my question is pretty simple so here it is:
Using InstallShield, whatever version, is there anyway to specify a Service Pack as a System Hardware Requirements?
I can specify Windows 7, so that my installation will not even be launched if the OS is prior to Win7 but I also want to specify a minimal service pack, which seems to be simply impossible to do.
Another... hum inconsistency, is that I can set a certain OS AND service pack requirements for a specific prerequisite but all it does is remove the prerequisite from the installation if its requirements are not met but it won't cancel the installation itself, even if the prerequisite is mandatory... sigh /rant :P
Anyways, if anyone has an idea how to do that with InstallShield, that would be great.
Thanks in advance!
Alex
pls go through this below mentioned link.... for different Install condition
http://blogs.flexerasoftware.com/installtalk/2010/11/using-msi-launch-conditions-to-prevent-installation-on-unsupported-windows-platforms.html
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I use and love cygwin, but every few weeks it notifies me that a new installer is available and I should use it to get the latest bugfixes. But I find this quite annoying because of my company policy, where downloading, installing and running a new .EXE file is a bit of a process due to paranoid company monitoring software.
I am just curious why the installer updates so frequently and what will happen if I don't update it. It is after all just an installer - all it does is it downloads updated packages and installs them (or rather, that is what I believe all it is doing). I do not understand why such a simple tool should have so many fixes/updates over time. If I don't update the installer, will I miss out on updates to the cygwin packages themselves?
I have been using the same cygwin version since years now and not faced any issues.If the application is working as expected then you dont need an update unless you face some trouble or you are migrating to a new windows Os which might have some compatibility issues.
Note : There is no guarantee that there will not be any problems with applying updates and also the cygwin faq section says that after updates issues should be reported to the project or product supplier for remedial action.
https://cygwin.com/faq/
The changes in Setup are usually to improve the functionality or correct some
issue.
See relative Announce:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2021-April/010021.html
Most of the time, previous version continues to work fine.
Broke of compatibility is very rare.
Can someone tell me if Origen is supported on the Windows platform?
If it is, is there a guide for the installation process?
If not, are there any plans to support it in the future.
Thanks,
Priyavadan
Yes Origen is supported on Windows, but at present most of the user base is on Linux.
There is a Windows installation guide here, though it has a tendency to go out of date due to it being used less often than its Linux counterpart.
Please raise a ticket on Github if you end up here because of it not working: https://github.com/Origen-SDK/origen/issues
I have multilingual installation setup program, where user can select 5 different language. Consider I have installed application in German language. whenever I am uninstall the application or update the previous setup it is launching in German. I would like to know how setup will detect the older installation product language.
In my case I have created a upgrade only installation where it will detect the previous version of the installation and do the major upgrade. In the major upgrade I don't want to display the language dialog. The update should happen in the earlier installed lanugage.
Does installscript has any API to detect the earlier installed applications product language.?
I belive there should be some way to do like that as uninstallation does, Can any body give me some suggestion.
Thanks in advance.
For a pure InstallScript installation, this is tracked in the uninstall key's command line. Look for the /L parameter.
For Windows Installer-based installations, this is remembered automatically by Windows Installer tracking which transforms are applied at initial installation. This includes the language transform.
How to setup/configure the environment "CDC-1.0/Foundation-1.0,J2SE-1.3" of an OS (for example windows XP, linux)?
Because I want to run the embedded AWT application which requires this environment.
one possibility is to install an IDE which contains all that. the one which seems the most appropriate to me is NetBeans. go and see on their site, there are some tutorials on installation, setup and project creation
note that there may be other IDEs to perform the same task, i am just not aware of them.
I have about a few problems with a new install of the Qt SDK. I probably only need advice, but specific answers are also welcome. Before I begin a mini-story, I am running RHEL5 on academic license under VirtualBox on OSX 10.6. Using Qt version 4.5.3. This is my situation...
1.) I couldn't compile because g++ wasn't found. I fixed this by creating a link: g++ -> g++34. This allowed me to compile but it generated more errors at link-time. I had installed the framework in my home directory unintentionally so I uninstalled/reinstalled the entire SDK to /usr/local/qt.
2.) At this point I could compile but the linker complained about a missing freetype package. I had that already installed but wasn't sure why it couldn't be found. So I installed a few packages that I thought might be missing like libqt4-devel and libqt4-devel-debug. I also installed a few other general programming packages for later use.
3.) Somehwere in this process I can no longer run qmake. I ran it before and I have it installed at /usr/local/qt/qt/bin/qmake. I could create a link to it (though I shouldn't have to OR I could ensure that the location was in the PATH var). However, at this point Qt Creator says there's no Qt installation found. I re-pointed it to the installation location (using Tools/Options) but it still won't run qmake or anything else for that matter...
I only need this linux install to compile and test my Qt projects which I am developing in OSX. So my question is, should I just wipe this RHEL install and start over? And if so, should I use something else like Ubuntu? I am having plenty of hassles that I don't want to deal with as is. Note, this project will require good OpenGL support.
Is there a particular reason that you don't simply use the Qt package that's part of RHEL?
If for some reason you need to build your own, you can get all of the build dependancies with:
$ yum install yum-utils
$ yum-builddep <whatever the qt package's name is>
#scotchi is right, and you should try to use the Qt package that comes with your system unless you need a very different version. I don't know what version of Qt comes with RHEL but if its not up-to-date enough for you (and it might not be, see below) then you could consider changing OS versions. I would only do this after trying his suggestion though, because you may be able to get things working without the hassle of a full OS install.
Now, as to why you might want to switch: RHEL is, as its name ("Enterprise Linux") indicates aimed at companies who want to run servers, or large deployments of desktops. It emphasizes stability and reliability over being cutting edge. Fairly often the version of the compiler and development libraries lag a little behind the curve. This is what their clients want: a stable platform they can develop against and run programs on for a period of time, not constantly needing to keep up with the latest changes, and thoroughly tested. But for people doing development at home it may not be necessary to stay that conservative. I don't know if this is for work, school or personal programming, but it sounds to me like you should move to one of the more desktop-oriented distros. Ubuntu is great, as is Fedora. If you prefer a RHEL-like environment, then choose Fedora.