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November 28, 2012
Question

Native Installer does not update the existing application

  • November 28, 2012
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We packaged a native installer on windows and implemented a custom update mechanism (using http://code.google.com/p/nativeapplicationupdater/).

The problem is, when a new updated application installer runs, it does not seem to update an existing installed application.

It just runs the existing app without actually replacing it with the new copy.

If I first manually uninstall the exisintg app and launch the new installer, I do see that the installed application

is newer than the previous one (confirming that the new installer does include a new application version).

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Eilon

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4 replies

November 28, 2012

Another clarification:

Running a newer native exe installer file does not replace the existing installed app, but rather just lanches the existing app.

Thanks.

chris.campbell
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November 30, 2012
November 30, 2012

Thanks for your response.

I found the problem. We had:

<customUpdateUI>true</customUpdateUI>

tag in the application descriptor and that caused the native installer to skip the prompt asking

the user if he want to replace the existing app. Removing this tag fixes the issue.

Not sure how to hook a custom update UI for that stage, but its not a must for me at this point.