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Chained installation

Mon May 09, 2022 7:41 am

Consider a case where I have installshield software which installs a .msi through chained installation. Let's say it's Setup-1.
Now I have another setup Setup-2 which installs the same .msi through chained installation.

Now if I uninstall either of the setup (Setup-1 or Setup-2), it is uninstalling the chained msi. So the other setup cannot use it which leads to a problem. Only when both are uninstalled, it should be uninstalled. It should be something like shared components.

How to avoid this scenario?

Catalin
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Re: Chained installation

Tue May 10, 2022 1:35 pm

Hello and welcome to our forums,

If the InstallShield setup was created in such a way that it removes the chained package on uninstall, then I am not really sure what you can do to avoid it, as I am not really experienced with InstallShield.

If the chained package is assigned to a feature, perhaps you can use the REMOVE property and try to exclude that feature, although I am not sure this will work.

Please let me know if there is anyhting else I could help you with.

Best regards,
Catalin
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