RE: Uninstaller Howto?
RE: Uninstaller Howto?
- Subject: RE: Uninstaller Howto?
- From: "Huyler, Christopher M" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:44:16 -0400
- Thread-topic: Uninstaller Howto?
I'm porting our software from unix so everything is script based. It was very easy to integrate our install scripts into Package Builder. We also have an uninstall script which I can use inside a GUI app like you suggested. I just don't understand why Apple went through all the trouble to provide receipts and packages if they weren't going to provide a universal uninstaller as well.
I will look into these 3rd-party solutions but most likely I'll end up making a gui that resembles the installer.
Thanks for the info.
~ Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Stiphane Sudre [
mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 6:10 PM
To: Huyler, Christopher M
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Uninstaller Howto?
There's an freeware or shareware which is doing this and that can be
found on versiontracker. AFAIK, this software is working with the
receipts.
One solution includes writing a script to uninstall your stuff and wrap
this script inside a GUI application which might be asking for an admin
password and launch the script via the Authorization APIs.
On mardi, ao{t 12, 2003, at 10:27 PM, Huyler, Christopher M wrote:
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I have successfully used "Package Maker" to make an installer for my
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software. However, I haven't seen any standard for making
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uninstallers.
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My software places pieces inside "/Library/Application Support" and
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"/Library/StartupItems" in addition to the standard "/Applications"
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folder. If a user were to move our apps located in "/Applications" to
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the trash, they would only be deleting a small portion of our > software.
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Is there a standard tool for making uninstallers? Where would I put
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the uninstaller during the install so the user finds it? Since the
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user needs root access to do some of our install, they would need root
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access to delete parts of it as well.
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I haven't seen any uninstallers for even Apple software. Other than
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copying the apps located in "/Applications" to the trash, how do you
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uninstall them?
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--
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Christopher Huyler
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Computer Associates
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