Win2K SP4 uninstall problems with Inkscape-0.47pre2-1.exe
I just tried uninstalling to check whether the uninstaller would delete my theme customizations in etc, lib, and share when it uninstalled it's core files, and ran into the following problems.
FYI, the original installation was into E:\Inkscape
1) Installer appeared to be deleting files and at the end of the process pop'd a dialog asking if I wanted to delete "E". Obviously as E is one of my partitioned "drives" I said no. Don't really know what the uninstaller would have done, but this appears serious.
2) Likely due to my "no" answer in (1), it doesn't appear any files were deleted by the installer.
Note that the original install did not go smoothly as I first tried to have the installer install to a non-empty directory containing my theme customizations. Once the installer squawked that it couldn't install to a non-empty dir, I manually deleted my customizations (while the installer was still running) and then was able to get the installer to continue by clicking the Cancel button (I think) many times until it continued.
It may be that the original installation snags are to blame for.
However, this is an example of why I initially avoid installers like the plague until they prove that they will not degrade my system.
Please, please, please continue to provide the 7z's at the same time as the installers :)
I'll check out the next release of the installer when it comes out to see how it handles installing to an existing dir with theme customizations.
Jon
I have made changes to it which should have fixed all these problems (the uninstallation one will be because of the installation issue I think).
I've been wondering whether I should package up another release for it. Are we having a 0.47pre3 release, guys? If so, I'll wait for that, if not, I may merge the changes since 0.47pre2 back into that and rebuild the installer.
Thanks for your testing, Jon :-)
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Jon <jon.forums@...400...> wrote:
I just tried uninstalling to check whether the uninstaller would delete my theme customizations in etc, lib, and share when it uninstalled it's core files, and ran into the following problems.
FYI, the original installation was into E:\Inkscape
- Installer appeared to be deleting files and at the end of the process
pop'd a dialog asking if I wanted to delete "E". Obviously as E is one of my partitioned "drives" I said no. Don't really know what the uninstaller would have done, but this appears serious.
- Likely due to my "no" answer in (1), it doesn't appear any files were
deleted by the installer.
Note that the original install did not go smoothly as I first tried to have the installer install to a non-empty directory containing my theme customizations. Once the installer squawked that it couldn't install to a non-empty dir, I manually deleted my customizations (while the installer was still running) and then was able to get the installer to continue by clicking the Cancel button (I think) many times until it continued.
It may be that the original installation snags are to blame for.
However, this is an example of why I initially avoid installers like the plague until they prove that they will not degrade my system.
Please, please, please continue to provide the 7z's at the same time as the installers :)
I'll check out the next release of the installer when it comes out to see how it handles installing to an existing dir with theme customizations.
Jon
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On Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 4:27:50 PM, Jon wrote:
J> I just tried uninstalling to check whether the uninstaller would J> delete my theme customizations in etc, lib, and share...
J> 2) Likely due to my "no" answer in (1), it doesn't appear any J> files were deleted by the installer.
I just did the following:
- manually blew off everything in C:\Program Files\Inkscape - installed from Inkscape-0.47pre2-1.exe - ran Inkscape, changed a couple of preferences - closed it down - ran Add/Remove Programs and uninstalled Inkscape
I was prompted to save my customisations, this option was checked by default and I left it checked
- the uninstalled completed and Inkscape is no longer listed as an installed program
So far so good, except that C:\Program files\Inkscape is still full of stuff. As far as I can see, nothing was deleted. inkscape.exe is still there, bunch of DLLs, etc, lib, python and share directories.
On Friday, September 11, 2009, 2:58:05 PM, I wrote:
CL> I just did the following:
On Windows XP (en-us) SP2, since I forgot to mention that, sorry.
I think this is due to the admin problem. (I think that the uninstaller isn't running as admin.) It should be fixed in the next build I do.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Chris Lilley <chris@...157...> wrote:
On Friday, September 11, 2009, 2:58:05 PM, I wrote:
CL> I just did the following:
On Windows XP (en-us) SP2, since I forgot to mention that, sorry.
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