[Therion] Therion] Therion 5.4.1 Windows Installer incomplete installs

[Bruce Mutton]

Just following up on what I think is a serious problem with the 5.4.0 and 5.4.1 Windows Installers (as described below).

 

I think the Windows installers should be taken offline until they can cleanly install in all likely situations.  Either that all provide explicit information on the download page as to the limitations and how to fix the problems the installers are likely to cause.

 

Bruce

 

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Cc: Bruce Mutton <bruce at tomo.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [Therion] Therion 5.4.1 Windows Installer incomplete installs

 

Thanks Vladimir

I seem to have got through all that successfully.

I will stick to “all users” Therion installs from now on, as that puts the files in a location where I am used to looking for them.

If the installer ever handles uninstalls, then the .ini files should be preserved.

 

Bruce

 

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Subject: Re: [Therion] Therion 5.4.1 Windows Installer incomplete installs

 

Bruce

This is likely because the "Install for all users" uses a location in Program Files, while "Current user" uses a location in the users AppData folder. The former requires admin privileges, and the later can be used by a limited user.

Older installer versions used Program files by default, and the new files would always overwrite the older ones. But if you had an older version in Program Files, and installed the new one for the current user in his AppData folder, you would end up with two sets of files. And with conflicting file type associations.

You could try uninstalling and manually deleting the Therion install folder. Cleaning the registry entries requires using Registry Editor and deleting a set of keys, if you are comfortable doing that.
The keys are these (after the text "Subkey". HKLM is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKCU is HKEY_CURRENT_USER)
https://github.com/therion/therion-batteries/blob/master/therion.iss#L60-L104

I suppose a better solution would be if I can make the installer uninstall any previous version before installing. This should prevent such an issue.

Vladimir

 

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Bruce Mutton via Therion <therion at speleo.sk <mailto:therion at speleo.sk> > wrote:

Things are getting weirder.

Usually I have just installed one version of Therion over top of whatever version I have installed, but wonder if this might be contributing to issues I have here.

After I have installed 5.4.1 over top of 5.4.0…

If I open a thconfig file, with Help About I get 5.4.1 reported, as below



 

If I then open a .th2 drawing file, I get 5.4.0 reported, as below



 

So with two instances of XTherion open at the same time, each is reporting a different version.

 

Same thing happens installing 5.4.1  88c8a06 over top of 5.4.1.  The drawing editor still reports 5.4.0

 

Perhaps a harmless bug/omission or something odd with the installer?

Initial drawing suggests the drawing editor is behaving like 5.4.1 (triangular survey stations).

 

Bruce

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