Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 123427
RFE: Provide the windows installer in MSI format for easy bulk deployment
Last modified: 2017-02-12 18:04:48 UTC
The current windows installer is in EXE format which does not aparently allow bulk installation (quick installation on multiple computers), the MSI format supposedly allows that and thus gives LibreOffice an advantage. I would like to request a creation of MSI installer (in past OpenOffice.org used it, so it shouldn't be that hard to make it "alive" again, right?) because we would like to do a bulk upgrade from old (3.3) LibreOffice to Apache OO 4 in our institution and an MSI installer would massively improve the effectivness of the process. Thank you very much.
User is asking for an enhancement
There is a .msi inside the .exe, so if you do the installation part of setup, you can find it and then use it. Try that. A bigger modification would be to simply ship a .msi for Windows. This might be a good way to ship signed MS install files too. (Having both for download is costly and may ask too much of our users.) The legacy approach to unpacking onto the desktop and then running the real install is pretty awful. There may also still need to be modifications so that uninstall does not require the .msi to be kept somewhere on the machine [;<).
(In reply to orcmid from comment #2) > There is a .msi inside the .exe, so if you do the installation part of > setup, you can find it and then use it. I should have said, if you do the unpacking part of setup, you can see the .msi in the folder that setup then runs in.