[wpkg-users] Installshield msi exit code 1603

[Paul McGrath]

Hi Pat,
  it doesn't successfully install.  I have seen the results you suggest with other software.  I hadn't tried logging with an interactive install so I will do that and compare logs.
Thanks
Paul
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From: Patrick CAHILL [pjcah0 at eq.edu.au]
Sent: 02 May 2013 01:28
To: Paul McGrath; wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Installshield msi exit code 1603

Paul,
is the log the same on a manual install to a packaged one?
If it is, maybe 1603 is a borked OK code from this program and its actually installed but since WPKG is expecting 0 it immediately starts the uninstall entry.

I only ask as I have had GhostAI packages that returned some weird non-zero success codes, and as soon as it installed, wpkg uninstalled it thinking it failed.

You can get the errorlevel of your manuall install with the following three commands on a clean machine, from the same command prompt, one after another...
echo Starting errorlevel: %errorlevel%
msiexec /i %SOFTWARE%\fluidigm\fluidigm.msi /qn
echo Ending errorlevel: %errorlevel%

-Pat

On 01/05/13, Paul McGrath <J.P.McGrath at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi,
  I am trying to install some software called “Fluidigm Realtime PCR”.  It has a setup.exe and a .msi file.  I can manually run the .msi as “msiexec /i %SOFTWARE%\fluidigm\fluidigm.msi /qn” and it will install successfully but if I try and do the same thing in a package I get a ‘Exit code returned non-successful value (1603) on command ‘msiexec.exe ....’’ in the application event log.
  I’ve tried copying it locally and running it from the C drive in the package but the error still occurs.
  I added a /l to create a log and I’ve attached the log if anyone can make head nor tail of it.
Thanks
Paul


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