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

[Antony Awaida]

Hi everyone:

Any insights into why I may be getting this error?

Thanks,
Antony

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Carl van Eijk
<carl.vaneijk+wpkg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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>> >>
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