[wpkg-users] newbie Question

Fri Feb 1 10:06:52 CET 2013

Hey Falko,

thanks a lot for your help. Using the report tool I managed to find a few problems which seem to exist for nearly every one of our PCs. Perhaps you guys can help me solve them since I am bit lost.

When looking in the log files I realized that installation of Adobe Reader 11.0.0 always fails:
2013-02-01 09:54:34, INFO    : Package 'Adobe Reader' (adobereader): Already installed but version mismatch.|Installed revision: '10.1.0'|Available revision: '11.0.00'.|Preparing upgrade.
2013-02-01 09:54:34, INFO    : Installing 'Adobe Reader' (adobereader)...
2013-02-01 09:55:05, ERROR   : Could not process (upgrade) package 'Adobe Reader' (adobereader):|Exit code returned non-successful value (1624) on command 'msiexec /qn /i "%SOFTWARE%\adobereader\AdbeRdr11000_de_DE.msi" TRANSFORMS="%SOFTWARE%\adobereader\AcroRead.mst"'.

Same goes for firefox 18.0.1:
2013-02-01 09:55:05, INFO    : Package 'Mozilla Firefox' (firefox): Already installed but version mismatch.|Installed revision: '9.0.1'|Available revision: '50'.|Preparing upgrade.
2013-02-01 09:55:05, INFO    : Installing 'Mozilla Firefox' (firefox)...
2013-02-01 09:55:08, INFO    : Command 'taskkill /F /IM Firefox.exe' returned  exit code [128]. This exit code indicates success.
2013-02-01 09:55:08, INFO    : Command in installation of Mozilla Firefox returned exit code [128]. This exit code indicates success.
2013-02-01 09:55:26, ERROR   : Could not process (upgrade) Mozilla Firefox.|Failed checking after installation.

Or vlc player:
2013-02-01 09:55:27, INFO    : Package 'VideoLAN Client' (vlc): Not installed (checks failed). Preparing installation.
2013-02-01 09:55:27, INFO    : Installing 'VideoLAN Client' (vlc)...
2013-02-01 09:55:27, ERROR   : Command '"%SOFTWARE%\vlc\vlc-%version%-win32.exe" /S /NCRC' ('"\\winfile.uni-giessen.de\ggk\Software_Synchronisation\vlc\vlc-1.1.7-win32.exe" /S /NCRC') was unsuccessful.|Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.|
2013-02-01 09:55:27, ERROR   : Could not process (install) package 'VideoLAN Client' (vlc):|Exit code returned non-successful value (-1) on command '"%SOFTWARE%\vlc\vlc-%version%-win32.exe" /S /NCRC'.

The relevant questions for me seem to be:
Adobe Reader - What is error code 1624 and how to get rid of it?

Firefox - Why there an exit code which indicates success but installation fails nevertheless?

Vlc - Why does the installation try to use vlc-1.1.7 although I have specified following in the package of vlc:

<variable name="version" value="2.0.5"/>
...
<install cmd=""%SOFTWARE%\vlc\vlc-%version%-win32.exe" /S"/>

Any advice would be veeeery welcome. ;)

Yours,
Michael
--
Michael Mosel | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter 
Website 
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) 
Gießen Graduate School for the Humanities (GGK) 
Justus Liebig University Gießen 
Alter Steinbacher Weg 38
35394 Gießen
Germany

Tel.: +49.641.993 00 43
Tel.: +49.641.993 00 41 (GCSC Office)
Michael.Mosel at gcsc.uni-giessen.de 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Falko Trojahn [mailto:wpkg at trojahn.de]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2013 14:53
> To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
> Cc: Michael Mosel
> Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] newbie Question
> 
> Hello Michael,
> 
> you're welcome.
> 
> Have a look at this:
> 
> http://wpkg.org/User_contributed_software#wpkgCreateReport
> 
> Using the status folder you can get a good overview about what is installed
> and what should be removed/upgraded/installed at next run on each Client.
> 
> Clicking at the columns of the html report you can select what you like to see
> (usually not the "ok" = installed packages).
> 
> Best regards,
> Falko
> 
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:39:56 +0000, Michael Mosel
> <Michael.Mosel at gcsc.uni-giessen.de> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > my name is Michael Mosel and I just started my position as IT guy at
> > the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at
> > Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen. One my successors had started
> > using WPKG but unfortunately has not documented anything. Since I have
> > never
> used
> > WPKG myself, I am kind of lost right now.
> > Although I googled quite a lot and read large parts of the
> documentation,
> > I have a very basic question to start with:
> > What exactly is the "wpkg-status" folder for?
> > It is filled with tons of xml files holding information about our PCs
> and
> > also install queries which do NOT match the ones I have defined in the
> > package files which kind of puzzles me.
> > Can anyone shed some light on this (I guess pretty basic) question?
> >
> > Yours,
> > Michael Mosel
> > --
> > Michael Mosel | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Website International
> > Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) Gießen Graduate School
> > for the Humanities (GGK) Justus Liebig University Gießen Alter
> > Steinbacher Weg 38
> > 35394 Gießen
> > Germany
> >
> > Tel.: +49.641.993 00 43
> > Tel.: +49.641.993 00 41 (GCSC Office)
> > Michael.Mosel at gcsc.uni-giessen.de
> >
> >
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> 
> Falko Trojahn
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