Upgrade old unmanaged Realplayer versions
Hi all,
As there's no MSI with Realplayer Gold 10.5, I packaged it with WinInstall LE. I want to deploy it to machines having already previous versions of Realplayer from at least version 7 to RealOne. I deploy via GPO. Those old versions were not deployed via GPO, so these are normal installations with Realplayer setup. Is there a way to upgrade these versions or uninstall them via MSI with GPO or not?
As there's no MSI with Realplayer Gold 10.5, I packaged it with WinInstall LE. I want to deploy it to machines having already previous versions of Realplayer from at least version 7 to RealOne. I deploy via GPO. Those old versions were not deployed via GPO, so these are normal installations with Realplayer setup. Is there a way to upgrade these versions or uninstall them via MSI with GPO or not?
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Posted by:
nheim
17 years ago
Hi Luc,
You have to use Custom Actions to achieve this goal.
Use the uninstall string, which the apps store here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ --> e.g. RealPlayer 6.0
You could use an Appsearch action to populate a property with that key. But mostlikely, you have to alter the uninstall string (put "" around it and add the -s switch for killing the dialogs).
Hope this gives you some ideas.
Regards, Nick
You have to use Custom Actions to achieve this goal.
Use the uninstall string, which the apps store here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ --> e.g. RealPlayer 6.0
You could use an Appsearch action to populate a property with that key. But mostlikely, you have to alter the uninstall string (put "" around it and add the -s switch for killing the dialogs).
Hope this gives you some ideas.
Regards, Nick
Posted by:
lfontaine
17 years ago
Thanks Nick for the reply,
I will test that. Also, is it possible with that to have multiple CustomActions with each an uninstall string of different Realplayer versions? Because some stations might have Realplayer 6, others 7 etc... without crashing because the version is not installed!
I will test that. Also, is it possible with that to have multiple CustomActions with each an uninstall string of different Realplayer versions? Because some stations might have Realplayer 6, others 7 etc... without crashing because the version is not installed!
Posted by:
nheim
17 years ago
Hi Luc,
yes, of course! Just use the property from AppSearch to condition the CA in the sequence table.
Regards, Nick
yes, of course! Just use the property from AppSearch to condition the CA in the sequence table.
Regards, Nick
Posted by:
lfontaine
17 years ago
Hi Nick,
Your solution is surely good but as I'm just a beginner in the MSI domain, could you be more explicit on the steps to doing the whole process (CustomActions and Appsearch) please? As I said, I packaged Realplayer 10.5 with Wininstall LE and I'm using ORCA to edit the MSI tables, I don't have any other software to play with MSI.
Thank you
Your solution is surely good but as I'm just a beginner in the MSI domain, could you be more explicit on the steps to doing the whole process (CustomActions and Appsearch) please? As I said, I packaged Realplayer 10.5 with Wininstall LE and I'm using ORCA to edit the MSI tables, I don't have any other software to play with MSI.
Thank you
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