WordPerfect Software deployment

(imported topic written by zackidoo)

Hi all,

new to bif fix. Trying to deploy WordPerfect to our clients and successfully package the product. It copies the tmp file to the workstation but won’t launch the executable or the msi. When attempting to run the executable from the __Download location, it works.

Any ideas?

Here is the action details…

download http://mone0579.fja.gc.ca:52311/Uploads/e84ed75dae6972300e22e2f53384f97aa8d21750/big27A.tmp

continue if { (size of it = 584345974 and sha1 of it = “e84ed75dae6972300e22e2f53384f97aa8d21750”) of file “big27A.tmp” of folder “__Download”}

extract big27A.tmp

wait “__Download\Disk 1\WPOX3 (E)\WPOX\setup.exe”

(imported comment written by brolly3391)

Hello Zackidoo,

I just recently was involved in this for WP x3 for another client. We ended up not using the setup.exe as our installer but the .MSI file instead. Look in the setup.ini for the commandline that it would have passed to the MSI and use that directly instead of the call to setup.exe.

Basically, edit your existing task and change

wait “__Download\Disk 1\WPOX3 (E)\WPOX\setup.exe”

to

wait msiexec /i “__Download\Disk 1\WPOX3 (E)\WPOX+theMSIname+.msi” /qn /l*v “__Download\wpox3.log”

That should get you started. The MSI commandline we used had some other public properties that were getting passed but I do not have them available. Take a look at the setup.ini file for more help on what those might need to be. Let us know if you need more help.

Cheers,

Brolly

(imported comment written by zackidoo)

Thanks Brolly for the quick response. I will give it a try and post results.

Zackidoo

brolly33

Hello Zackidoo,

I just recently was involved in this for WP x3 for another client. We ended up not using the setup.exe as our installer but the .MSI file instead. Look in the setup.ini for the commandline that it would have passed to the MSI and use that directly instead of the call to setup.exe.

Basically, edit your existing task and change

wait “__Download\Disk 1\WPOX3 (E)\WPOX\setup.exe”

to

wait msiexec /i “__Download\Disk 1\WPOX3 (E)\WPOX+theMSIname+.msi” /qn /l*v “__Download\wpox3.log”

That should get you started. The MSI commandline we used had some other public properties that were getting passed but I do not have them available. Take a look at the setup.ini file for more help on what those might need to be. Let us know if you need more help.

Cheers,

Brolly

(imported comment written by zackidoo)

Excellent advice Brolly. Thanks again.

BTW, it seems that the tmp file and its contents reside on the clients machine. Is there a way to have them remove once the install is completed?

(imported comment written by jessewk)

The tmp file will eventually get removed by the client. Different versions have slightly different behavior, but you shouldn’t need to worry about it, as long as you are referring to the .tmp file located in the __Download folder.

-Jesse

(imported comment written by zackidoo)

Thanks for the information!