installation

Is Installshield the only way to go for Delphi Installations?

Or is there anything cheaper and better? I am still using the Installsheild express (Borland Limited Edition) as supplied with Delphi 6 :) but I "feel" that I should update it – am I going to gain much or anything buy buying the 2010 version? The old version does work on Vista. I am using Delphi 2009. Any opinions or a definitive ye...

Please help install matplotlib. It won't work! (Python)

Hi, I downloaded the source. Untarred it. "sudo python setup.py install". And below are the errors I get. Can someone help? By the way, Numpy is installed. Thanks a lot. src/_image.cpp:5:17: error: png.h: No such file or directory src/_image.cpp: In member function 'Py::Object Image::write_png(const Py::Tuple&)': src/_image.cpp:646: ...

How to install an application to iPhone without iTunes?

We want to move an application to iPhone, without iTunes. There are two questions: 1) how does the application which moves other applications to iPhone connect to iPhone? 2) if we use iTunes to do that, which method implement connecting to iPhone in iTunes's API. ...

Install device driver silently on Windows XP

Is there a way to programmatically install device driver silently without cat file and without connecting the device on Windows Xp? I'm using DriverPackageInstall function from Windows Driver Kit. And I can install driver only if device is attached. In other case I get an error: ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVINST. But that method works fine with Win...

How do I modify the source code of the MySQL Connector and install it on my PC?

In short, what are the steps that one needs to take in order to modify the source of the connector and install it in Windows? I have the MySQL Connector/.NET Version 6.1.2 installed on my machine, but I'm getting an exception for every DateTime with a value of '0000-00-00'. This exception breaks my application. As I solution, I downlo...

HOWTO and best working installation (MSI) chainer +/ bootstrapper

Hi, Our product has several products that customer can install created as separate installation packages (MSI). We have a requirement to have single package for the installation that will: Show one UI with progress Allow user to choose which features/packages to install Have ability to constrain one feature to another (e.g removing o...

Drupal contributed modules problem

I extracted a contributed module into the sites/all/modules folder, but it is not yet appearing in my admin panel under Administer -> Site building -> Modules. What could be the problem? I tried clearing the cache, it made no difference. ...

How to select a file automatically?

Using VB6 Now I am using a Browse button in my software to select the text file, then it is converted in to mdb (access). I don’t want to select the text file. Once I installed my software in any system, the text file should automatically select in a specified path. Then the text file automatically converts into mdb. Once converted in...

Installing Coldfusion 8 32 bit on a 64 bit machine - any problems?

Hi all We are planning to upgrade our test server and to do so we were planning on buying a 64 bit machine from Dell running Windows 2008 x64 Web edition. However, for now we would like to continue to use 32 bit Coldfusion 8. Is there anything to stop us doing this, or do we have to move to 64 bit Coldfusion 8? Has anyone had any p...

Expression Studio not prompting for serial

I had a msdn registered copy of Expression Studio installed on my machine and recently got a paid licensed copy. I uninstalled it and removed what I could find in the registry that looked related. However every time I try to install Expression to use my new license it doesn't prompt and just installs. It appears that somewhere the old...

Where can I get a Xerces-C compatible with XML::XERCES 2.7.0?

This question is in continuation of this post, I have tried installing Xerces-C but the thing is Xerces-C version is 2.8.0 and 3.0.0 and XML::XERCES latest version is 2.7.0 and so am getting following error message: Update2: Here is the error which am getting, it says there is somekind of version mismatch. Using XERCES_LIB = /home/ad...

Website for installation information?

Is there a website / forum dedicated to windows installation tips/information for programmers, like registry keys modified by different products (Office, SQL server, etc) at installation time? How to uninstall programmatically different packages, etc etc. ...

BDS2006 and Zeos installation

Hi all, I recently installed Zeos 6.6 stable on BDS2006 for both the Delphi and C++ personalities. In order to do so, and since Zeos is written in Delphi, I checked the "Generate all C++ Builder files" when building the packages. The problem I found was that, somehow, not all necessary .DCUs were generated during the building of the...

Making Postgres accessible in Firefox by Psql

How can you make Postgres accessible in Firefox, in installing MediaWiki? I get the error "No database connection" because Firefox cannot have a database connection. I can have database connection in terminal by the user, masi. This suggests me that Firefox is not acting like a masi, so it cannot have the access. Error Warning: pg_ve...

Installing Moodle using XAMPP on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise edition

Hi, I am trying to install Moodle 1.9 using XAMPP on a virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise edition. I can initially access the install.php installer script fine but after I progress past the third page the webpage times out. If I go to http://localhost/, no webpage is downloaded and the browser just times out. I ...

In C# .NET 2.0 or greater, how to get list of all installed applications on Vista PC

Using C# .NET 2.0 or greater and Visual Studio 2008, how would one generate a list of all installed applications on a Windows Vista PC? My motivation is to get a text file of all my installed applications that I can save and keep around so that when I rebuild my machine I have a list of all of my old applications. The second part of th...

How can I use standard WIX to create a streamline installer experience.

Hi guys, I have a question about WIX. Background: Currently, we have created a wizard by WIX UI. User should click next, next and next... But suddenly, we found that there's nothing should be interacted with user, user just need keep clicking next. So.. Here is the Desired Behavior: We automatically switch to next dialog page after all...

Why can't .NET dlls be included with the app using "copy local" - so that installed .NET is not needed

Quite simple question, and I really wanna know the reason (the real reason) behind this. Say you want to distibute a .NET app to computers without .NET installed (not even 1.1). Why can't we just include mscorelib.dll & others with out app? Is it because CLR must be installed in some way, to gain JIT capabilities for intepreting IL? I ...

LaTeX equations in Ubuntu's MediaWiki

My Texvc seems to works, since texvc /home/wiki/tmp /home/wiki/math "y=x+2" gives Cdaa63ef966cc412541190bc8794731de<i>y</i> = <i>x</i> + 2<mi>y</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>2</mn> My LocalSettings.php at /var/www/wiki (source) $IP = "81.111.1.1"; $wgMathPath = "{$wgUploadPath}/math"; $wgMathDirectory = "{$IP}/images/...

Do the new ATL CComModule replacements implement RegOverridePredefKey correctly?

I have a project that stated in an old version of Visual C++, so it uses CComModule. The only problem is that I set up RegOverridePredefKey to install in HKCU if HKCR fails. This works fine in XP, but on Vista, the implementation is broken! I found some posts on the internet corroborating that it is indeed broken. I was wondering: 1) ...