4C - Win32 MSI Installs
4C - Win32 MSI Installs
Starting with version 4.8,
all Win32 4C installs are packaged as Miscrosoft Windows Installer Packages.
There are many advantages to this, including:
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You can use Microsoft Group Policy to push updates out to client PCs.
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You can use your choice of other desktop management systems to push
updates out to client PCs.
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You can use 4CUpdate to keep client PCs updated.
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It works really well.
Install and Uninstall are always completely done or not done at all.
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You can use your own installer tools to disasemble/reassemble the 4C
msi packages into your own msi packages.
There are a few differences between the old .exe install and the newer
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The old install always added HOME_4C/bin/win and HOME_4C/bin to the
PATH env variable.
This is no longer done nor is it necessary for any client installs.
For a 4cserver-win32 install,
if you will be running utility commands from the command line,
then you will probably want to add HOME_4C/bin to your path.
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The old .exe install allowed you to change the install location.
The new .msi does not.
The reason for this is that it is necessary for all 4cclient/4cserver
installations to use the same HOME_4C.
If you need to use a different install location than the default,
then with no 4c-win32 packages installed,
create a system environment variable, HOME_4C, and set it to
your preferred install location.
It may be necessary to reboot the computer for the env var to be be seen
by the installer.