RE: [Unattended] Can Active Perl be uninstalled before the Unattended instalation is ended?
Personally I don't see the need either... What we do is delete the entry in the Start Menu by simple having a batch file clean them up. I can see the need for the users not knowing an extra piece of software is there, but not to remove it... Steve (01908) 580623 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick J. LoPresti Sent: 15 January 2004 14:48 To: DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Unattended] Can Active Perl be uninstalled before the Unattended instalation is ended? DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If so, when should it be uninstalled in order to have everithing else work? I do not understand why anybody would want this. Having Perl is no different than having Visual Basic, and nobody asks about uninstalling THAT. But you are the third person to ask, so... It may be tricky. Everything in Unattended, including the code which cleans up the registry and reboots at the very end, is written in Perl. I do not know what will happen if you try to uninstall Perl from within a Perl script. Maybe it will just work. You can use msiexec /x to uninstall the package. The first thing I would try is putting it just before the final .reboot directive in the initial todo.txt file. If that doesn't work, then we have a problem. I am not particularly inclined to work on this, although I will accept patches if they are clean. - Pat --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. Dominos Pizza Group Ltd - 01908 58 - www.dominos.co.uk ** --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Can Active Perl be uninstalled before the Unattended instalation is ended?
At 09:48 AM 1/15/2004, you wrote:
DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If so, when should it be uninstalled in order to have everithing
else work?
I do not understand why anybody would want this. Having Perl is no
different than having Visual Basic, and nobody asks about uninstalling
THAT. But you are the third person to ask, so...
That's because people people install Visual Basic to design programs, but
then distribute the programs with the vb runtime. With Perl, you have to
the program installed for the scripts to run.
It may be tricky. Everything in Unattended, including the code which
cleans up the registry and reboots at the very end, is written in
Perl. I do not know what will happen if you try to uninstall Perl
from within a Perl script. Maybe it will just work.
You can use msiexec /x to uninstall the package. The first thing I
would try is putting it just before the final .reboot directive in the
initial todo.txt file. If that doesn't work, then we have a problem.
I am not particularly inclined to work on this, although I will accept
patches if they are clean.
- Pat
To uninstall ActivePerl 5.8.1.807 you can run MsiExec.exe
/x{2A0016A1-1150-4147-A618-E34C18F1AAA7} /qb and it will uninstall without
any prompts. The problem is that each version of Perl uses a different {}
string, so you may have to look up the correct string if your using a
different version.
I was thinking, although I haven't tried it yet, of putting in the
site\unattend.txt under meta:
bottem=cleanup.bat
In there I would have regedit \s uninstperl.reg
and in the .reg I would have it under
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx]
uninstperl=MsiExec.exe /x{2A0016A1-1150-4147-A618-E34C18F1AAA7} /qb
Like I said, and idea, but one I'll try later.
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Re: [Unattended] Can Active Perl be uninstalled before the Unattended instalation is ended?
DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If so, when should it be uninstalled in order to have everithing else work? I do not understand why anybody would want this. Having Perl is no different than having Visual Basic, and nobody asks about uninstalling THAT. But you are the third person to ask, so... It may be tricky. Everything in Unattended, including the code which cleans up the registry and reboots at the very end, is written in Perl. I do not know what will happen if you try to uninstall Perl from within a Perl script. Maybe it will just work. You can use msiexec /x to uninstall the package. The first thing I would try is putting it just before the final .reboot directive in the initial todo.txt file. If that doesn't work, then we have a problem. I am not particularly inclined to work on this, although I will accept patches if they are clean. - Pat --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
