Hi, thanks, that's interesting and another workaround for what appears
to me to be an incorrect installer script?
If I'm right this looks to be easily curable by a hopefully relatively
simple change to the default file path in the installer script, by
appending the version number (without the periods) into the default
folder name. That would then work for the RC's as well.
Alan G0TLK
On 31/12/2022 21:00, Peter Sumner wrote:
Hello Alan,
to avoid running the installer all together, you can use the '7ZIP'
utility to uncompress the WSJT-X package EXE file straight into a
folder on the PC, yes it works. This is the path I have taken, it
allows me to have many and varied copies of WSJT-X on a PC and no
entries in the installed apps catalogue of Windows or entries in the
system registry.
Once the files have been extracted, you can go to the 'Bin' sub
folder, right click on the WSJT-X.EXE and select create shortcut if
you need a dedicated shortcut to start each copy (give each shortcut
you create a meaningful name).
Regards,
Peter, vk5pj
On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 2:39 AM Alan Groups via wsjt-devel
<wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Last post on this issue.
* I cleaned ap again, and installed version 2.5.3 into a
wsjtx253 folder, then version 2.5.4 into a wsjtx254 folder
* That worked, apart from some initial "stale lock file"
complaints that went away on retry. The Start Menu entry for
2.5.3 started that version and the entry for 2.5.4 started
that one
* The 2.5.4 entry was missing the Start Menu entries for
uninstaller, documentation and website, but the latter two
appeared on their own when I uninstalled 2.5.3 from
Settings>Apps and Features
* The uninstaller for 2.5.4 nevertheless worked when I did so
from Settings>Apps and Features
Maybe something like that is all that's necessary to clear this
one up - the installer to suggest a different default folder for
each version?
Alan G0TLK
On 31/12/2022 13:46, Alan Groups via wsjt-devel wrote:
Following a system clean-up I've looked a bit further into the
weird menu and other entries I found on my system and found the
same effects arising on version upgrade, so it's a repeatable issue:
*The Uninstaller*
* Following a system clean of WSJT-X, installation of v 2.5.4
and after a reboot I uninstalled WSJT-X 2.5.4 using the
uninstal link under the Start button - it runs uninstal.exe
* WSJT-X went from the Start menu, the W10 apps list, Control
Panel>Programs & Features, and the registry
* The uninstaller therefore seems to be doing it's job, if run.
*Version upgrade*
I then installed version 2.5.3 and rebooted, followed by an
upgrade to version 2.5.4 by simply running the latter installer.
This gave me:
* Start Menu - one entry labelled 2.5.3 that actually runs 2.5.4
* Registry - two entries, for each of 2.5.3 and 2.5.4
* Control Panel>Programs & Features - two entries in the list,
one for 2.5.3 and one for 2.5.4, both uninstalling only 2.5.4
* Settings>Apps & Features - same as Control Panel
The system entries are therefore incorrect, leading to user
confusion and for all I know potential W10 system issues as well.
*Diagnosis*
I don't believe the installer is running the working uninstal.exe
nor is it cleaning up system entries from the previous version,
when a new version is installed over the top of an existing version
*Suggested solutions*
* Advise users to run the uninstaller first, before version
upgrading; or
* Incorporate minimum necessary system entry clean-up into the
installer script; or
* If an ability to run multiple versions on one machine is
required then amend the installer script so that it handles
the system entries to have each version remaining entirely
separate
Hope that helps!
Alan G0TLK
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