How would I run a program installer (in C:\Downloads) using a Powershell V1 script?
I do not have control over the Powershell version so please do not ask me to update to newer version.
If I do it manually, there will be a few options for me to choose before installing. I also have to specify the location for the application.
If I have to do it via scripts, how do I set which options to choose and specify the location?
I have searched the application support page and they do not have anything I need for the installation of the software via scripts.
I am not a very skilled person when it comes to scripting as I just started out months ago.
Do you know about Chocolatey? It's a Windows package manager that allows you to install Windows applications using CLI.
To install Chrome for example:
choco install googlechrome
You can find all the available packages here.
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I am trying to install latest Python (3.7.3) on a couple of Windows 10 PCs without admin privileges. For this purpose I downloaded the corresponding executable installer from download link.
When executing the installer, some of the Windows PCs show the Install launcher for all users (recommended) option force checked. I can't proceed with the installation since I'm asked for admin privileges even though Python is to be installed on a user directory with reading and writing permissions.
Why is the Install launcher for all users (recommended) option force checked? Could it have something to do with existing launcher installations? Is there any way around?
Not sure why, but once I uninstalled existing Python Launcher I was able to uncheck the Install launcher for all users option and install Python without admin privileges.
Is it possible to install third-party application alongside my application on my own application setup?
Let's say I were to sell some of my application, and in order to run my application on client's computer I would also need to run PostgreSQL. Is it possible to install it beside my application in my setup?
I am such rookie on that subject and don't really know where to start.
(I should mention that I am particularly interested on deploying Windows applications)
All commercial software will feature ways to help you achieve this as a built-in feature. Essentially you wrap it all in a setup.exe launcher / bootstrapper / downloader and this executable will install your prerequisite components before your own install is run, if they need to be installed.
Please see these answers for some further information on deployment tools and their features:
How to create windows installer
Simple List View of Deployment Tools
What installation product to use? InstallShield, WiX, Wise, Advanced Installer, etc
The open source WiX toolkit features a component called Burn to create such setup.exe launchers / downloaders / bootstrappers. Writing WiX XML markup code is necessary to use this Burn feature. Commercial tools Installshield and Advanced Installer provide GUI to build such setup.exe files.
I'm building a custom Chocolatey repo with custom packages for my organization so that we can easily manage software without Group Policies. One piece of software we use is LaserFiche. I am trying to make it do a silent installation, however every time I install from my Choco package, it says that it couldn't install MSXML 6 SP1. All the other prerequisites are installed successfully. I was thinking it was an issue with the installer not being able to find the .msi associated with this, but I tried manually running the installer for that add-on and then installing from my package and it still failed. I'm quite confused as to what is wrong here. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Few machines have 'MyApp.exe' installed using ClickOnce. And I have created a new MSI Windows Installer for 'MyApp.exe' using MS Visual Studio 2013 Setup and Deployment. I have a requirement that when my new MSI Installer runs it has to automatically remove/uninstall all previous 'MyApp.exe' (installed using ClickOnce) and install the new exe. Installer has to do it as part of its installation process.
Is this even possible? ClickOnce doesn't make any registry entries, so how can I get the Upgrade codes/Product codes which I can feed to Windows Installed 'Upgrade Paths' to upgrade it. ClickOnce is per user installation, but Windows Installer is not.
Is it even possible for Windows Installer to uninstall ClickOnce installed application ?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
ClickOnce is a per-user deployment experience and MSI is usually a per-machine experience. Per machine can't clean up other people's profiles. The only way I know is to do an active setup trick to run a program for each user who logs on and then execute a script to do cleanup. Either that or put first-run code in the applicaton itself to do the same.
For .net 3.5 SP1, Microsoft have the new client profile which installs only a subset of .net 3.5 SP1 on to Windows XP user's machines.
I'm aware of how to make my assemblies client-profile ready. And I've read the articles on how to implement an installer for ClickOnce or MSI.
But I've been using Inno Setup for my project so far and I'd like to continue to use it (as an Express user, I can't easily make MSIs), I need to know how to use the client-profile installer in a custom environment.
There is an article on a Deployment.xml schema, but no indication of how to write one, package it or anything else. Can someone explain this process? Finding the articles I linked to alone was a painful search experience.
Microsoft has now shipped the Client Profile Configuration Designer (Beta).
This designer lets you edit the XML files with some limitations, this isn't a 'Google beta' by any means.
Information and download
Can you clarify: Are you trying to write an installer for your app, which depends on the Client-Profile, or are you trying to write a custom installer for the client-profile?
I haven't used it personally, but if it's anything like the dotnetfx 1 and 2 msi's, you basically have to just invoke it's executable yourself from your own .exe file, or from an Msi BEFORE the InstallExecuteSequence starts up - you can't "embed" those in your own app, MS go out of their way to tell you not to do that due to suckage of MSI.
Client profile works only on clean XP. If your user as .Net 1 or 2 installed, client profile wont install...
You have an offline version (integrating Full .Net3.5 Install in case Client Wont install) 200 to 300Mo don't remember
Online version will get required files.
You can call a silent install from the first steps of your install.