The phrase "an attempt to install" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort or action taken to set up or put in place a software, application, or system.
Example: "The technician made an attempt to install the new software on the computer, but encountered several errors."
Alternatives: "an effort to install" or "a try to install".
In the 1960s, Mr. Kuhn said, an attempt to install a bronze likeness of Mary Poppins in the park fizzled.
Nationally the Tories in opposition angered police chiefs with their plans for elected commissioners, which were branded as an attempt to install political control of policing.
Mr Ghazi was the public face of a brief-lived Islamist rebellion which had brazenly defied President Musharraf's government in an attempt to install Sharia law on the Pakistani capital.
Talk of an attempt to install an anti-Brown candidate as chair of the parliamentary party in this week's PLP elections, as part of a plot to force him to stand down before a general election, has faded.
After Casey's death, in early 1987, Reagan failed in an attempt to install Gates at the top of the C.I.A., and the young Casey protégé — he was forty-three years old at the time — was eventually moved into the White House job.
In a statement sent by e-mail to reporters, the spokesman for the group, who goes by the nom de guerre Jomo Gbomo, said the Nigerian government was behind the attack, calling it an attempt "to install a dissident based in Spain as head of state".
It is entirely possible to assemble an "rpm repository from hell" such that nearly any attempt to install a package will break something (or require something that breaks something).
The local mayor also complained to the French president that the Saudi group had poured concrete directly onto the sand in an unauthorized attempt to install an elevator.
The Second Front had earlier issued a statement declaring that "the dictatorship is nearly crushed," and the U.S. government tried to push out Batista, in a futile attempt to install an acquiescent "third force".
Mr. Shumway, who founded his firm in 2002, decided to close after investors revolted at a failed attempt to install a new investment officer.
The weapons were to have been stockpiled for a future attempt to install a Salafist emirate in Tunisia, said people in the interior ministry.The problem for Nahda is that its most conservative wing overlaps with the most moderate fringe of the Salafists.
