Software Deployment

Have you checked the uninstall string in the registry following the installation - it should be located in the key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\JRE 1.3.1 ?

If it takes the following form :

C:\WINDOWS\IsUninst.exe -f"C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1\Uninst.isu"

You can modify this command to perform the silent installation as follows

C:\WINDOWS\IsUninst.exe -y -x -a -f"C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1\Uninst.isu"

This method works for JRE 1.3.1-b24, so hopefully it should work for 1.3.1_19

Regards,

Spartacus

Hi,

I did extract the uninstallstring from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{68249B7A-B714-11D7-88E8-0050DA21757E}\
RunDll32 C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\INSTAL~1\engine\6\INTEL3~1\Ctor.dll,LaunchSetup "C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{68249B7A-B714-11D7-88E8-0050DA21757E}\Setup.exe" -uninst

I prepared the response file while uninstallation and copied to C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{68249B7A-B714-11D7-88E8-0050DA21757E}\
as I already explained.

OK, so it looks like there is a difference between JRE 1.3.1_19 and the example I used which was 1.3.1-b24 .. oh, well it was worth a try :-)


Nevertheless, I note that your own uninstall string was

RunDll32 C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\INSTAL~1\engine\6\INTEL3~1\Ctor.dll,LaunchSetup "C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{68249B7A-B714-11D7-88E8-0050DA21757E}\Setup.exe" -uninst

so you should first try the following to record your uninstall response file

RunDll32 C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\INSTAL~1\engine\6\INTEL3~1\Ctor.dll,LaunchSetup "C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{68249B7A-B714-11D7-88E8-0050DA21757E}\Setup.exe" -uninst -r -f1"c:\temp\uninst.iss"

then move your uninst.iss to C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{68249B7A-B714-11D7-88E8-0050DA21757E} as you did before

then try

RunDll32 C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\INSTAL~1\engine\6\INTEL3~1\Ctor.dll,LaunchSetup "C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{68249B7A-B714-11D7-88E8-0050DA21757E}\Setup.exe" -uninst -s -f1"C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{68249B7A-B714-11D7-88E8-0050DA21757E}\uninst.iss"

In other words, I am suggesting you retain the RunDll32 C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\INSTAL~1\engine\6\INTEL3~1\Ctor.dll,LaunchSetup portion of the uninstall string, which you don't appear to be doing at the moment.

Regards,

Spartacus

JRE is - as an application - trivially simple, in terms of what it dumps on to a workstation. As such, removal is equally as simple. In the time you've spent faffing about trying to get the uninstall string to work, you could have built an uninstalling MSI by populating the RemoveFile and RemoveRegistry tables. At worst, you could have captured the uninstall..

Spartacus,

When we use RunDll32 commandline with repsonse file, receiving an error. This command is unable to recognise the switch -f1.

VbScab,

Yes, we can convert it into an MSI. we have done many in the past but curious to check if someone had answer/solution for this problem. If so, we can make use of the vendor supplied code rather than being converted into an MSI.

will try couple of other approaches, if nothing works out then we know the solution "Convert it into an MSI"