[wpkg-users] nsis silent uninstall not removing uninstall.exe

Stefan Pendl stefan.pendl.71 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 20:42:31 CEST 2012


Am 02.08.2012 19:41, schrieb Sebastian Elner:
> Hello,
>
> I have the problem that several uninstallers (InnoSetup and NSIS) do not
> remove their uninstall.exe/unins000.exe. For NSIS I can prove that this
> is not related to wpkg, the silent uninstall is also leaving the
> uninstall.exe on disk when executing uninstall.exe /S separately on the
> command line. Using the gui works fine. For InnoSetup I am unsure, but I
> do not suspect wpkg. Why are the uninstallers doing this? Does anyone
> have experience dealing with this stuff?
>
> Cheers
>
> Sebastian
>
>

The latest version of WPKG includes some package templates, which show 
how to get rid of all the files.

NSIS forks a second process if uninstalling silently, this can be 
prevented by the _?= command line switch.

Inno Setup doesn't have this issue.


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