Hi Marco, On 13.05.2010 10:00, Marco Gaiarin wrote: > > I need to deploy TrueCrypt, and this seems a non-trivial task...
I was installing TrueCrypt via WPKG too and found just a few glitches: - Installer has no silent mode - Installing manually (extract and copy to %ProgramFiles%) does not install the "truecrypt" service which is required for non-admins to use TrueCrypt - Even adding the service manually lets TrueCrypt trigger an UAC prompt on Vista/7 if installed manually After some investigation I found that The TrueCrypt binary (TrueCrypt.exe) seems to call itself with /UAC parameter which triggers an UAC prompt if it does not find the uninstall entries. Even if the service is installed properly. Quite silly but not really a problem to work-around. I wrote a small batch script which adds the service and fakes the uninstall entry. This is working perfectly and does not trigger any UAC prompt. I have uploaded my package to RapidShare for reference: <http://rapidshare.com/files/386802277/TrueCrypt_v.6.3a.zip.html> MD5: 1DCBE2A58EF3AB06D8401C0A043419D6 How to use it: The archive already contains a sample WPKG package XML (TrueCrypt.xml). The package is configured to run unattended.cmd. unattended.cmd performs the following tasks: - Extract TrueCrypt.exe to %ProgramFiles%\TrueCrypt - Adds "truecrypt" service and installs system driver - Adds uninstall entry After this you might even uninstall TrueCrypt via control panel. If you need to update TrueCrypt this is pretty simple to do: - Download TrueCrypt from the web page - Run the installer and select to extract the binaries Now you get a sub-Folder called "TrueCrypt" which contains all which needs to be installed in %ProgramFiles%. To illustrate it I just left this folder in the package above. - Use 7-Zip (http://7-zip.org/) to create a self-extracting archive from the "TrueCrypt" sub folder. - Just rigt-click the TrueCrypt subfolder, select 7-Zip => Add to Archive... - Select 7z archive format and enable "Create SFX archive" option - Click OK and 7-Zip creates a nice TrueCrypt.exe archive - You might want to update the VERSION variable in unattended.cmd too. done. So the only thing you need to do for updates is to create a new Self-Extract archive and update the version in unattended.cmd header. br, Rainer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
