.