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reidmweber
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Sep 28, 2012 5:12 PM UTC

Is there a way to apply a migration certificate to a native installer on Windows? I can't build to a .air package because my program uses NativeProcess and requires that only extendedDesktop profile be supported. If I just sign the native installer with my new certificate, I get an error when I try to install over the old version saying the installer has been mis-configured. It installs fine after an uninstall of the old version so I think the error is because the certificate has changed.

I've also tried preparing an .airi intermediate file but I can't sign that with the adt -sign command for the same reason (NativeProcess).

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active_customer16B8
Adobe Employee
Oct 3, 2012 4:31 AM UTC

You need to add the desktop profile to the supportedProfiles tag. Once you do that, you can package the AIR file. Then migrate the AIR file. and use adt -package -target native out yourApp.air

to convert the AIR file into the native installer.

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mariahbailey
Participant
Oct 5, 2012 6:20 PM UTC

I'm having the same issue as reidmweber. We had to renew our code signing cert and are unable to install over the existing application with the newly-created native installer.

I tried the recommendation of adding the desktop profile to the supportedProfiles tag and then migrating the .air app to .exe, but I still get the same error ("This application cannot be installed because this installer has been mis-configured.").

I should mention that I had to include both the desktop profile and the extendedDesktop profile because the migrate command (adt -package -target....) threw an error without the extendedDesktop profile. The error is "Descriptor is invalid for native install....the app must support the profile extendedDesktop".

I keep thinking there must be a way to create the native installer such that end-users won't have to first uninstall and then re-install. If there are any additional ideas, please let us know. Thanks!

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