Panther24
11th January 2005 06:00 UTC

Multiple Programs Installation
Hi All!

I've searched the entire fourm but came up with nothing!!
I'm a new user of NSIS & I'm stuck.

I'm trying to install 3rd party softwares (Tomcat, JDK, Netscape) & an application of my own which uses them.

The question here is i don't know how to extract the 3rd party programs into a temp folder, check the versions and then run their installations and once the 3 of them are over install my program.

And in case of uninstall also give options to the cust to uninstall any of them but complusory my program

Any help!!

Panther24

RobGrant
11th January 2005 11:13 UTC

Mate look here for a way to detect the JDK version; as regards Netscape I'm sure there's a Registry setting you can look for. And as for Tomcat if you find out tell me please cos I have no idea and have looked hard!

Use nsExec::Exec to run the install executables.

Use the InitPluginsDir to get a temporary folder, and just use the File command to place any temporary files into it (refer to it using $PLUGINSDIR).

As for the uninstall, err you'll need to write err actually not sure and a bit busy atm sorry :)

Panther24
17th January 2005 04:17 UTC

Tnx 4 the info RovGrant, but i still haven't figured out how to compress more than 1 exe in a package.

Can some one help!! Tnx.

Panther24

Takhir
17th January 2005 07:36 UTC

You can use something like this

SetOutPath $PLUGINSDIR
File j2re-1_3_1_13-windows-i586.exe
ExecWait j2re-1_3_1_13-windows-i586.exe
Delete j2re-1_3_1_13-windows-i586.exe

For DOS apps use nsExec or http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=181442
BTW single-file package is important for Internet downloads, from CD you can run apps from $EXEDIR.
I saw sample on this forum with empty super-installer runnig a set of installers using ExecWait and temporary hiding itsels till execWait returns. Install options list can solve both install & uninstall problems.