Take a look at your registry path HKLM:\Software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall.
Each installed package should register there, and I think the idea is that guids should be used, but as you can see from the software installed on my machine some packages just use the package name: <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7gwhNDMPOWA/VsWT6yl8PdI/AAAAAAAAFEM/7eMqkSLP72o/s1600/2016-02-18%2B10_49_04-Program%2BManager.png> So, if I for instances wanted to create an ansible play for installing android studio, I would simply used productId "Android Studio". If the software you want to install doesn't register itself under the uninstall registry path there's not much you can do with win_package, as it requires a registry-based lookup to firugre out if the software is already installed or not. You could possibly test of the installed files are already present and then do win_script to install the package in a more manual way maybe. In any case, win_package requires that the installed software plays nicely and registers itself in the uninstall path. On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 12:46:50 AM UTC+1, Gerald Spencer wrote: > > I am currently going through and installing all of the various software > that is needed to provision our windows 7 machines. Unfortunately, when I > attempt to install the latest Anaconda3 from continuum, I am unable to > locate that products guid (product_id). It doesn't appear in the normal > registry locations for 64 or 32 installs, in the wmic.exe get product > powershell output or under a Get-ChildItem Win32_Product powershell output > as well. > > I generated a guid, but after the program installed it failed since it was > unable to locate the product_id to see if it was installed (the error was > basically, the program appeared to install correctly, but it was unable to > located the product_id). > > Since the product_id is required for this module is there anything I can > do? I double the win_msi package would work due to the face that the > anaconda3 installer is a installshield exe. > > I currently have a version by repackaging the exe as a msi in AdminStudio, > but that isn't ideal. > > Cheers > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/1478e514-30ce-4cc3-b5b6-ae69137d4b1d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
