I am creating an update for an application built in install4j and I want to overwrite the files in the installation directory but keeping the configutation files. I manually edited some of them to never be overwriten but I cannot keep the files created by user input when installing it for the first time.
Is it possible to set a condition in the "Uninstall previous installation" so that it keeps the user's input? The user's input does not exist in the distribution tree. This means that I cannot manually edit it so that it is never uninstalled.
Why would you want to move the file? The response file you either load if it is an update or leave install4j to delete it.
The file is usually loaded on updates to use some variable the user set in the initial install, like a username, so you won't have to ask him again.
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After logging in to my Moodle as admin, I clicked the link to update to the latest available Moodle version. However, the new version won't work with my hosting site's MySQL version. Simple enough, I just selected the cancel button. Nope. The cancel button does nothing. Additionally, whenever I log in as admin, I am redirected to the update confirmation page where I can't actually perform the update or cancel the action. The web hosting service restored a previous version from backup, but the very next time I logged in as admin I was right back at the same update page.
Is there any way to unstage/delete/remove the "I want to update my Moodle" flag/action/request/whatever from the Moodle database/data files?
Thank you for your help!
When you download the new version of Moodle, it overwrites the existing files. You need to move all your files from the Moodle code directory (NOT your Moodle data directory) into another directory, then download a clean copy of your previous version of Moodle (from Moodle.org) and place it in your original directory.
Once that is done, you will need to copy across your config.php file, along with any extra plugins you had installed.
After that, you should be able to log back into your site and it should be back to running as normal again.
Before you do any future upgrades, there is a compatibility check built into Moodle itself (I think it is somewhere under site admin > server, but I don't have a site open at the moment to check). It is worth looking at that before downloading the upgrade.
I have taken over a click once project from a prior developer. How do I find out where his click once update folder was? The properties of the deployed apps only show where the appdata folder is. I need to know the original update location on the click once server so I can redeploy there, but the location that is stored in the project properties is wrong (as are all of the application configuration values) so I must have an old set of source code.
It's a bit of a shot in the dark, but if you have access to a machine that already has the application installed on it and if the application was configured to check for updates before running, you may be able to see the updates location within the app's CDF-MS file installed on that PC. The CDF-MS file is a binary file but you should be able to use STRINGS.exe or visually inspect it to find the beforeApplicationStartup or deploymentProvider value inside the file.
The file is likely located in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\RANDOM.STR\RANDOM.STR\manifests
How can I create script version update function like in datalife engine cms ? For example customer has version 1.0 and I have created version 1.5. And I want the user to be able to update the script version directly from admin panel. How can I do it ?
Notice: This is my own solution.
#Guilherme Soster has provided the basics on how to do it. However if you do not want to do it yourself you can check my php-updater solution. You can define what you want to add (overwrite or add) and delete as well as scripts you want to run in a YAML file.
well, basically you'll have to store the user system's version in some config file or database and have a server where you keep the latest version of your scripts.
Then when the user request to check for updates (or each time that the software runs) your update script should hit the server and get the latest version number, compare it with the one your user has stored and if the user one is inferior the script should download the new scripts from the server (usually to a temp directory). Now all that the update script has to do is remove the old scripts and move the new ones to the directories where they belong. Finally the update script should update the version in the confi file/database.
Many thanks in advance, I am using advanced installer 12.1, the scenario is we have already installed application with some custom location feature and is extends the default application location, this installation creates some folders to store temporary files like "Temporary" folder, this folder is used by the application on every minute basis and hence there are some files in this folder, now issue is when i run a new build or try to install the new version of the application, i again select the another custom location, before finishing the installation the installer deleting all the folders installed with older version but not deleting the folders which contains files created by the application e.g the temporary directory above is deleted if it is empty but when it is non-empty it is not removed.
Solution i tried:
1) I used file Removal tool to remove the file, but i think it point the current location and not pointing the older application path.
2) A custom VB script, but again the same issue as #1
3) I tried uninstall cleanup wizard, result #1
Please guide me how i can delete that folder, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
My Install4j configuration has no problem updating my executable and replacing the old instance.
However, my windows user profile is building up with each instance of the downloaded executable file:
install_1.0.0.exe
install_1.0.1.exe
install_1.0.2.exe
If I update to version 1.0.3, then I will see install_exe_1.0.3.exe stored here as well.
Is it possible for Install4j to delete this file upon update completion?
FWIW, this also occurs with Install4j updates. I have the following files in my user profile:
install4j_windows_5_1_10_with_jre.exe
install4j_windows_5_1_11_with_jre.exe
install4j_windows_5_1_12_with_jre.exe
install4j_windows_5_1_13_with_jre.exe
As of install4j 5.x, there is no clean-up mechanism for downloaded update installers, but you could build one yourself.
The place to add logic for deleting old installers would be in the updater. Each time a new installer is downloaded, you would have to save the download path to a persistent storage, such as the Java preferences store. When the updater is started, you could then load those saved paths and delete them.