JordanD83
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Chained Prerequisites waiting until one finished before starting next

Fri Nov 04, 2022 7:43 pm

I have multiple chained prerequisites each installing a .msi, where each of those .msi's being installed needs to download to finish the install. How can I delay the installation of a proceeding .msi install run until the one before has been completed? I did read about creating Custom Behavior: Search, but I don't think I did it right. I created File Searches for a specific .exe of one of the prior installed .msi's, and for the Condition setting of the Install of the Chained install, I used "NOT xxxx " for example. but this did not work.

Catalin
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Re: Chained Prerequisites waiting until one finished before starting next

Mon Nov 07, 2022 12:58 pm

Hello Jordan,

Please note that this should be the default behavior here.

By default, the OS does not allow the installation of more than 1 MSI at a time, so each MSI package will be launched only after the previous is installed - to avoid this limitation.

Are you noticing a different behavior? Or perhaps can you give me some more details about your scenario (maybe I did not quite understand your request here)?

Best regards,
Catalin
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