Re: Uninstaller Howto?
Re: Uninstaller Howto?
- Subject: Re: Uninstaller Howto?
- From: Thomas Harrington <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:07:33 -0600
On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 02:27 PM, Huyler, Christopher M wrote:
I have successfully used "Package Maker" to make an installer for my
software. However, I haven't seen any standard for making
uninstallers.
My software places pieces inside "/Library/Application Support" and
"/Library/StartupItems" in addition to the standard "/Applications"
folder. If a user were to move our apps located in "/Applications" to
the trash, they would only be deleting a small portion of our > software.
Is there a standard tool for making uninstallers? Where would I put
the uninstaller during the install so the user finds it? Since the
user needs root access to do some of our install, they would need root
access to delete parts of it as well.
Well, some installer applications have the option to create installers
that can also uninstall. FileStorm has an option like this.
InstallerVISE does this too, but I've learned to avoid it.
I ended up doing a custom uninstaller for a situation similar to the
one you describe (FileStorm wasn't available yet at the time, so I
don't know if it would have been a better idea). A small application
that knows where relevant things are located in /Library, and which
removes them if they exist. Along with a few other things it does...
--
Tom Harrington
email@hidden
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