Air native application installer - desktopShortcut

I'm using adt to create a native installer for an air 2 app written in flex 3
Doing a standard install all is well. I'm trying however to do a silent install.
If I use: app.exe -silent -desktopShortcut -programMenu
I don't get a desktop shortcut or program menu entry.
Can anybody help?
Using Air 2.5 and Flex sdk 3.5
TIA
Richard

Hi Richard,
Besides the missing shortcuts, is the app actually installed? When installing on Windows (Vista or Win 7) via a command line, can you try starting cmd.exe with "Run as administrator"? This works for me with the parameters you've mentioned.
If I don't run with elevated privlidges, I see a "Program Compatibility Assistant" dialog on Win 7, and the app is not installed.
Thanks,
Chris

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I have a native AIR 2.0 application with a native installer which I silently install as a part of a bigger package.
On Mac, I have a DMG which contains the native installer app and a shell script which copies the native installer app into a temporary folder, and then invokes it passing "-silent" option.
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However if I try re-installing once again, installation succeeds. I can consistently reproduce this problem.
This seems to happen only on Mac OS 10.5.8. On 10.6.0 and above everything seems to work fine.
What can be the reason for such inconsistent behavior?
OS version is Mac OS 10.5.8, CPU: 2.8GHz Intel Core Duo
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Nov 10 20:19:08 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[9579]: Application signature verified
Nov 10 20:19:08 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[9579]: Unpackaging/validation complete
Nov 10 20:19:08 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[9579]: Got an unexpected fatal error while unpackaging: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Unhandled exception ArgumentError: Error #2004" errorID=2004]
Nov 10 20:19:08 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[9579]: Application Installer end with exit code 7
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Chris, thank you for your answer.
The only argument I pass into the installer command line is "-silent", i.e. the command line looks like
"/tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline" -silent
I've noticed that the installer fails only if it's called from a wrapper package. If I invoke the above command line directly from Terminal, the installer consistently succeeds.
Here is the full log for the case when installer fails:
Nov 15 11:21:21 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37088]: Bootstrapper begin (Mac:version (null))
Nov 15 11:21:21 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37088]: Installed runtime located (2.5.0.16600)
Nov 15 11:21:21 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37088]: Launching application installer: "AIR Application Installer" -silent /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline
Nov 15 11:21:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Application Installer begin with version 2.5.0.16600 on Mac OS 10.5.8 x86
Nov 15 11:21:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Commandline is: -silent "/tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline"
Nov 15 11:21:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Installed runtime (2.5.0.16600) located at /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework
Nov 15 11:21:22 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Validating app in folder /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline/Contents/Resources
Nov 15 11:21:23 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Application signature verified
Nov 15 11:21:23 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Unpackaging/validation complete
Nov 15 11:21:23 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Got an unexpected fatal error while unpackaging: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Unhandled exception ArgumentError: Error #2004" errorID=2004]
Nov 15 11:21:23 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37089]: Application Installer end with exit code 7
Nov 15 11:21:23 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37088]: Application installer failure (7)
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Nov 15 11:25:19 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37154]: Bootstrapper begin (Mac:version (null))
Nov 15 11:25:19 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37154]: Installed runtime located (2.5.0.16600)
Nov 15 11:25:19 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37154]: Launching application installer: "AIR Application Installer" -silent /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline
Nov 15 11:25:20 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Application Installer begin with version 2.5.0.16600 on Mac OS 10.5.8 x86
Nov 15 11:25:20 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Commandline is: -silent "/tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline"
Nov 15 11:25:20 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Installed runtime (2.5.0.16600) located at /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework
Nov 15 11:25:20 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Validating app in folder /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline/Contents/Resources
Nov 15 11:25:21 iMac-3 /usr/sbin/ocspd[37158]: starting
Nov 15 11:25:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Application signature verified
Nov 15 11:25:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Unpackaging/validation complete
Nov 15 11:25:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: No app located for appID 'com.pixelnovel.TimelineProjectManager' and pubID ''
Nov 15 11:25:21 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Starting silent app installation to /Applications. Installing app com.pixelnovel.TimelineProjectManager version 0.0.4 using the source file at file:///tmp/PixelNovel/Install%20Timeline.app/Contents/Resources/Timeline
Nov 15 11:25:22 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Launching subprocess with commandline /usr/sbin/chown -hfRP root:wheel /Applications/Timeline.app
Nov 15 11:25:22 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Subprocess chown succeeded
Nov 15 11:25:22 iMac-3 /Library/Frameworks/Adobe AIR.framework/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[37155]: Launching subprocess with commandline /bin/chmod -R ugo+rx /Applications/Timeline.app
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Nov 15 11:25:22 iMac-3 /tmp/PixelNovel/Install Timeline.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Timeline[37154]: Bootstrapper success^M
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9/3/10 11:34:58 AM /Applications/Utilities/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[344] unpackaging/validation is complete
9/3/10 11:34:58 AM /Applications/Utilities/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[344] application is bound to this version of the runtime
9/3/10 11:34:58 AM /Applications/Utilities/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[344] app id com.adobe.AdobeStory
9/3/10 11:34:58 AM /Applications/Utilities/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[344] pub id 4875E02D9FB21EE389F73B8D1702B320485DF8CE.1
9/3/10 11:34:58 AM /Applications/Utilities/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[344] Application located at /Applications
9/3/10 11:34:58 AM /Applications/Utilities/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[344] The certificate of the installed app fails to match either the signature or migration signature of the AIR file
9/3/10 11:35:01 AM /Applications/Utilities/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[344] starting cleanup of temporary files
9/3/10 11:35:02 AM /Applications/Utilities/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[344] application installer exiting
9/3/10 11:35:02 AM /Applications/Utilities/Adobe AIR Application Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe AIR Application Installer[344] application installer exiting
9/3/10 11:35:02 AM com.apple.launchd[223] ([0x0-0x40040].com.adobe.air.ApplicationInstaller[344]) Exited with exit code: 9
Thank you for your help.

Adobe Air application installation using the bundled runtime installer

Hello.
We plan to develop application for different platforms with Adobe Air and testing installing Air applications with bundled runtime installer on different platforms. It's ok with Windows and Mac OS, but we got troubles with "silent" installation on Ubuntu OS 9.10.
I tried to install Adobe Air application with bundled runtime, like in this document in part "Silent installation":
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/redist/WS485a42d56cd19641-70d979a8124ef20a34b-8000.html
using command-line:
"sudo ./MyInstaller -silent simple-air-air-application-1.0-SNAPSHOT.air"
and installation fails. Installation log looks like this:
[setup:2306][INFO] Runtime Installer begin with version 2.6.0.19140 on Linux x86
[setup:2306][INFO] Commandline is: -silent simple-air-air-1.0-SNAPSHOT.air
[setup:2306][INFO] No installed runtime detected
[setup:2306][INFO] Invoking Application Installer for combined install
[setup:2306][INFO] Launching subprocess with commandline /tmp/air.QMrLZl/build/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0/Adobe AIR Application Installer -runtime /tmp/air.QMrLZl/build/opt -silent -withRuntime -url file:///tmp/air.QMrLZl/simple-air-air-1.0-SNAPSHOT.air
[setup:2306][ERR] Subprocess app installer failed (-1)
[setup:2306][ERR] Runtime Installer end with exit code 7
P.S. We tried do the same on Linux Mint 10. Everything's fine, application getting installed well.

Thanks for the reply and solution MrSykes.
I uninstalled adobe AIR and ran a file and registry cleaner to delete any left over files and installs.
Then installed the v.15 Adobe AIR beta as recommended.
The cleaners I used (ccleaner & jv16 power tools) did find some temporary install files and remnants of the Video Alchemy install.
Tried the install again and still no installation window displays.
I'm running Windows 7 on my PC and even changed the installation file compatibility to Windows XP service pack 2 to no avail.
Funny that it installed fine on my notebook with Adobe AIR latest version running Windows 7.
I'm watching task manager as I'm attempting the install and videoalchemy.exe has some cpu usage then drops to zero activity.
Then Adobe AIR application Installer starts up then cycles to zero cpu activity.
I'm stumped on this one :-(
Thanks again for investing the time on my behalf.
Regards
Stephen

Adobe AIR Application Installer.exe

On my win xp pro sp3 machine from all the Adobe stuff
following software installed only:
- acrobat reader
- flash player
- shockwave player
The Secunia scan tool noticed me recently I had old version
of flash player.
It is not right, some days ago just upgraded to 9.0.151.0.
Why I am using the 9.x one see my other thread in the adobe
flash player forum.
In-depth analysis has shown that the old one is really
present on my station:
Adobe AIR Application Installer.exe is present on this
machine and it keeps the old and
vulnerable version of adobe flash player.
What for ???????
I didn't ever install the air application installer on my
own.
It must be one of other three applications I'm using
intentionally.
What of the three application named above has installed AIR ?
And what for ?
Why is nobody upgrading the vulnerable flash version attached
to AIR ?
How can I deinstall it ?

quote:
Originally posted by:
tzeng
You can uninstall AIR by using the uninstall program control
panel. Just like uninstall an application.
AIR doesn't figure on the Add/Remove Programs list.

Adobe Air Application Installer.exe Documentation

Hello All,
i am having severe problems retrieving the documentation for "Adobe Air Application Installer.exe"
We have applied as Publisher for Air Apps here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/runtime_distribution1.html
and filled out the form
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=air_distribution2
After that we were hoping to receive documentation about seamless install of air applications, but we are waiting right now ...
So, time is running out, and i need the documentation of the "Adobe Air App Installer.exe"
So far i have managed to silently install an air app:
'$1 -silent -programMenu -location "$INSTDIR" "$TEMP\AirApp.air"' $0
Where $1 is the "Adobe Air Installer.exe" retrieved from the registry
$INSTDIR is the installation target path
$TEMP is a temporary folder, containing the to install Air Application
the above command works fine for clean and empty systems with no prior versions of the application installed.
what i now miss are the return code meanings, ranging from 0..9 where i only know that 0 means success !
And i would like to have a documentation about the
-update
and the
-uninstall
parameters for seamless installation/deinstallation of a whole air app with data

hi there,
i got the documentation also, dunno why they make it so hard
to get it
thank you very much !
greets from joymoney
ck
I was also facing this problem.
Today I got this
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/air_runtime_redist/air_runtime_redist.pdf
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AIR/1.5/air_runtime_redist/air_runtime_redist.pdf

Sidecar AIR Runtime install with Native .exe installer using ADT

I have packaged my AIR app into a Native .exe installer using ADT. If the user does not have air installed and they are connected to the internet, the AIR runtime is automatically installed.
Is it possible to package the AIR runtime into the exe so that if the user is not online the AIR runtime is installed?
I have experimented with the sidecar install and .air file but ideally I want to only have the one file(.exe). I already have a distribution licence from Adobe.

manicjames wrote:
I have packaged my AIR app into a Native .exe installer using ADT. If the user does not have air installed and they are connected to the internet, the AIR runtime is automatically installed.
Is it possible to package the AIR runtime into the exe so that if the user is not online the AIR runtime is installed?
I have experimented with the sidecar install and .air file but ideally I want to only have the one file(.exe). I already have a distribution licence from Adobe.
This isn't available at this time, but I think it's a great idea. You might want to add a feature request for this over at ideas.adobe.com and bugbase.adobe.com, or review and vote for these current feature requests if they provide for what you're looking for:
Portable AIR Apps
Create portable AIR apps
If you decide to add a new request, please post back with the URL so others can cast their votes and add comments.
Chris

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