Please provide an MSI-based installer or some way to auto-upgrade an older version

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Please provide an MSI-based installer or some way to auto-upgrade an older version #37800

Open Ginolard opened 4 years ago

Ginolard commented 4 years ago

We deploy QGIS using ConfigMgr and, frankly, it's a pain in arse to have to uninstall the old version first before installing the new one. Please could you provide an MSI-based installer or, alternatively, some automated way to update an existing installation instead of it defaulting to a side-by-side installation

gioman commented 4 years ago

@Ginolard have you tried the OSGeo4W installer? it even works from the command line, so you can run updates from a scripts...

Ginolard commented 4 years ago

That's the network based installer right? Unfortunately many of our users are on VERY slow WAN links and it would take them, literally, hours to download a 400MB file over the internet

Regards

Matt

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andreasneumann commented 4 years ago

@Ginolard - no OSGeo4W is more like a packaging system. It is modular and only upgrades components that actually change. You can have a local cache directory if other computers in your LAN want to also install QGIS. You can have the cache on a shared network folder and save a lot of bandwidth.

alexhass commented 4 years ago

I also need an MSI installation package for AD deployment.

alexhass commented 4 years ago

When can we expect an MSI installer?

jef-n commented 4 years ago

When can we expect an MSI installer?

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/38102 contains code to build one (createmsi.pl as replacement for creatensis.pl). But there's no timeline for this.

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alexhass commented 3 years ago

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