[wpkg-users] problem with "interactive" installers

[Falko Trojahn]

Hi Aleks,

> 
> My organization has been using WPKG for the past month or two, and
> it's been great -- much better than repackaging! :) In the past few
> days, however, I've noticed a few weird issues with WPKG when it's run
> as a scheduled task. Specifically:
> 
> - The Firefox installer hangs.
for Firefox you must make sure that no other firefox instance is
running, so especially when running as scheduled task and a user might
be using Firefox at that moment: perhaps you have to kill firefox by
using taskkill or pskill (see http://wpkg.org/Firefox)

> - The Cygwin installer refuses to pop up any kind of dialog box, and thus hangs.
You could check the "show gui" option in Wpkginst when using Wpkg Client.

> 
> We had the same issue when trying out the WPKG client. The only way
> we've been able to avoid this problem is by invoking WPKG
> interactively, often by using psexec.
> 
> Has anyone experienced similar problems?
> 
> (This is occurring on Vista.)
No, but I could try this later this week on Vista.

Best regards,
Falko