Sign in. Skip auxiliary navigation Press Enter. Skip main navigation Press Enter. Toggle navigation. Search Options. Wise Packaging. Expand all Collapse all sort by most recent sort by thread. I need to get a file from my installation lost the original support file which is not installed Thanks Edt, I've been searching for this for the past 8 hours, everything out there addresses h Great minds think alike..!
Link to my topic.. Posted by: aogilmor 14 years ago. You'll still need to clean it up though. Just curious, what does the wse do and how come it can't just be done with an msi?
Good luck. Do you know a way to realize that? If so how? With the WiseDis tool? Sometimes I just find it very comfortable and easy to add a WiseScript as a Custom Action in this case edit an.
Posted by: AngelD 14 years ago. Hi Roland, If the WiseScript exe isn't that big have you tried open it with ex. Posted by: WayneB 14 years ago. Roland, I've not tried this and I'm probably wrong but To prevent caching a huge MSI file, you should run an admin-install of the package before installing. This is how a company with proper deployment in a managed network would do things, and it will strip out the cab files and make a network install point with a small MSI file and files besides it.
Please read the stackoverflow post linked above for more details. It is quite an important concept for system administrators , application packagers , setup developers , release managers , and even the average user to see what they are installing etc You can perform an admin-install in a few different ways depending on how the installer is delivered.
Essentially it is either delivered as an MSI file or wrapped in an setup. Run these commands from an elevated command prompt , and follow the instructions in the GUI for the interactive command lines:. A setup. For legacy setup. It is a good reference for silent installation and other things as well. Another resource is this list of Installshield setup. MSP can be applied to an admin image to properly extract its files.
Finally - the last resort - if no other way works, you can get hold of extracted setup files by cleaning out the temp folder on your system, launch the setup.
In most cases the installer will have extracted a bunch of files to a temp folder. Sometimes the files are plain, other times in CAB format, but Winzip, 7Zip or even Universal Extractor haven't tested this product - may be able to open these. The only way to do that is running the exe and collect the MSI. I do not know which tool built your self-extracting Setup program and so, I will have to provide a general response.
Most programs of this nature extract the package file. This behavior is the default behavior of InstallShield Developer. Without additional information, I would recommend that you simply launch the setup and once the first MSI dialog is displayed, you can examine your TEMP directory for a newly created sub-directory or MSI file. After that you can cancel the installation. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 12 years, 3 months ago. Active 2 years, 10 months ago. Viewed k times. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Daniel Dreibrodt Daniel Dreibrodt 1, 1 1 gold badge 9 9 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. This solution should be upvoted! It works without extra tools, the setup. Uses a lot of undocumented options though not shown by "setup. The parameters are documented at helpnet.
If there is an msi, GPO will take it all the way. If you only have an exe, then it depends on the program You'd have to set flags for options, install path, next, etc. If the software is from a large company, they may have these things published somewhere or an. I've seen small or custom exe's that don't have any cmd line details available. This would be incredibly difficult to automate! I am not in a domain environment, therefore no GPO. I am trying to install Slack onto a desktop as apart of a bunch of other scripts that run.
I have the. I have tried this but it did not work. Are you trying to install the. That one is pretty easy. Now I am getting: This installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify this is a valid windows installer.
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