Please locate your original setup sources to continue operat

[colin_priest]

I have built an uncompressed installation. There are no web media blocks. All content is offline. When I try to uninstall the software I get the message "Please locate your original setup sources to continue operation". Why do I get that message? How do I stop this happening?

[Bar_BQ]

Hi,


I guess you use version 8 or earlier, right? Then the only way is to make a web-build because only this one caches installation files during installation. I had the same problem and web-build helped. The only disadvantage is a bit longer installation time because of decompressing files. Uncompressed version has one more disadvantage - you cannot do multiinstance installation due the same caching problem. So, just make web build and your problem will dissapear.

[colin_priest]

Thanks Bar-BQ. That suggestion fixed my problem. It is unintuitive that a web install option is what I need in order to do a CD installation, but it works.

I am using version 7 r2. Are you saying that version 9 has extra options that fix this?

[MichaelNesmith]

v9 does let you cache any build type you like.

[Bar_BQ]

I agree, it's very unintuitive, in the beginning I thought that this is script level error and I lost a lot of time searching for it. Haven't checked how it works with version 9, but I hope problem is finally solved...

[Matt68]

"Then the only way is to make a web-build because only this one caches installation files during installation."


I've always used web-build but there are instances when the files are not cached. A small percentage of our uses have this problem and only until recently did it happen to me. The cache folders are created but are empty so during a patch attemp the 'Browse for Folder' dialog comes up. Is this a known issue?


Matt

[MichaelNesmith]

Unless you are deleting them yourself, going back to a system restore point, or some other external factor outside of InstallAware, it won't delete your cache folders.

And again, in InstallAware 9, you can cache any build type's sources.

http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4588

[Matt68]

I'd like to be able to do updates without patching. In other words, I would just like files to be updated(overwritten) and/or added to a current installation without uninstalling or patching. Can this be done with InstallAware 9? Thanks.

[NickDay]

I've had a similar problem. In case it helps anyone, the solution for me was to recognise that the "Always cache setup sources" checkbox has _three_ states. I needed it checked, not just filled in. This has caught me out more than once . InstallAware12.

[MorganeJ]

I've had a similar problem. In case it helps anyone, the solution for me was to recognise that the "Always cache setup sources" checkbox has _three_ states. I needed it checked, not just filled in. This has caught me out more than once . InstallAware12.

Thanks a lot for sharing Nick ! You solved my problem 4 years after

[FrancescoT]

Dear Morgane,

I am really happy that you finally solved your problem ...
...but the same argument and solution as well, has been widely discussed with (many) other forum threads.

Regards

[GFXDude2010]

NickDay's solution has also resolved my issue today nearly 7 years after the original question was asked. I have to wonder what the point of the intermediate checkboxes around IA are?

I've had a similar problem. In case it helps anyone, the solution for me was to recognise that the "Always cache setup sources" checkbox has _three_ states. I needed it checked, not just filled in. This has caught me out more than once . InstallAware12.

For anyone having issues locating this checkbox, I found it under the Design Tab > Deployment (Left menu) > Build Settings > Build Type > Always Cache Setup Sources (allows easy patching without requiring access to original setup sources)

[FrancescoT]

As I said previously... in reality there are lot of forum topics about the same identical argument.

Reagrds