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[felltier-a]

Hi all,

 

i have a problem regarding a Major upgrade for my application.

 

I created an Installation 1.0 (Installscript MSI). Now i´m supposed to do a Major upgrade 1.1. I changed the Productcode, Productversion and so on. I have chosen to uninstall the old install before installing the new one. On install, the Setup has written something like "removing older Versions". At this point, a message comes up: "This installation cannot be run by directly launching the MSI package. You must run setup.exe." The uninstall fails and nothing gets uninstalled.

 

I played around with the custom action "ISVerifyScriptingRuntime" of the 1.0 - Setup. If this custom Action doesn´t get startet at uninstall, the Major update went just fine but I´m not sure if this is the correct way. I´m very sure that i made a Major upgrade some years ago and had not to change the condition for this Standard Action.

 

Has anyone an idea how to do it correctly?

 

regards,

Udo

[Stefan Krueger]

I would recommend using "Basic MSI" instead of "InstallScript MSI".

[Glytzhkof]

I would also recommend switching to Basic MSI due to all the serious bugs encountered in Installscript MSI. See this thread and its links for discussion: http://forum.install...showtopic=19783. This is the most important linked thread: http://forum.install...?showtopic=8734

 

See this answer for a long list of benefits with Basic MSI files that are not properly there with Installscript MSI:

http://serverfault.c...using-msi-files

 

Installscript MSI needs a runtime for its Installscript language. This prerequisite setup was generally included in the setup.exe, and it was a legendary source of problems that should now be fixed. However, there is a legacy support site from Installshield for issues such as these: http://consumer.installshield.com/common.asp

Edited by Glytzhkof, 16 December 2014 - 12:03.
Simplifying.