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How do I bootstrap/chain a separate setup.exe in quiet mode from a Wise setup.ini file.

Our application installer needs to run a setup exe from a third party after installing our files. Their setup exe was tested using Visual Studio's deployment tools, but we're using Wise for Windows Installer. They say I need to add a command line call to their setup.exe to the setup.ini file that Wise generates, but they can't tell me th...

How to install a MIDlet on a SonyEricsson phone directly in the Organizer folder

This question refers strictly to Sony Ericsson phones running Java Platform 8 or higher. It is possible to instruct the AMS to install the application in one of the folders Applications or Games. But I want to install the MIDlet in a different folder. The target folders are Organizer, Entertainment or Location services. Is it possible t...

How do I pass msiexec properties to a Wix C# custom action

I have an MSI being created with Wxs 3.0. My MSI references a C# custom action, written using the new C# Custom Action project (http://blogs.msdn.com/jasongin/archive/2008/05/23/custom-action-project-templates.aspx) I want to pass an argument to msiexec that gets routed to my custom action - eg: msiexec /i MyApp.msi ENVIRONMENT=TEST# ...

Failed to install SQL Server 2008 Express/Developer edition on WIndows Vista Ultimate (SP1)

I visited a few forums and tried everything short of wiping out and reinstalling OS while trying to install SQL Server 2008 Express; uninstalled failed installation everytime, cleaned up registry and install folder, disabled UAC, cleaned up WMI repository, rebooted whenever required etc.. Any solution will be greatly appriciated. One o...

Adobe AIR unrestricted access... how do i restrict it?

Hello everyone. Im programming my first application in Adobe AIR but i've noticed that on the install dialog it says my program has unrestricted access to the filesystem and such and i think that might scare potential users. Is there any way i can restrict it so that message doesnt show up in the dialog? Thanks. ...

if i have Windows, Mac, and Linux, what is the easiest way to set up SVN server?

i have Windows Vista, Mac 10.5, Linux Ubuntu... and wonder what is the easiest way to set up an SVN server? some instruction to set it up seems quite complicated. thank you. ...

Installed Visual SVN Server, except I get this message when do SVN Check Out

So I installed Visual SVN Server and Tortoise SVN client. And I created a user on the SVN Server, and now I went to a new folder c:\src, right click and choose "SVN Checkout...", and it always gives me this message Checkout from https://bookroom:8443/svn, revision HEAD, Fully recursive, Externals included Error: OPTIONS of 'https://b...

Python - install script to system

Hello, how can I make setup.py file for my own script? I have to make my script global. (add it to /usr/bin) so I could run it from console just type: scriptName arguments. OS: Linux. EDIT: Now my script is installable, but how can i make it global? So that i could run it from console just name typing. ...

How to install python-dateutil on Windows?

I'm trying to convert some date/times to UTC, which I thought would be dead simple in Python - batteries included, right? Well, it would be simple except that Python (2.6) doesn't include any tzinfo classes. No problem, a quick search turns up python-dateutil which should do exactly what I need. The problem is that I need to install it ...

Compaq Visual Fortran Install on Vista?

Anyone successfully able to install Compaq Visual FORTRAN 6.x on Vista? Tried the other day, but did not have any luck, so just wondering if obsolescence is upon this ol' compiler. Thanks again. ...

How to deploy home-grown applications with rpm?

here is my scenario our team develops on AIX dozens of applications, mostly Perl, shell scripts, batch java, C i would like to simplify deployment/rollback procedures - currently using plain old tarballs with backups I looked into installp vs. rpm for packaging (see my SO question) and decided to go with rpm - better docs, plus IBM inc...

Install older versions of Python for testing on Mac OS X

I have Mac OS X 10.5.7 with Python 2.5. I need to test a package I am working on with Python 2.3 for compatibility. I don't want to downgrade my whole system so is there a way to do an install of Python 2.3 that does not change the system python? ...

What are your favourite Rubygems?

Possible Duplicate: What are the "Must Have" Ruby Gems There are a load of great Rubygems out there that do some amazing things. In fact, I sometimes wonder what I'd do without Rubygems - they certainly give a load of appeal to Ruby and Rails. What are you favorites, and what would you recommend to install? ...

How to cancel installer using Inno Setup?

I am using Inno setup to install a product of mine, in the setup I execute an extern program (Validator.exe) if this program is canceled or aborted I have to cancell my own installer. I save the Validator.exe in {app} path and the execute it. When the installer is running I call Validator.exe file and I get the result of the execution ...

Other ways to disable Silverlight in IE 7?

I know I can disable the Silverlight add-on using the Manage Add-ons dialog, but what other settings would cause Silverlight to not function and display the Install link, if the correct version of Silverlight is actually installed on the computer? Silverlight applications do not display (they show the Install link) in Internet Explorer ...

Specifying a target folder for Eclipse 3.4+ plugins when installing via Software Updates

After searching around I see that eclipse 3.4/3.5 now allow you to use their 'dropin' folder to manually install plugins. This works well in a situation where you have already downloaded the feature and plugin files, however in cases where you use the Software Updates feature to simply point to a URL and download a plugin, you don't app...

Installing Java Manually on windows?

I have seen many products bundeled with jdk, I wonder if there is a way where one can install JDK by simply unzipping contents to a directory. so, there is no icon created in add/remove programs, no registry entries etc. Also in this case: How can we configure java plugin for browsers? And how can we configure settings as seen via cont...

.NET 3.5 and SP1 install question - single installer

Does this install .NET 3.5 and SP1? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ab99342f-5d1a-413d-8319-81da479ab0d7&displaylang=en or is there no single installer yet? ...

What are the odds of GD or ImageMagick already being part of a client's PHP install?

I'm working on a package which includes rescaling of images in PHP. For image rescaling, PHP has the GD and ImageMagick libraries. Are those likely to be part of a given client's PHP install already? Is there a "default" install of PHP, for that matter? By default, are either GD or ImageMagick included? If neither is installed, should ...

Sql 2008 Collation

What Collation should I choose for my Sql 2008 setup? The setup is for an international company and Textual Data is Unicode. Default settings is based on Danish Locale PC. ...