Application Packaging Advice...

[skclark]

I am new to SMS and software packaging and have an upgrade to do with an app (Documentum) that is dependant on Adobe Acrobat 4. I need to uninstall the application and uninstall Adobe reboot then install Adobe 6 and the new client and reboot again. I have made an uninstall script for both Adobe and the application as well as .MSI packages for the new apps. My question is does anybody have any advice on how to setup the scripts / packages so that the run correctly. Is there a way to chain all of these scripts and packages and reboots or would I be better off making two different packages, and uninstall and an install package? The real caveat is that the [highlight #FF99FF]end user cannot be without the application[/highlight] so it all has to be done at the same time. I haven’t tested to install or uninstalls to see if they will run without a person logged in. I will do the testing on this shortly, I just wanted to through my call for help out there.

Steps necessary:
DCTM 4.3 and DCTM Runtime 4.2 uninstall script
Adobe Acrobat 4.0 uninstall script

Reboot (SMS Reboots machine?)

Install Adobe Acrobat 6
Install Documentum 5.3 client .MSI

Reboot(SMS Reboots Machine again?)

 

[mib147]

I would make two seperate programs. One for the uninstall and one for the install and chain them together. For the uninstall package, you can either have SMS perform the reboot or make the reboot as part of the script and tell SMS that the program will reboot the machine. That way the chained program will not run until after the reboot. You can find that option in the properties of the program under the "After Running" dropdown list.

 

[skclark]

My only problem is I have to uninstall 2 apps reboot and install 2 apps. Can I chain all these together?
So I would have a package for App1 and a package for app 2 that would need to run back to back after the uninstall script ran and rebooted the machine.