Installing additional National Plug-ins
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 3:23 pm
I am wondering whether anyone can advise me on how to install additional National plug-ins without 'uninstalling' all updates.
I need to do this on a number of OLF v5 installations and have attempted it on one local installation. I describe the process:
I ran 'OLF500.exe' and selected the 'Local' and 'Modify' options.
I was then presented with the 'Select Features' dialog.
This sensibly provides an appropriate selection of the following options for each installation item:
All features will be installed on the local hard drive
Will be left unchanged
Will be uninstalled from local drive
The default option is 'Will be left unchanged' as I would expect.
So all I did was to select the desired new National plug-ins for installation and allow the installation to proceed.
Unfortunately what happened was that it re-installed all the original OLF v5 programs thereby effectively uninstalling the updates issued since 'OLF500.exe' was created.
I have started (but cancelled) the same process on one of the other installations and I now see that the right hand panel in the 'Select Features' dialog actually shows that more recent versions will be replaced with older versions.
Now I accept that for a single machine it is not a great problem to re-install the updates at present but I have several installations to manage and it is likely that other National plug-ins will be required in the future.
I am therefore looking for a way of installing the National Plug-ins without affecting the rest of the installation.
Obviously the current behaviour is undesirable and probably unintended and so I would hope that it can be changed in a future update.
In the meantime does anyone know of a work-around to this problem or an alternative method for adding National plug-ins to an existing installation.
I would happily manually copy folders & files from the installation with the additional National Plug-ins installed if I was confident that this was sufficient.
I need to do this on a number of OLF v5 installations and have attempted it on one local installation. I describe the process:
I ran 'OLF500.exe' and selected the 'Local' and 'Modify' options.
I was then presented with the 'Select Features' dialog.
This sensibly provides an appropriate selection of the following options for each installation item:
All features will be installed on the local hard drive
Will be left unchanged
Will be uninstalled from local drive
The default option is 'Will be left unchanged' as I would expect.
So all I did was to select the desired new National plug-ins for installation and allow the installation to proceed.
Unfortunately what happened was that it re-installed all the original OLF v5 programs thereby effectively uninstalling the updates issued since 'OLF500.exe' was created.
I have started (but cancelled) the same process on one of the other installations and I now see that the right hand panel in the 'Select Features' dialog actually shows that more recent versions will be replaced with older versions.
Now I accept that for a single machine it is not a great problem to re-install the updates at present but I have several installations to manage and it is likely that other National plug-ins will be required in the future.
I am therefore looking for a way of installing the National Plug-ins without affecting the rest of the installation.
Obviously the current behaviour is undesirable and probably unintended and so I would hope that it can be changed in a future update.
In the meantime does anyone know of a work-around to this problem or an alternative method for adding National plug-ins to an existing installation.
I would happily manually copy folders & files from the installation with the additional National Plug-ins installed if I was confident that this was sufficient.