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Is there a way for my setup/installer poject to check that another program is installed on the machine before proceeding with the install process? I am using Visual Studio 2008.
Started by Jordan S on
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Additionally, some programs are listed as pre-requisites in the....
Use MSI Spy to get the Component ID of a program .
You can use the Component ID of the program to determine if it's installed.
Windows Installer supports launch conditions .
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I released a beta version of a dll driver a while ago that used a script based installer called Inno Setup, which did three things.
1) copied the dll file to a specific directory on the target file system
2) performed COM registration
3) executed a custom...
Started by Jordan S on
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Check the examples on MSDN and adapt them to your needs:
Creating a Custom Action
Using a Custom Action to Display a Message at Installation
Using a Custom Action to Pre-Compile an Assembly....
Consider the use of a Windows Installer Custom Action.
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So, I have a database that is 80MB uncompressed. I've gz'd it to 30MB, but it now requires a 25 second "unpack" time when the application first launches. I've written this code in C, making it as fast as possible (no NS* types, minimal code to complete...
Started by mr-sk on
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Importantly, allow the user to go back....
Explain on the first page that you're installing the application, and then start providing simple instructions.
I would suggest having a "splash instruction manual".
I'd go for the smaller download, I think.
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It was installed by rpm. But need to install from source to add new features to it.
Started by Shore on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Now to the real question: what feature of mysql you need and is missing? Something smells funny in your question... .
Rpm -qa | grep mysql | xargs exho rpm -e
I used rpm and not yum/urpmi/apt-get/smart since you did not say which RPM based distro are you using .
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Do i need to install the Android SDK before installing Eclipse?
Or must i install Eclipse before installing the Android SDK?
i'm worried that one has knowledge of the other, the order of installs is important, and installing the two out of order could...
Started by Ian Boyd on
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Install the Eclipse....
Once you install Eclipse you will have to install ADT (Android Development Tools) and specify the path to the SDK in the ADT configuration (inside Eclipse).
The order you install them in is not important.
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My app has its own installer but I have to guide my users to install Firebird on their own.
I'd like to install it automatically.
Thanks.
Started by Ricardo Acras on
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Being....
For example, Pidgin relies on a specific version of GTK and guides you through running the GTK installer.
Other products might be a good model to follow.
Create a bootstrapper, for your product and the prerequisites that your product needs .
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Does this install .NET 3.5 and SP1?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ab99342f-5d1a-413d-8319-81da479ab0d7&displaylang=en
or is there no single installer yet?
Started by tyndall on
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Lower on page
Full Package To download the full package, rather than the bootstrapper, click on the link below: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/0/e/20e90413-712f-438c-988e-fdaa79a8ac3d/dotnetfx35.exe
Yes, this installs the full 3.5 framework....
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Normally I would install phusion passenger via the gem command, but this wouldn't work for me, so I had to install it via a tarball and then run the installer.
My question is, how do I uninstall it?
dpkg -l | grep passenger
doesn't return anything. When...
Started by Janak on
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The only guaranteed indicator of a passenger installation is the passenger file in the apache configuration....
You should read what the Passenger documentation has to say about removal .
You just remove the folder it was installed to, and thats it.
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I have a program that I want to use as an autorun. I want it to be able to do three things. It needs to check to see if a specific program is installed, if it is not, present the user with the option to install it. Second, if the program is installed,...
Started by Malfist on
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Assuming its your program and you're building the install, I'd just have your installer write to a registry key and then check that key in....
Assuming your installation is Windows Installer based, everything you need is here .
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I install PHP using the PHP installer . And so, the PEAR package is not included . The question now is I need PEAR for Symfony upgrade purpose , but the resources I found on the internet seem to cater for the case where PEAR package is already included...
Started by Ngu Soon Hui on
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While you solve the issue with your PHP installation, you can follow the instructions available at http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.getting....
PEAR is just a set of libraries that ship with PHP, but you can also install PEAR manually.
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