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stefankueng / grepWin

A powerful and fast search tool using regular expressions
https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin.html
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grepWin-2.0.11-x64.msi installer depends on grepWin-2.0.10-x64.msi #342

Closed cowwoc closed 2 years ago

cowwoc commented 2 years ago

The new installer is broken. If you try upgrading from the previous version, you will get the following error:

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stefankueng commented 2 years ago

I assume you have the msi on a network share and you try to install from there? That won't work. Copy the msi e.g. to your desktop and install from there.

cowwoc commented 2 years ago

@stefankueng I'm not running on a network share. This is the error I get when running from my desktop folder. Did you notice the incorrect dependency in the error message?

The 2.0.11-x64 binary depends on version 2.0.10-x64 (the previous version). That by itself sounds like a bug...

stefankueng commented 2 years ago

no, that's not a bug. That's how all msi's work when upgrading to a newer version: the old msi is used to uninstall the previous version. Windows keeps the 'old' msi file exactly for that. I assume you've used one of those "optimizing" tools that promise to free "unused" files. Don't do that!

cowwoc commented 2 years ago

@stefankueng I didn't use any optimizing tools. I can see now that I cannot uninstall the old version unless I re-download its installer. Meaning, I get the above error message if I do.

Shouldn't users be able to uninstall the software without needing to keep the original installer around? I don't remember running into this problem in past versions of this software, or other software for that matter.

stefankueng commented 2 years ago

Yes, users should be able to uninstall the SW without keeping the old installer. As I said: Windows does this automatically. Even if you don't use such tools, something deleted that msi file Windows keeps around.