Thanks Rainer for your hints.
Using the batch file sound lkike a better idea to make sure all old
version of Acrobat reader is remove.
Just one more question.
Removing Acrobat reader or any programs.
I've notice with Acrobat Reader it needs msiexec /x {x}
Where {} is a long idea code, where can I get the id code from
I've checked registry. Also, is it possible to
msiexec /x acrobat?
Also at the same time I want to remove Acrobat.com Acrobat air,?
Is they a command that removed file as listed in the Add/remove control panel?
Thanks again
Dan
At 16:14 11/06/2009, Rainer Meier wrote:
Hi,
Please respond to the list as well, so everybody can see your
answers and might
profit from the open discussions.
ds10...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
I think I began to understand what is going on.
If I want WPKG to remove old version of Acrobat reader first. I put the
remove command as before the install command?
Yes, exactly. But remember that for most applications this is not necessary
because the installers are intelligent and will perform an upgrade if they
find an outdated version. So in most cases just running the same
command as for
installation works for upgrades too.
But feel free to execute as many (remove-) commands before executing the
installation process.
One more hint: You might have to specify exit code='x' / nodes for
your remove
commands which are likely to fail. For example if you add a command to remove
Adobe reader 5.0 (msiexec /x {ID} /qn) it might exit with a specific exit code
that it was unable to execute the command (in case reader 5.0 was
not installed).
You might also use a batch-script to batch-uninstall all previous
versions. For
example add a command to execute uninstall-previous-versions.cmd and add all
commands to this script like...
@echo off
:: removing Reader 5.0
msiexec /x {x} /qn
:: removing Reader 6.0
msiexec /x {y} /qn
...
exit /b 0
One example of a bad installer is the old Java installer. It left all
versions on the system and you had to manually remove old versions in case you
want to get rid of the binaries on the HDD.
br,
Rainer
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