[wpkg-users] Installing an .exe from a remote server

[Carl van Eijk]

On 12 February 2013 22:31, Antony Awaida <antony at bizappcenter.com> wrote:

> Hi Carl:
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I am not very familiar with powershell.
> Getting an error when i try to run any of the commands above:
>
> Thanks, Antony
>
> c:\WPKG>powershell -command "(new-object
> System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('htt
> p://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/5MB.zip','C:\5MB.zip')"
> Exception calling "DownloadFile" with "2" argument(s): "An exception
> occurred d
> uring a WebClient request."
> At line:1 char:47
> + (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile <<<< ('
> http://ipv4.download.th
> inkbroadband.com/5MB.zip','C:\5MB.zip')
>     + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [],
> MethodInvocationException
>     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException
>
> Hi Antony,

Please can you reply to the whole list, perhaps other might have some more
insight where I fail.

That's just an example, can you download the file directly via a browser,
or do you have an internal file you can try instead?
Do you have a proxy perhaps causing trouble? Or local permissions.
It could be a syntactical issue if you're running an older powershell
version.

I can;t replicate the issue right now...

C




>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Carl van Eijk <carl.vaneijk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 12 February 2013 21:34, antonya <antony at bizappcenter.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi there:
> >>
> >> We are using WPKG over HTTP. Msi installs work fine: msiexec /i
> >> http://someserverurl.
> >>
> >> What about .exe? Does anyone have experience with installing .exe from a
> >> remote server? what is the "install cmd" to install a .exe from a remote
> >> server?
> >>
> >
> > I've not tried this, but perhaps invoking a powershell command might
> work...
> >
> > powershell -command "(new-object
> > System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('
> http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/5MB.zip','C:\5MB.zip')"
> >
> > something like
> >
> >
> > <install cmd= 'powershell -command "(new-object
> > System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://servername/installpackage.exe
> ','C:\installs\installpackage.exe')"'>
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Antony
> >> --
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> >>
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