Patching administrative installation of Adobe Reader 7.0
Hi everyone!
I've been trying to patch an administrative installation of Adobe Reader 7.0 with the new 7.0.5.msp supplied by Adobe. However when I try to apply the patch with
msiexec /p Ac705RdP_efgj.msp /a "Adobe Reader 7.0.msi" /qb
everything works fine but when I try to install it it says that the product is missing "AcroRdIF.dll" in Data1.cab(I am pretty sure it ain't the only file it couldn't find but it causes the installation to fail). The file itself is contained in the folderstructure that get's created by the patch(uncompressed external files, same dir as .cab and .msi) but obiously not in the .cab file. How can I tell Windows Installer that the file is external and not included in the .cab?
I've been trying to patch an administrative installation of Adobe Reader 7.0 with the new 7.0.5.msp supplied by Adobe. However when I try to apply the patch with
msiexec /p Ac705RdP_efgj.msp /a "Adobe Reader 7.0.msi" /qb
everything works fine but when I try to install it it says that the product is missing "AcroRdIF.dll" in Data1.cab(I am pretty sure it ain't the only file it couldn't find but it causes the installation to fail). The file itself is contained in the folderstructure that get's created by the patch(uncompressed external files, same dir as .cab and .msi) but obiously not in the .cab file. How can I tell Windows Installer that the file is external and not included in the .cab?
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cs_m_si
19 years ago
Hello Sini,
Usually, when you have an administrative installation, in Summary Information Stream the flag "compressed" is not set, and the flag "admin image" is set.
It looks like this is not the case in your admin install anymore. You can overrule the compression type in the Summary Information Stream using a mst and setting the msidbFileAttributesNoncompressed attribute for the files. Just add 8192 to the value in the Attributes column in the file table.
Hope this helps you to solve the problem.
CS
Usually, when you have an administrative installation, in Summary Information Stream the flag "compressed" is not set, and the flag "admin image" is set.
It looks like this is not the case in your admin install anymore. You can overrule the compression type in the Summary Information Stream using a mst and setting the msidbFileAttributesNoncompressed attribute for the files. Just add 8192 to the value in the Attributes column in the file table.
Hope this helps you to solve the problem.
CS
Posted by:
sini
19 years ago
Thanks for you help, I just set the Admin Image flag now everything works fine! Gonna rate your post!
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