Questions tagged [installer]
An installer is a specialized program that performs the tasks necessary to install another application.
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Launching app with advertised shortcut triggers installer repair
An application I try to launch via its advertised shortcut always wants the installer MSI package (installer's repair function is triggered). I understand that this is due to some keyfiles missing. Is ...
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Install Builder - Linux - Run at startup
I created an installer using Install Builder on Debian.
This installer installs an application. How to make this application run at computer boot up on Debian Linux from Install Builder installer?
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Install Builder - Linux - Prevent confirmation message in Terminal
I created an installer using Install Builder.
When installing from Terminal on Debian it shows this message,
Welcome to the Application Setup Wizard.
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How to list currently installed MS Office apps programmatically?
I want to understand the contents of my Office edition, i.e. which apps (Word, Excel, Outlook) are installed on my machine. For example, I can see this info when I do repair of my Office package, ...
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Does an Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificate protect the downloader if the installer is compromised
A friend of mine has some software available on his website and the installer for it has been infected with some malware. The infection happened on the hosted server without my friend knowing. ...
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How to pick Office 2016 license in Click-To-Run installer?
The context: I have two active licenses purchased in my MS account, Office365 subscription and Office Home and Student 2016.
Both allow installation and when I press the install button they start ...
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File Explorer CD/DVD default action: disable "install or run program from your media"
When inserting a CD/DVD medium, I already disabled autoplay from within Settings / Devices / Autoplay first and, then, from within Control Panel / Autoplay which is more complete. However, even with ...
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Automatically install *.pkg via shell
I want to automate the installation process of an app that is provided in form of a pkg file
From other posts I gathered that the command
sudo installer -store -pkg "/path/to/file.pkg" -...
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How on MacOS from bash script (or installer) inform system restart is requried (which can be postoned by a user)
I have some post installation script which on some version of MacOS system does some system tweaks. This changes will take effect when system is restarted.
I do not want to restart machine immediately....
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Installing from deb files vs run file
If an app publishers offers both a deb file/ repo based installation, as well as a run file, which is preferable, and why?
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Impossible to keep user install in Visual Studio Code
I'm using Windows 11 and I've found that for VS Code, user installer, incredibly, doesn't have the option to check for updates, and it does not do that automatically either (although I've got this ...
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Windows 11 Installer not showing my USB [closed]
Currently, I am attempting to run Windows 11 Home/Pro from a USB, on an intel based MacBook Air 2017.
I booted the installation media, and I can bypass all the windows 11 TPM, SecureBoot and RAM ...
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how to create a mac operating system pendrive on a chromebook
I'm trying to create a Macosx (pendrive, installer, downloadable file), for a wiped Macbook Air on a Chromebook. Using the base Chromebook operating system, it's rather foreign to me and I do not ...
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How to identify if an executable was installed by MS Click-to-Run installer?
How to identify, if an executable was installed by MS Click-to-Run installer?
For a classic MSI installer I can just open the MSI file with tools like Orca and then I can easily see if a given file ...
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How packages that does not contain executables actually works?
How do installers that contains only files like (.rsrc_1, [0], .rdata etc.) actually work?
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For comparison:
I can imagine how installers that contains files like .msi, .cab work - they ...
