[OTR-users] silent / unattended upgrade of 3.2.0 to 3.2.1 / 4.0

[Ian Goldberg]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:43:20PM +0000, Pete Boyd wrote:
> On 16/11/12 23:26, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> > The problem with the (not working) silent uninstall was fixed in August.
> > But if people currently have 3.2.0 (with the old nsis script), the 3.2.0
> > uninstaller isn't silent, so I don't know that there's away to do it,
> > I'm afraid.  But I don't know all the ins and outs of nsis (hence the
> > original problem), so I could be mistaken.
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 3.2.1-2's uninstaller also seems to not be silent.
> However, I've managed to rollout a silent upgrade from 3.2.0-1 to
> 3.2.1-2 by first doing this:
> 
> reg delete
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\pidgin-otr
> 
> so that 3.2.1-2's installer doesn't recognise that a prior version is
> installed and just completes its installation, silently.

Ah, good.  Thanks for the workaround!

   - Ian