[wpkg-users] TIP: how to find out version and uninstall string: LibreOffice6

[Dave Evans]

there is this guy Stefan who doesn't like it if we top post so reply is 
at the end
On 02/03/2020 17:26, Kris Lou wrote:
> FWIW, I've moved towards using WMIC for many of these uninstalls.  It 
> has added overhead, but that generally doesn't matter as much as I 
> don't do a lot of forced uninstalls.
>
>  <remove cmd='%COMSPEC% /C wmic /node:localhost product where 
> name="LibreOffice %PKG_EXE_VERSION%" call uninstall /nointeractive' />
>
> Kris Lou
> klou at themusiclink.net <mailto:klou at themusiclink.net>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 12:58 AM Marco Gaiarin <gaio at sv.lnf.it 
> <mailto:gaio at sv.lnf.it>> wrote:
>
>     Mandi! Jáder Marasca
>       In chel di` si favelave...
>
>     > So in Linux, a "file X.MSI"  would tell the exact version of MSI
>     file and his
>     > uninstall string.
>
>     WOW! You save my time! Thanks! ;-)
>
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I didn't like the overhead of WMIC, plus it only handles MSI so I wrote 
something to handle it:
https://github.com/stringydave/uninstallbyname

Dave
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