Hi there,
Just wondering if it's possible to kick off a silent install using
Windows Installer properties (rather than with /q on the cmdline)?
I'm asking as I've created a vs05 bootstrapper which installs
prerequisite components for my MSI, but in some scenarios would like to
be able to launch
Not sure I understand your question, but maybe try using dotNetInstaller
instead of the VS 2005 bootstrapper. With dotNetInstaller you can
specify any parameters you want when it starts the MSI.
Rennie
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What would be the most efficient way to install MS Jet 3.5 on a machine with
Wix ?
I have tried to add the dlls/exes manually and registerting the relevent
ones into system32 dir.. but nothing gets placed on the end mahcine.. no
errors or anything but no files to be seen.
the section for the
conkerjoe wrote:
What would be the most efficient way to install MS Jet 3.5 on a machine with
Wix ?
Use a bootstrapper to run MDAC (then most likely jet 3.5 sp3). MDAC
most likely won't do anything on newer systems as it's in the base OS
now, but you want to be sure in case it gets run on
iv been through the hell of bootstrappers and wix in the past..
its actually easier to just hav a massive batch file install it than go
through the pain.
could you help the pain and offer a sugestion of a bootstrapper??
one of the main issues is whats to stop the user just starting the msi
one of the main issues is whats to stop the user just
starting the msi rather than the Exe you ask them to start
with an autorun..
Yes, it's difficult to make something fool-proof, because the fools are
so ingenious. :-)
You could try turning the bootstrapper and the MSI into a single
conkerjoe wrote:
one of the main issues is whats to stop the user just starting the msi
rather than the Exe you ask them to start with an autorun.. it really needs
to be something like Installshield which wraps everything up into 1 exe so
the end user doesnt have a choice
Have a required
Would doing this mean that you can't do a distributed install, or
whatever you would call it, i.e. with GPO?
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Sent: 01 May 2007 11:58
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users]
Thomas Leigh wrote:
Would doing this mean that you can't do a distributed install, or
whatever you would call it, i.e. with GPO?
All the bootstrap solutions have this limitation. If you want to go for
'pure msi' you need to list the prerequisites in the install
instructions and let the admin
conkerjoe wrote:
iv been through the hell of bootstrappers and wix in the past..
its actually easier to just hav a massive batch file install it than
go through the pain.
could you help the pain and offer a sugestion of a bootstrapper??
I've had good results using NSIS to make a bootstrapper
Dave Roberts wrote:
Just wondering if it's possible to kick off a silent install using
Windows Installer properties (rather than with /q on the cmdline)?
As long as your package has dialogs and an InstallUISequence table, MSI
will use it to present a full UI. If you don't want to show
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, I believe I have that aspect sorted out for now via build
settings. I wasn't sure it was .NET, but installing the .NET
framework on a machine that exhibited the problem caused the problem
to go away.
.NET includes the VC++ runtime DLLs, so...
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Thanks Bob. I need the installer to support both UI driven and silent
modes,
so I guess I'll have to approach this differently (ensure the /q is
passed to the msi for a silent install; either by creating a custom
package for the bootstrapper or mod the vs03 bootstrapper sample).
Cheers,
Dave
Here's what I'm trying to achieve: I'd like to be able to create a feature
fragment (which will be in its own .wxs file) that can be referenced by a
main .wxs file. This feature may have assemblies that need to be registered,
so the most obvious solution would be to call tallow to generate
Thank you for the quick response Brett.
I'm rather ignorant when it comes to installer scripts (This is a new hat
for me) so I'd like to make sure I'm understanding you.
The other software is installed via MSI so when you say I need to bootstrap
into 1 setup.exe does that mean I should create
Michael,
One constraint of Windows Installer is that it is not possible to run
one MSI from within another (also known as a nested install). If you
have two MSI files, you need an external application (the bootstrapper)
to trigger the installation of each MSI in turn. (I.e. your second
You can't launch one MSI from another one, and you can't bundle one MSI
inside another.
So I assume what Brett is saying is that you should make a Setup.exe
that first launches one MSI, and when that is complete, launches the
other.
I've actually written a program like that recently, an MSI
Michael,
In that case you will need to run both MSIs from a setup.exe
bootstrapper (non-MSI). The problem as I understand it is that you can't
reliably run one MSI from another. You see, the Windows Installer
service only allows one MSI to be loaded and running at a time. I
believe that there
The program size displayed in Add/Remove programs increases by adding
the new size to the existing size instead of displaying the new size of
the upgrade.
Example:
Original size ARP displays 1 meg
Upgrade 1 (1 meg in size) ARP displays 2 megs
Upgrade 2 (1 meg in size) ARP displays 3 megs
as the size might be a guesstimate, (see
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/09/178342.aspx) I'm not
too surprised, although it sounds somewhat strange
On 5/1/07, Don Tasanasanta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The program size displayed in Add/Remove programs increases by adding the
Upon further testing, that didn't work. I guess I don't really
understand how these things work. I've read the tutorial, and have done
a bunch of testing on my own, but I just don't get it. So I tried
using:
Condition![CDATA[(WinClient == 3)]]/Condition
And I've tried using:
ok.. perfect answer and that is what i thought...
so that set me on my path and leaves me know with a few other questions, one
related to the topic and a few slightly off-topic... i am using only wix
v3.
1. I have authored a large file containing maybe 50 vbcontrols (ocx, dll)
and compiled it
I am pulling my hair out with this problem. Hopefully someone can point out
what I am doing wrong. My goal is to have the installer run a script to
backup all the databases on the server, install some programs, then run
scripts to update the database (structure and layout). There is data in
After reading the article I'd like to know...
Is there a way to set an estimated size for the whole program and not
have to set a size for each component?
From: Simon Dahlbacka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:56 AM
To: Don
Although I have not tested this, what about setting the ARPSIZE property
directly?
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367748.aspx
- Brett
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don
Tasanasanta
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 4:26 PM
ARPSIZE doesn't seem to do anything to the size shown in Add/Remove
programs.
From: Brett Kapilik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:34 PM
To: Don Tasanasanta; Simon Dahlbacka
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users]
I want to make a package, that downloads the files from a specific location
via the internet, is this possible and are their any examples/tutorials you
might be able to lead me to.
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I am trying to have my setup program pick the appropriate language based on
the user's computer: If the user has a German Windows, I want my setup
program to be German. In all other cases, I want it to be in English.
Can I do anything like this with wix3?
If yes, how?
Thanks,
Patrick Schmid
Hi,
i have got an out of proc com server app.exe that an installer must install
and register.
how to instruct wix to do the registration?
the installer needs to accomplish the same effect as:
app.exe -regserver at install and
app.exe -regserver at un-install
I am using two custom action to
koawmfot wrote:
1. I have authored a large file containing maybe 50 vbcontrols
(ocx, dll) and compiled it into a master binary wixlib containing
the files. My goal was to reference components from this master
file when i needed specific ones in a main project. The problem
Matt Anderson wrote:
Unfortunately (for this particular instance), tallow also
generates the Wix, Fragment, DirectoryRef, and Component tags which
are not really needed.
Tallow's meant to be a one-off tool that produces output you tweak as
needed so there's very little in the way of
Anthony Wieser wrote:
Any suggestions on how to debug this, as I'm getting nowhere. There doesn't
seem to be any reference to any of my properties in the log file, which I'm
generating with the msiexec -lvx option
If the properties aren't showing up, FindRelatedProducts isn't finding
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