Install XMetaL 5.5 Essential with silent mode

[wongsk27]

Dear All,

     Does anybody know how to install XMetaL 5.5 Essential with silent mode?

-Brian

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[Derek Read]

Hopefully this explains it well enough: http://forums.xmetal.com/index.php/topic,60.msg

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[LeeHart]

How do you detect whether the service pack is required? The installed version in the registry doesn't change when the service pack is installed. (HKLMSoftwareSoftQuadXMetaL 5.5 InstallerVersion value).

Currently I always run “MsiExec.Exe /Quiet /Update XMES-5.5-SP1.Msp” if the installed version is 5.5.093 but I'd rather be able to detect if the SP is needed.

Thanks,

Lee

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[Derek Read]

Perhaps you could incorporate a script similar to the following into your setup routines?

[code]var fso;
var version = “”
var xmetalPath = “C:\Program Files\XMetaL 5.5\Author\xmetal55.exe”;
fso = new ActiveXObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”);
version = fso.GetFileVersion();
fso = null;[/code]

This would need to be rewritten in the language of your setup scripts (if not JScript as above) of course.

You should be able to extract the path to xmetal..exe from this registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{3BBEE98D-742B-11D2-BD0A-00A024C36143}LocalServer32

However, as you are doing your installations silently that should not be necessary as you already know where it is being installed (usually the only way that path would differ is with a manual installation where someone overrode the default install path).

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[LeeHart]

The setup scrips are batch files. I use reg.exe to query/set the registry values. I guess I could use cscript.exe to run the jscript, but I was hoping for a cleaner solution (one less file).

Thanks,

Lee

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[Derek Read]

@LeeHart: So, is the issue that you are not sure which users have what installed and are worried that something might be overwritten?

Running the 5.5 SP1 installer on a machine that already has 5.5 SP1 installed should do nothing more than overwrite existing application files. The only files being patched here are related to the XMetaL Essential application itself (ie: nothing to do with any customization files you have created or installed).

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[LeeHart]

I'm just trying to avoid re-running the SP install if it's already installed. If there's not an easy way to detect it I'll pass on it for now. I dind't see any problems running it again but it's good to hear that there shouldn't be any problems.

Thanks,

Lee

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