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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Saptarshi,

It will certainly be a lot of effort, but nothing compared to the
number of  man hours devoted to DHIS2. If we cannot get this product
installed on more peoples machine's, all of that development effort is
just wasted. So, it is absolutely critical we get a good installer
together, regardless of the effort that is required.


Could you release what you did in NetBeans, and let others, like
myself that are in need of a proper installer, learn from what has
been done previously. Knut has provided valuable information to me
with a previous BitRock installer that he was working on.

I think there are ways to do this, but we will need to try and be a
bit more clever. :)

Let me know what you think.

Regards,
Jason


On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is what the Netbeans-based installer is doing... Infact it is able to
> do that for Linux, Windows, Mac and Solaris from the beginning. It was able
> to detect mysql and jre's installations on the system, tomcat was not
> detectable, which could have been detected from the registry or services
> like MySQL... but it was too much effort and I lost interest in developing
> that further...
> Anyways, what happens when postgres/mysql/tomcat is already installed and
> running?? The bitrock installer screwed a few things and I know ppl just
> uninstall it and all the data entered just goes... Possibly most important
> for an installer is to understand what's installed and not overwrite
> anything, which is why msi is so good for Windows.
>
> ---
> Regards,
> Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA
> Director R & D, HISP India
> Health Information Systems Programme
>
> My Tech Blog:  http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com
> You Live by CHOICE, Not by CHANCE
>
>
> 2010/3/2 Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> OK. A quick update.
>>
>> I managed to get DHIS+Postgres installed on a "clean" system, meaning
>> one without a Postgres user or previous install Postgres instance.
>> This is good, as this may be 90% of the cases we will encounter for a
>> first time install, but it is only part of the problem.
>>
>> On a system with the postgres user already there, I do not know how to
>> get the password  in order to start the windows service, where the
>> password needs to be set when the service is installed.
>>
>>  This is not a big deal if you can start the postgres DB from the
>> command line, but will users know to do this and-or can DHIS start it
>> if it is not started. So, it will install a new instance of postgres,
>> but, the service cannot be started, as the password is not correct.
>> Hmm..maybe there are some bright ideas out there. Perhaps we can set
>> it to the system account?
>>
>> So basically, I can release tomorrow for testing an installer that
>> will install on system without a postgres user. I tried to install
>> Postgres as a different user by creating a different user account, but
>> the installer did not manage to create it. Will need some more work
>> here.
>>
>> Let me know what you think.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jason
>>
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