Bugge T. Jensen
26th November 2002 15:17 UTC
Installing e.g Acrobar reader ???
Hi
In my product i use the acrobat reader. In my installer i have made it possible to select to install the arobat reader software.
If selected i run
Section "Adobe"
SectionIn 2
SetOutPath $INSTDIR\util
File ${SOURCE}\bin\commercial\adobe\ar500enu.exe
ExecWait '"$INSTDIR\util\ar500enu.exe"'
SectionEnd
The acrobat reader install starts and when finished my own installation continues..
But what about uninstall.
Should i run the acrobat reader uninstall ?
In suggestions or idea's to do this a better way
Joost Verburg
26th November 2002 15:27 UTC
Unless you know exactly what the Acrobat installer does, this is the best way.
I also don't know wheather making your own installer for Acrobat is legal.
lewellyn
26th November 2002 18:56 UTC
Re: Installing e.g Acrobar reader ???
Originally posted by Bugge T. Jensen
But what about uninstall.
Should i run the acrobat reader uninstall ?
I would not run the Acrobat uninstaller. I mean, in a year's time someone will want to uninstall your software and forget that you're the one who installed Reader. They'll think it awful cheeky for you to uninstall something else.
Alternatively, they may have uninstalled it themselves, already.
Either way, AFAIK, it's not a common practice to uninstall 3rd party products that you install.
If it is, someone let me know quick, before they press the GM I sent over yesterday! :eek:
Mottel
27th November 2002 13:16 UTC
Originally posted by Joost Verburg
I also don't know wheather making your own installer for Acrobat is legal.
He doesn't. He just Exec's Acrobat's installer from his. Why wouldn't that be OK? I'm doing something similar with a 3rd party product, but then, the one I'm installing comes with express permission to redistribute.
Joost Verburg
27th November 2002 15:09 UTC
I know, I was just saying that the other possibility (installing the files using NSIS) might not be legal.
Bugge T. Jensen
27th November 2002 15:13 UTC
Thank you for all your replies.
I will run the install as shown.
To uninstall you have to run add/remove programs and the run the acrobat uninstaller.
I think this is the best way
n0On3
6th December 2002 16:14 UTC
if you want you can add a message window telling that Adobe Acrobat won't be uninstalled and if wanted the user has to uninstall it by himself.
Yathosho
8th December 2002 19:07 UTC
Originally posted by Joost Verburg
I know, I was just saying that the other possibility (installing the files using NSIS) might not be legal.
i agree here with joost, you've got to read adobe's license for acrobat reader, i'm quite certain that the redistribution needs adobe's permission. knowing adobe, they are after such things quite a lot. maybe you should consider a free solution. i think ghostview might be it.