{"id":1205,"date":"2017-12-04T05:12:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T05:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2020-01-09T09:30:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T09:30:30","slug":"troubleshooting-installers-in-installanywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/troubleshooting-installers-in-installanywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubleshooting Installers in InstallAnywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>deployexpert created the topic: Troubleshooting Installers in InstallAnywhere<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are several methods available to debug InstallAnywhere installers. Deciding<br \/>\nupon which method to use depends in part on the installer development cycle\u2014during<br \/>\ninstaller development or later if an end-user has a problem with the installer.<br \/>\nMost InstallAnywhere installers utilize Macrovision\u2019s LaunchAnywhere technology.<br \/>\nAlong with many convenient features for end-users (double clickable launchers,<br \/>\nnative-like user experience) LaunchAnywhere launchers provide a host of built in<br \/>\ndebugging features.<\/p>\n<p>During Installer Development<br \/>\nInstallAnywhere can output debug information to a file.<br \/>\nIn the Installer Debug Output Section of Project | Config are fields which define what<br \/>\nfile locations to send stdout and stderr. The options for the text fields are to leave<br \/>\nblank which discards the information, enter \u201cconsole\u201d which sends the information to<br \/>\na live console, or to type the file paths. Both entries should point to the same file.<br \/>\nThese paths should be absolute, and can be managed using Java paths, rather than the<br \/>\nsystem specific paths. This feature allows developers use one entry for multiple<br \/>\nplatforms.<br \/>\nFor example:<br \/>\nSend stderr to: \/tmp\/outputfile.text.<br \/>\nSend stdout to: \/tmp\/outputfile.text<br \/>\nThese settings will direct the output to \/tmp\/outputfile.txt on a Unix or derivative<br \/>\nsystem, and to C:\\tmp\\outputfile.txt on a Windows system. The file itself (in this<br \/>\nexample outputfile.text) will contain most, if not all information needed to debug<br \/>\nInstallAnywhere installations.<br \/>\nBecause these files will not be uninstalled, we recommend that this feature be<br \/>\ndeactivated prior to the final build of the product installer. However, some developers<br \/>\nhave chosen to leave the output intact to make debugging any issue that arise post<br \/>\ndevelopment easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>deployexpert created the topic: Troubleshooting Installers in InstallAnywhere There are several methods available to debug InstallAnywhere installers. Deciding upon which method to use depends in part on the installer development&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}