Mark Nienberg schrieb: > I'm working on rolling out Autodesk Revit Structure 2008, but I think this will apply > to all of the current Autodesk Autocad and Revit versions. It seems Autodesk is > using a different install program now. I think they used to use Installshield? > Maybe this new thing is their own invention. > > The install is a two step process, like always. First create a deployment on your > network, then run a setup program on each workstation. The setup program is a front > end for various msi files that do the actual installation. It checks for > prerequisites and sets some parameters. > > In my testing with WPKG I could not get a successful installation. WPKG starts the > "setup.exe", and the setup eventually runs the msi to install the program, but then > WPKG looks for and fails to find the uninstall string and reports that the > installation failed. Meanwhile setup is still running (I think) apparently calling > other programs to do some final configuration, which may be when the uninstall > program is actually configured. In any event, it seems like a timing problem, where > WPKG doesn't wait long enough before doing the "check", or more likely, setup > indicates that it is finished when it really isn't. > > I've kind of worked around it, but it is ugly. Does anyone have any experience with > this or any insight? It looks like you have to find which components take longer to install, and make a slight pause? Something like "ping -c 30 127.0.0.1 >nul" to make a 30 sec. pause. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users |