Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product
Hi, I have tried and it seems that it will work if I can pass the following trouble. I get the uninstallstring using:Property Id=REGISTRYFOROLDINSTALLER RegistrySearch Id=OldInstallerRegistryKey Root=HKLM Key=SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\4553c9c9-172b-4d73-97d0-a667d4dd6685 Name=QuietUninstallString Type=file //Property This returns me: C:\Program Files (x86)\MyApplication\ Then I have a custom action to run the uninstaller string.CustomAction Id='uninstallOldInstallation' Property='REGISTRYFOROLDINSTALLER' ExeCommand='-S' Execute='immediate' Return='check' HideTarget='no' Impersonate='no'/CustomAction InstallExecuteSequenceCustom Action=uninstallOldInstallation Before=InstallFilesREGISTRYFOROLDINSTALLER/Custom/InstallExecuteSequence I got the following error in the debug logs:Error 1721. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action: uninstallOldInstallation, location: C:\Program Files (x86)\MyApplication\, command: uninstall.exe -S It should work fine to me but I have no clue why I am getting this error. I tried also type:raw in RegistrySearch but get the same error in the end. I'd appreciate if you could shed some light.Thanks. From: c...@live.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 05:19:49 + Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product I will give it a try and come back if it doesn't work. Thanks a lot. Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:41:06 -0500 From: jeremi...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product Sorry, I misunderstood as I am not familiar with InstallerJammer. I did find this though. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14334012/how-can-perform-a-silent-uninstall-with-installjammer Again, I'm not familiar with InstallerJammer and I'm assuming it doesn't use WindowsInstaller??? Since you can have only have one install/uninstall at one time on a windows machine this might not work if you try to uninstall during your new install. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Dolevo Jay c...@live.com wrote: Previous installer was InstallJammer. So, what would be the best solution for this? Should I call uninstaller of the previous installation in InstallExecuteSequence ? Any example for this? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:30:11 -0500 From: jeremi...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product What was the previous installer? On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Phill Hogland phogl...@rimage.com wrote: The update behavior of msiexec and the UpdateCode property are specific to MSI based technology. It would not know about other technologies like InstallJammer. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Unable-to-uninstall-previously-installed-product-tp7595380p7595383.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product
I have found the issue myself. Following code works perfect. RegistrySearch Id=OldInstallerRegistryKey Root=HKLM Key=SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\4553c9c9-172b-4d73-97d0-a667d4dd6685 Name=UninstallString Type=raw /CustomAction Id='uninstallOldInstallation' Property='REGISTRYFOROLDINSTALLER' ExeCommand='/mode silent' Execute='immediate' Return='check' HideTarget='no' Impersonate='no'/CustomAction Thanks a lot. From: c...@live.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:14:27 + Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product Hi, I have tried and it seems that it will work if I can pass the following trouble. I get the uninstallstring using:Property Id=REGISTRYFOROLDINSTALLER RegistrySearch Id=OldInstallerRegistryKey Root=HKLM Key=SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\4553c9c9-172b-4d73-97d0-a667d4dd6685 Name=QuietUninstallString Type=file //Property This returns me: C:\Program Files (x86)\MyApplication\ Then I have a custom action to run the uninstaller string.CustomAction Id='uninstallOldInstallation' Property='REGISTRYFOROLDINSTALLER' ExeCommand='-S' Execute='immediate' Return='check' HideTarget='no' Impersonate='no'/CustomAction InstallExecuteSequence Custom Action=uninstallOldInstallation Before=InstallFilesREGISTRYFOROLDINSTALLER/Custom/InstallExecuteSequence I got the following error in the debug logs:Error 1721. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action: uninstallOldInstallation, location: C:\Program Files (x86)\MyApplication\, command: uninstall.exe -S It should work fine to me but I have no clue why I am getting this error. I tried also type:raw in RegistrySearch but get the same error in the end. I'd appreciate if you could shed some light.Thanks. From: c...@live.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 05:19:49 + Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product I will give it a try and come back if it doesn't work. Thanks a lot. Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:41:06 -0500 From: jeremi...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product Sorry, I misunderstood as I am not familiar with InstallerJammer. I did find this though. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14334012/how-can-perform-a-silent-uninstall-with-installjammer Again, I'm not familiar with InstallerJammer and I'm assuming it doesn't use WindowsInstaller??? Since you can have only have one install/uninstall at one time on a windows machine this might not work if you try to uninstall during your new install. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Dolevo Jay c...@live.com wrote: Previous installer was InstallJammer. So, what would be the best solution for this? Should I call uninstaller of the previous installation in InstallExecuteSequence ? Any example for this? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:30:11 -0500 From: jeremi...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product What was the previous installer? On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Phill Hogland phogl...@rimage.com wrote: The update behavior of msiexec and the UpdateCode property are specific to MSI based technology. It would not know about other technologies like InstallJammer. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Unable-to-uninstall-previously-installed-product-tp7595380p7595383.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data
[WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product
Hi, I used different installer (InstallJammer) to install my application. I have now msi installer for the same application. Could you please tell me how I can uninstall previous installation since I find no upgrade code in installjammer? Or, is it only possible to update if the previous installation was also msi file? Is there any way to find the upgrade code in registry? Thanks. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product
The update behavior of msiexec and the UpdateCode property are specific to MSI based technology. It would not know about other technologies like InstallJammer. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Unable-to-uninstall-previously-installed-product-tp7595380p7595383.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product
What was the previous installer? On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Phill Hogland phogl...@rimage.com wrote: The update behavior of msiexec and the UpdateCode property are specific to MSI based technology. It would not know about other technologies like InstallJammer. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Unable-to-uninstall-previously-installed-product-tp7595380p7595383.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product
Previous installer was InstallJammer. So, what would be the best solution for this? Should I call uninstaller of the previous installation in InstallExecuteSequence ? Any example for this? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:30:11 -0500 From: jeremi...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product What was the previous installer? On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Phill Hogland phogl...@rimage.com wrote: The update behavior of msiexec and the UpdateCode property are specific to MSI based technology. It would not know about other technologies like InstallJammer. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Unable-to-uninstall-previously-installed-product-tp7595380p7595383.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product
I've seen this done by having the upgrade get the uninstall string from the registry, where there should be a command you can use since it's not MSI-based. Whether you should call it in the UI sequence or the execute sequence or both depends on your requirements for silent installs, meaning that you'd need to do it silently in the execute sequence, and perhaps need to alter the uninstall command to make it silent. The same general idea should work if that install has a standard uninstall shortcut you could get the command from. Either way, you're just using a CA to run an external program, or maybe a Util CAQuietExec kind of thing. --- Phil Wilson On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Dolevo Jay c...@live.com wrote: Previous installer was InstallJammer. So, what would be the best solution for this? Should I call uninstaller of the previous installation in InstallExecuteSequence ? Any example for this? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:30:11 -0500 From: jeremi...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product What was the previous installer? On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Phill Hogland phogl...@rimage.com wrote: The update behavior of msiexec and the UpdateCode property are specific to MSI based technology. It would not know about other technologies like InstallJammer. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Unable-to-uninstall-previously-installed-product-tp7595380p7595383.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product
Sorry, I misunderstood as I am not familiar with InstallerJammer. I did find this though. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14334012/how-can-perform-a-silent-uninstall-with-installjammer Again, I'm not familiar with InstallerJammer and I'm assuming it doesn't use WindowsInstaller??? Since you can have only have one install/uninstall at one time on a windows machine this might not work if you try to uninstall during your new install. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Dolevo Jay c...@live.com wrote: Previous installer was InstallJammer. So, what would be the best solution for this? Should I call uninstaller of the previous installation in InstallExecuteSequence ? Any example for this? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:30:11 -0500 From: jeremi...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product What was the previous installer? On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Phill Hogland phogl...@rimage.com wrote: The update behavior of msiexec and the UpdateCode property are specific to MSI based technology. It would not know about other technologies like InstallJammer. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Unable-to-uninstall-previously-installed-product-tp7595380p7595383.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product
**If it uses windows installer that is** Since you can have only have one install/uninstall at one time on a windows machine this might not work if you try to uninstall during your new install. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Jeremiahf jeremi...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I misunderstood as I am not familiar with InstallerJammer. I did find this though. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14334012/how-can-perform-a-silent-uninstall-with-installjammer Again, I'm not familiar with InstallerJammer and I'm assuming it doesn't use WindowsInstaller??? Since you can have only have one install/uninstall at one time on a windows machine this might not work if you try to uninstall during your new install. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Dolevo Jay c...@live.com wrote: Previous installer was InstallJammer. So, what would be the best solution for this? Should I call uninstaller of the previous installation in InstallExecuteSequence ? Any example for this? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:30:11 -0500 From: jeremi...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product What was the previous installer? On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Phill Hogland phogl...@rimage.com wrote: The update behavior of msiexec and the UpdateCode property are specific to MSI based technology. It would not know about other technologies like InstallJammer. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Unable-to-uninstall-previously-installed-product-tp7595380p7595383.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous -- They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product
I will give it a try and come back if it doesn't work. Thanks a lot. Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:41:06 -0500 From: jeremi...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product Sorry, I misunderstood as I am not familiar with InstallerJammer. I did find this though. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14334012/how-can-perform-a-silent-uninstall-with-installjammer Again, I'm not familiar with InstallerJammer and I'm assuming it doesn't use WindowsInstaller??? Since you can have only have one install/uninstall at one time on a windows machine this might not work if you try to uninstall during your new install. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Dolevo Jay c...@live.com wrote: Previous installer was InstallJammer. So, what would be the best solution for this? Should I call uninstaller of the previous installation in InstallExecuteSequence ? Any example for this? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:30:11 -0500 From: jeremi...@gmail.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall previously installed product What was the previous installer? On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Phill Hogland phogl...@rimage.com wrote: The update behavior of msiexec and the UpdateCode property are specific to MSI based technology. It would not know about other technologies like InstallJammer. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Unable-to-uninstall-previously-installed-product-tp7595380p7595383.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall
InstEd is a much better (free) tool than Orca if you absolutely have to open up MSI's - http://apps.instedit.com/ Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the Virtual Environment** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -Original Message- From: Stelios Kyprou [mailto:stelios.kyp...@formicary.net] Sent: 23 July 2010 18:04 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall I ended up fixing the msi... up to now i never got to use orca, but now i see the full potential of it and i understand why everyone suggests using this tool when writing installers... Good stuff! Rob Mensching wrote: Hmm, I would never recommend using that tool: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/3/6/More-on-Haacks-Troubleshoo ting-Windows-MSI-Installers http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/3/6/More-on-Haacks-Troublesho oting-Windows-MSI-InstallersUse recache/reinstall (msiexec /fv) with a fixed MSI instead. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Ryszard Boryna ryszard.bor...@nvable.comwrote: Had the same problem recently; http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459helped. You will need to manually cleanup program files etc., but this should let you run your (fixed :~) ) installer. Ryszard Ryszard Boryna, Solutions Architect Tel: 0141 280 0050 NVable is a limited company registered in Scotland. Registered number: SC287922. Suite 6/5, Skypark SP1, 8 Elliot Pl, Glasgow, G3 8EP -Original Message- From: Stelios Kyprou [mailto:stelios.kyp...@formicary.net] Sent: 23 July 2010 11:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Hey everyone, I made an installer with 2 custom actions, taking care of rollback as well. The problem is i messed up with one of them during uninstallation, and every time i try to unistall, it fails and the rollback takes place. So i am unable to uninstall (neither from the msi nor the control panel) Any ideas what i can do now? Regards, Stelios -- Stelios Kyprou Systems Engineer Formicary - delivering quality financial technology solutions(TM) www.formicary.net - --- This message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us. Any unauthorised dissemination, distribution or copying hereof is prohibited. Formicary Limited registered office in England and Wales, address 1 Taillar Road, Hedon, East Yorkshire HU12 8GU, registration number 3894343, VAT number 747644304, does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. - --- - - This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users - - This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Stelios Kyprou Systems Engineer Formicary - delivering quality financial technology solutions(TM) www.formicary.net This message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us. Any unauthorised dissemination, distribution or copying hereof is prohibited. Formicary Limited registered office in England and Wales, address 1 Taillar Road, Hedon, East Yorkshire HU12 8GU, registration number 3894343, VAT number 747644304, does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO
[WiX-users] Unable to uninstall
Hey everyone, I made an installer with 2 custom actions, taking care of rollback as well. The problem is i messed up with one of them during uninstallation, and every time i try to unistall, it fails and the rollback takes place. So i am unable to uninstall (neither from the msi nor the control panel) Any ideas what i can do now? Regards, Stelios -- Stelios Kyprou Systems Engineer Formicary - delivering quality financial technology solutions(TM) www.formicary.net This message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us. Any unauthorised dissemination, distribution or copying hereof is prohibited. Formicary Limited registered office in England and Wales, address 1 Taillar Road, Hedon, East Yorkshire HU12 8GU, registration number 3894343, VAT number 747644304, does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall
Had the same problem recently; http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459 helped. You will need to manually cleanup program files etc., but this should let you run your (fixed :~) ) installer. Ryszard Ryszard Boryna, Solutions Architect Tel: 0141 280 0050 NVable is a limited company registered in Scotland. Registered number: SC287922. Suite 6/5, Skypark SP1, 8 Elliot Pl, Glasgow, G3 8EP -Original Message- From: Stelios Kyprou [mailto:stelios.kyp...@formicary.net] Sent: 23 July 2010 11:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Hey everyone, I made an installer with 2 custom actions, taking care of rollback as well. The problem is i messed up with one of them during uninstallation, and every time i try to unistall, it fails and the rollback takes place. So i am unable to uninstall (neither from the msi nor the control panel) Any ideas what i can do now? Regards, Stelios -- Stelios Kyprou Systems Engineer Formicary - delivering quality financial technology solutions(TM) www.formicary.net This message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us. Any unauthorised dissemination, distribution or copying hereof is prohibited. Formicary Limited registered office in England and Wales, address 1 Taillar Road, Hedon, East Yorkshire HU12 8GU, registration number 3894343, VAT number 747644304, does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall
Cleanup utilities are a last resort because they can leave the machine in a corrupted state. You have a better option: Rebuild your msi *exactly* as before but with the custom action corrected or removed, (or it might be easier to edit it with orca to achieve the same result). Reinstall and recache the new MSI with msiexec /fv and then uninstall the now corrected version. Rob discussed the issue in a blog post http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/3/6/More-on-Haacks-Troubleshooti ng-Windows-MSI-Installers -Original Message- From: Ryszard Boryna [mailto:ryszard.bor...@nvable.com] Sent: 23 July 2010 12:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Had the same problem recently; http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459 helped. You will need to manually cleanup program files etc., but this should let you run your (fixed :~) ) installer. Ryszard Ryszard Boryna, Solutions Architect Tel: 0141 280 0050 NVable is a limited company registered in Scotland. Registered number: SC287922. Suite 6/5, Skypark SP1, 8 Elliot Pl, Glasgow, G3 8EP -Original Message- From: Stelios Kyprou [mailto:stelios.kyp...@formicary.net] Sent: 23 July 2010 11:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Hey everyone, I made an installer with 2 custom actions, taking care of rollback as well. The problem is i messed up with one of them during uninstallation, and every time i try to unistall, it fails and the rollback takes place. So i am unable to uninstall (neither from the msi nor the control panel) Any ideas what i can do now? Regards, Stelios -- Stelios Kyprou Systems Engineer Formicary - delivering quality financial technology solutions(TM) www.formicary.net This message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us. Any unauthorised dissemination, distribution or copying hereof is prohibited. Formicary Limited registered office in England and Wales, address 1 Taillar Road, Hedon, East Yorkshire HU12 8GU, registration number 3894343, VAT number 747644304, does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users /pre BR style=font-size:4px; a href = http://www.sdl.com;img src=http://www.sdl.com/images/email logo_150dpi-01.png alt=www.sdl.com border=0//a BR font face=arial size=2 a href = http://www.sdl.com; style=color:005740; font-weight: boldwww.sdl.com/a BR BR font face=arial size=1 color=#736F6E bSDL PLC confidential, all rights reserved./b If you are not the intended recipient of this mail SDL requests and requires that you delete it without acting upon or copying any of its contents, and we further request that you advise us.BR SDL PLC is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 02675207.BR Registered address: Globe House, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DY, UK. /font -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall
I would like to also strongly recommend Peter's advice on only using Windows Installer clean up utilities as the very last resort when everything else fails. We've had to rebuild a users Vista SP2 machine recently because he took IT matters into his own inexperienced hands, googled MSICUU.exe broke his installation of our own software so it no longer uninstalls properly (component reference counts are permanently set to 1, re-installing the app sets them to 2, uninstalling won't remove files registry entries as the component reference counts are only decremented to 1 with no way of decrementing them to 0). Also test your packages using Virtualization as Bob A. recommends on his blog you should catch these issues before you ship your package - http://www.joyofsetup.com/2007/09/24/test-your-setups-virtually/ On a VM you don't even need to fix the below issue for that installation, just revert the VM back to before you installed, fix your code, build it try again. Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the Virtual Environment** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: 23 July 2010 12:47 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Cleanup utilities are a last resort because they can leave the machine in a corrupted state. You have a better option: Rebuild your msi *exactly* as before but with the custom action corrected or removed, (or it might be easier to edit it with orca to achieve the same result). Reinstall and recache the new MSI with msiexec /fv and then uninstall the now corrected version. Rob discussed the issue in a blog post http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/3/6/More-on-Haacks-Troubleshooti ng-Windows-MSI-Installers -Original Message- From: Ryszard Boryna [mailto:ryszard.bor...@nvable.com] Sent: 23 July 2010 12:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Had the same problem recently; http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459 helped. You will need to manually cleanup program files etc., but this should let you run your (fixed :~) ) installer. Ryszard Ryszard Boryna, Solutions Architect Tel: 0141 280 0050 NVable is a limited company registered in Scotland. Registered number: SC287922. Suite 6/5, Skypark SP1, 8 Elliot Pl, Glasgow, G3 8EP -Original Message- From: Stelios Kyprou [mailto:stelios.kyp...@formicary.net] Sent: 23 July 2010 11:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Hey everyone, I made an installer with 2 custom actions, taking care of rollback as well. The problem is i messed up with one of them during uninstallation, and every time i try to unistall, it fails and the rollback takes place. So i am unable to uninstall (neither from the msi nor the control panel) Any ideas what i can do now? Regards, Stelios -- Stelios Kyprou Systems Engineer Formicary - delivering quality financial technology solutions(TM) www.formicary.net This message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us. Any unauthorised dissemination, distribution or copying hereof is prohibited. Formicary Limited registered office in England and Wales, address 1 Taillar Road, Hedon, East Yorkshire HU12 8GU, registration number 3894343, VAT number 747644304, does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users /pre BR style=font-size:4px; a href = http://www.sdl.com;img src=http://www.sdl.com/images/email logo_150dpi-01
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I think i can use orca to fix my problem...i actually have a custom action that tries to get a file from the installlocation, and get some data from there(while uninstalling) but i accidentally added that action after the deletefiles action. So i can change that with orca. The problem now is: I don't have the msi anymore. I have the GUID. How can i get the msi? as in where does control panel grab it from when uninstalling a program? I am using windows vista Pally Sandher wrote: I would like to also strongly recommend Peter's advice on only using Windows Installer clean up utilities as the very last resort when everything else fails. We've had to rebuild a users Vista SP2 machine recently because he took IT matters into his own inexperienced hands, googled MSICUU.exe broke his installation of our own software so it no longer uninstalls properly (component reference counts are permanently set to 1, re-installing the app sets them to 2, uninstalling won't remove files registry entries as the component reference counts are only decremented to 1 with no way of decrementing them to 0). Also test your packages using Virtualization as Bob A. recommends on his blog you should catch these issues before you ship your package - http://www.joyofsetup.com/2007/09/24/test-your-setups-virtually/ On a VM you don't even need to fix the below issue for that installation, just revert the VM back to before you installed, fix your code, build it try again. Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the Virtual Environment** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: 23 July 2010 12:47 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Cleanup utilities are a last resort because they can leave the machine in a corrupted state. You have a better option: Rebuild your msi *exactly* as before but with the custom action corrected or removed, (or it might be easier to edit it with orca to achieve the same result). Reinstall and recache the new MSI with msiexec /fv and then uninstall the now corrected version. Rob discussed the issue in a blog post http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/3/6/More-on-Haacks-Troubleshooti ng-Windows-MSI-Installers -Original Message- From: Ryszard Boryna [mailto:ryszard.bor...@nvable.com] Sent: 23 July 2010 12:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Had the same problem recently; http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459 helped. You will need to manually cleanup program files etc., but this should let you run your (fixed :~) ) installer. Ryszard Ryszard Boryna, Solutions Architect Tel: 0141 280 0050 NVable is a limited company registered in Scotland. Registered number: SC287922. Suite 6/5, Skypark SP1, 8 Elliot Pl, Glasgow, G3 8EP -Original Message- From: Stelios Kyprou [mailto:stelios.kyp...@formicary.net] Sent: 23 July 2010 11:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Hey everyone, I made an installer with 2 custom actions, taking care of rollback as well. The problem is i messed up with one of them during uninstallation, and every time i try to unistall, it fails and the rollback takes place. So i am unable to uninstall (neither from the msi nor the control panel) Any ideas what i can do now? Regards, Stelios -- Stelios Kyprou Systems Engineer Formicary - delivering quality financial technology solutions(TM) www.formicary.net This message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us. Any unauthorised dissemination, distribution or copying hereof is prohibited. Formicary Limited registered office in England and Wales, address 1 Taillar Road, Hedon, East Yorkshire HU12 8GU, registration number 3894343, VAT number 747644304, does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users
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If you know what the error is and how to correct it, you can perform a small update to replace your package and then uninstall. -Original Message- From: Stelios Kyprou [mailto:stelios.kyp...@formicary.net] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 3:43 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Hey everyone, I made an installer with 2 custom actions, taking care of rollback as well. The problem is i messed up with one of them during uninstallation, and every time i try to unistall, it fails and the rollback takes place. So i am unable to uninstall (neither from the msi nor the control panel) Any ideas what i can do now? Regards, Stelios -- Stelios Kyprou Systems Engineer Formicary - delivering quality financial technology solutions(TM) www.formicary.net This message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us. Any unauthorised dissemination, distribution or copying hereof is prohibited. Formicary Limited registered office in England and Wales, address 1 Taillar Road, Hedon, East Yorkshire HU12 8GU, registration number 3894343, VAT number 747644304, does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall
In your verbose unisntall log (you are generating an uninstall log when you run) you can gather the name/path of the cached/stripped MSI that Installer is using, along with the original name you will need your MSI to be named in order to use your updated one to recache the package. Be sure to change the package code in orca when you change your sequence (if you don't change the package code, Windows Installer may think there are no changes and ignore the request to recache). -Original Message- From: Stelios Kyprou [mailto:stelios.kyp...@formicary.net] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 8:40 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall I think i can use orca to fix my problem...i actually have a custom action that tries to get a file from the installlocation, and get some data from there(while uninstalling) but i accidentally added that action after the deletefiles action. So i can change that with orca. The problem now is: I don't have the msi anymore. I have the GUID. How can i get the msi? as in where does control panel grab it from when uninstalling a program? I am using windows vista Pally Sandher wrote: I would like to also strongly recommend Peter's advice on only using Windows Installer clean up utilities as the very last resort when everything else fails. We've had to rebuild a users Vista SP2 machine recently because he took IT matters into his own inexperienced hands, googled MSICUU.exe broke his installation of our own software so it no longer uninstalls properly (component reference counts are permanently set to 1, re-installing the app sets them to 2, uninstalling won't remove files registry entries as the component reference counts are only decremented to 1 with no way of decrementing them to 0). Also test your packages using Virtualization as Bob A. recommends on his blog you should catch these issues before you ship your package - http://www.joyofsetup.com/2007/09/24/test-your-setups-virtually/ On a VM you don't even need to fix the below issue for that installation, just revert the VM back to before you installed, fix your code, build it try again. Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the Virtual Environment** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -Original Message- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: 23 July 2010 12:47 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Cleanup utilities are a last resort because they can leave the machine in a corrupted state. You have a better option: Rebuild your msi *exactly* as before but with the custom action corrected or removed, (or it might be easier to edit it with orca to achieve the same result). Reinstall and recache the new MSI with msiexec /fv and then uninstall the now corrected version. Rob discussed the issue in a blog post http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/3/6/More-on-Haacks-Troubleshooti ng-Windows-MSI-Installers -Original Message- From: Ryszard Boryna [mailto:ryszard.bor...@nvable.com] Sent: 23 July 2010 12:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Had the same problem recently; http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459 helped. You will need to manually cleanup program files etc., but this should let you run your (fixed :~) ) installer. Ryszard Ryszard Boryna, Solutions Architect Tel: 0141 280 0050 NVable is a limited company registered in Scotland. Registered number: SC287922. Suite 6/5, Skypark SP1, 8 Elliot Pl, Glasgow, G3 8EP -Original Message- From: Stelios Kyprou [mailto:stelios.kyp...@formicary.net] Sent: 23 July 2010 11:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Hey everyone, I made an installer with 2 custom actions, taking care of rollback as well. The problem is i messed up with one of them during uninstallation, and every time i try to unistall, it fails and the rollback takes place. So i am unable to uninstall (neither from the msi nor the control panel) Any ideas what i can do now? Regards, Stelios -- Stelios Kyprou Systems Engineer Formicary - delivering quality financial technology solutions(TM) www.formicary.net This message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us. Any unauthorised dissemination, distribution or copying hereof is prohibited. Formicary Limited registered
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall
Hmm, I would never recommend using that tool: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/3/6/More-on-Haacks-Troubleshooting-Windows-MSI-Installers http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/3/6/More-on-Haacks-Troubleshooting-Windows-MSI-InstallersUse recache/reinstall (msiexec /fv) with a fixed MSI instead. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Ryszard Boryna ryszard.bor...@nvable.comwrote: Had the same problem recently; http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459helped. You will need to manually cleanup program files etc., but this should let you run your (fixed :~) ) installer. Ryszard Ryszard Boryna, Solutions Architect Tel: 0141 280 0050 NVable is a limited company registered in Scotland. Registered number: SC287922. Suite 6/5, Skypark SP1, 8 Elliot Pl, Glasgow, G3 8EP -Original Message- From: Stelios Kyprou [mailto:stelios.kyp...@formicary.net] Sent: 23 July 2010 11:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Hey everyone, I made an installer with 2 custom actions, taking care of rollback as well. The problem is i messed up with one of them during uninstallation, and every time i try to unistall, it fails and the rollback takes place. So i am unable to uninstall (neither from the msi nor the control panel) Any ideas what i can do now? Regards, Stelios -- Stelios Kyprou Systems Engineer Formicary - delivering quality financial technology solutions(TM) www.formicary.net This message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us. Any unauthorised dissemination, distribution or copying hereof is prohibited. Formicary Limited registered office in England and Wales, address 1 Taillar Road, Hedon, East Yorkshire HU12 8GU, registration number 3894343, VAT number 747644304, does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall
I ended up fixing the msi... up to now i never got to use orca, but now i see the full potential of it and i understand why everyone suggests using this tool when writing installers... Good stuff! Rob Mensching wrote: Hmm, I would never recommend using that tool: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/3/6/More-on-Haacks-Troubleshooting-Windows-MSI-Installers http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2009/3/6/More-on-Haacks-Troubleshooting-Windows-MSI-InstallersUse recache/reinstall (msiexec /fv) with a fixed MSI instead. On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Ryszard Boryna ryszard.bor...@nvable.comwrote: Had the same problem recently; http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459helped. You will need to manually cleanup program files etc., but this should let you run your (fixed :~) ) installer. Ryszard Ryszard Boryna, Solutions Architect Tel: 0141 280 0050 NVable is a limited company registered in Scotland. Registered number: SC287922. Suite 6/5, Skypark SP1, 8 Elliot Pl, Glasgow, G3 8EP -Original Message- From: Stelios Kyprou [mailto:stelios.kyp...@formicary.net] Sent: 23 July 2010 11:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Unable to uninstall Hey everyone, I made an installer with 2 custom actions, taking care of rollback as well. The problem is i messed up with one of them during uninstallation, and every time i try to unistall, it fails and the rollback takes place. So i am unable to uninstall (neither from the msi nor the control panel) Any ideas what i can do now? Regards, Stelios -- Stelios Kyprou Systems Engineer Formicary - delivering quality financial technology solutions(TM) www.formicary.net This message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us. Any unauthorised dissemination, distribution or copying hereof is prohibited. Formicary Limited registered office in England and Wales, address 1 Taillar Road, Hedon, East Yorkshire HU12 8GU, registration number 3894343, VAT number 747644304, does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Stelios Kyprou Systems Engineer Formicary - delivering quality financial technology solutions(TM) www.formicary.net This message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform us. Any unauthorised dissemination, distribution or copying hereof is prohibited. Formicary Limited registered office in England and Wales, address 1 Taillar Road, Hedon, East Yorkshire HU12 8GU, registration number 3894343, VAT number 747644304, does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
