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Oliver Paals

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to install some setup.exe files capsuled in an installer which has .msi format.
To achieve this, I put the existing .exe setups as post-install prerequisites into my AIP file.

My problem is now, that the post-install setups run asynchonously and I do not know when the last ...

Oliver Paals

Hello,
I read several posts in the forum about the UAC topic, but none of the suggested solutions worked for me.
I'm trying to install under Windows 10 (32 bit and 64 bit).

What I´m trying to do is:
Installing PostgreSQL as a prerequisite with the setup coming from EDB named "postgresql-10.11-1 ...

Oliver Paals

Hello Catalin,

sorry for my late answer, but I took my some time to try out your solution (and I had several other things to do).

Finally it works properly. The key was indeed the prerequisite sequencing, which runs now as expected since I use a separate MSI-Installer for the configuration of the ...

Oliver Paals

Hello Catalin,
thanks for your reply.

I think the scenario "the prerequisite is of feature-based type and the main setup runs silently. In this case, the prerequisite will be installed as a post-install prerequisite (see the case above)" is my scenario. The main installation is running silently and ...

Oliver Paals

Hello,

I would like to replace a configuration file using a custom action of type 'Execute Inline Script Code'
I chose script type 'Visual basic script(*.vbs)'
Install execution stage is the last custom action in 'Add Resources' stage.

The problem is, that the configuration file is not changed ...

Oliver Paals

Hello Catalin,

thank you very much for your quick and helpful answer.

After setting my project to enterprise licence, everything worked fine like you described!

Best regards
Oliver

Oliver Paals

Hello,

I´m trying to create an MSI installer to install an application which needs an additional Postgres database.
I already created a NSIS installer package. Because with NSIS it is only possible to create Setup.exe files, I want to transfer this in an Setup.msi file.

The difficulty is, that the ...

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