[Installbase-devel] Installbase, existing "setup(.exe), etc...

[Alex F. <set...@op...>]

Hi.

This is actually a follow on from Laurent Duperval's previous post, in which 
he asked about using Installbase to fire up an existing setup executable. 
I'll give a little background....

My sig should give a clue as to my interest. Laurent is also a member of the 
OpenOffice.org CD_ROM project, and both he and I are working toward the same 
end... We want a simple installer for Windows (and I'm looking at Linux as 
well). The windows one should be callable from the autostart.inf file, and 
should offer the Windows user a choice of installation modes (Multi-user or 
single-user OS basically. It would also be desirable to follow the OO.o 
install with installing extras, such as templates and dictionaries.

Herein lies the problem The help files don't. I imagine that the first step 
would be to simply include the existing setup and it's files in one node, 
specifying the existing setup(.exe) etc. But, how do we set up the templates 
and other extras? 

This is complicated because the existing installer must (for a Multi-user 
install) be run first as admin (root), then since this produces another 
setup(.exe) in the install directory, that installer must be run as a normal 
user, otherwise only the admin or root user can run OO.o It is during this 
initial install that the templates etc need to be installed as well, as they 
need to go in a directory of the base install.

So, we need to firstly run the existing installer with the correct flags, then 
we need to install the extras. The next part of the setup is not so bad, as 
the first time a user tries to run O.o, the setup will automatically fire up. 
We can for now ignore that.

I (and I would guess Laurent) would appreciate any suggestions. For example, 
with the extras, how best to configure the installation process? Assistance 
will be gratefully received...

-- 
Alex Fisher
OpenOffice.org Marketing 
Community Contact
Australia/New Zealand

Assistant Lead
CD-ROM Project

http://www.openoffice.org