Re: Distributing Groupwise 8.0.1
Patrick Farrell
> Hi all,
>
> Anyone have any luck setting up a Groupwise 8.0.1 MSI for distro via
> Zen? In the past Novell used to offer a ZIP file of GW clients with a
> win32 directory and an MSI file and with a few tricks you could push it
> out over ZfD. Now its a single EXE installer and when I package it and
> install it, Groupwise is messed up and won't run properly, it's missing
> things. If I install it directly from the downloaded EXE from Novell,
> the client works properly.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated :)
>
> Thanks!
> Joe Jenkins
>
>
I use Zen 7 and GW 7 and use the EXE to deploy. Go into the groupwise
client, and edit the setup.cfg to your liking. Save that into the win32
folder, and then just run the setup.exe and it will do an automated install.
Novell's msi's are brain damaged.
Patrick Farrell
> Thanks for the replies but the problem is that the new Groupwise Client
> 8.0.1 is a standalone installer EXE, there is no zip like in previous
> versions that I can extract the WIN32/ directory or the ADMIN folder for
> GWTuner etc.
>
> If I use the packager AdminStudio 9 to build a Groupwise MSI from this
> standalone EXE, it will install via Zen but Groupwise is completely
> messed up. I was just wondering if anyone had discovered a method of
> working with this in GW 8.0.1 windows client. Thanks :)
>
> Joe
Ah, I didn't realize that, sorry. I may download it later and play with
it just for the heck of it.
Patrick Farrell
> Thanks for the replies but the problem is that the new Groupwise Client
> 8.0.1 is a standalone installer EXE, there is no zip like in previous
> versions that I can extract the WIN32/ directory or the ADMIN folder for
> GWTuner etc.
>
> If I use the packager AdminStudio 9 to build a Groupwise MSI from this
> standalone EXE, it will install via Zen but Groupwise is completely
> messed up. I was just wondering if anyone had discovered a method of
> working with this in GW 8.0.1 windows client. Thanks :)
>
> Joe
>
>
Download and install 7zip and then you can right click on the groupwise
client install exe and extract it to a folder. That will give you the
files like you were used to in GW7 where you have the setup.cfg etc.
Anders Gustafsson
> Where do the MST files go after creating them with GWTUNER????
>
The directory you specify as GW Client dir when running the tuner
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Anders Gustafsson
> What is the file type or name usually?
>
Groupwise.mst
Craig Wilson
groupwise executable.
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> Sorry to HiJack this thread. But is there a way to block the
> installation if the product is already installed on the workstation??
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Anders Gustafsson
> Alright, excellent. Thank you very much for your help. I wasn't finding
> it in a Windows search at first for some reason.
>
Tried sorting the dir with the last modifed file on top? ;)