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Issue #:|49464
Summary:|Installation directory unretrievable
Component:|Installation
Version:|OOo 2.0 Beta
Platform:|PC
URL:|
OS/Version:|Windows, all
Status:|UNCONFIRMED
Status whiteboard:|
Keywords:|
Resolution:|
Issue type:|DEFECT
Priority:|P3
Subcomponent:|code
Assigned to:|of
Reported by:|felfert
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 18 09:04:56 -0700
2005 -------
Hi,
I'm currently trying to prepare an Installer for a 3rd-party addon. In order to
do so, Ooo's install directory has to be determined somehow. In the MSI
documentation there's a package property mentioned for that purpose: TARGETDIR.
Unfortunately, this property is empty after installing 680m100. Also, the
corresponding registry value
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{A904C00C-30B0-4029-9048-7791E598208A}\InstallLocation
is empty. In order to find a method for determining Ooo's install path, i
installed Ooo in a non standard location (custom setup) and used the attached
test program for dumping the complete MSI database for Ooo. After that, a
recursive grep for the path chosen during installation could _not_ be found
_anywhere_.
There are some file associations present in the registry but these cannot be
used in a safe way since they are not removed during Ooo uninstall and probably
can be modified by 3rd-party software so they can point to nonexistent and/or
modified locations.
So basically, there's currently _no_ safe way to find out Ooo's install path
which is absolutely necessary for 3rd-party addons. From a 3rd-party developer's
perspective, this is a showstopper.
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