A shortcut would be to use Orca or similar tool and modify the MSI to disable the CA (assuming it's a CA that's failing) and re-cache it as Phil suggests.
-----Original Message----- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 11:49 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Force Uninstallation of a MSI The safe way is to do a build with the same ProductCode that fixes the issue (which may be as simple as removing the call to a failing uninstall custom action) and installing it: msiexec /I <your new msi> REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus Or a patch that provides the same fix. Other solutions (such as fiddling with the cached MSI file in \installer or using the obsolete cleanup utility) tend to be very messy. MS supplies this: http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall Phil Wilson On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Suryadeep Biswal <surya6...@hotmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > > > On one of our machines, an uninstallation step fails resulting in > rollback of the entire process. I am looking for a way to force > uninstall a MSI (it would be okay if some of the MSI bits remain after > the uninstallation). > > > > Is anyone aware of a way (or a tool) to do such force uninstallation? > > > > Regards, > > Surya > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most > from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
