I am trying to package a program with an InstallShield installer. The installer is a .exe file. Unfortunately, I am writing my own chocolateyUninstall.ps1, as Chocolatey’s auto-uninstaller is failing to detect and uninstall the program by itself. To this end I am trying to use the Uninstall-ChocolateyPackage cmdlet like this:
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
$packageArgs = @{
packageName = $env:ChocolateyPackageName
softwareName = 'TRACE32*'
fileType = 'EXE'
silentArgs = '/s'
validExitCodes = @(0)
}
[array]$key = Get-UninstallRegistryKey -SoftwareName $packageArgs['softwareName']
if ($key.Count -eq 1) {
$key | % {
$packageArgs['file'] = "$($_.UninstallString)".Trim()
Uninstall-ChocolateyPackage @packageArgs
}
}
When calling Uninstall-ChocolateyPackage the packageArgs hashmap contains the following values:
$packageArgs['packageName'] = trace32
SpackageArgs['softwareName'] = TRACE32*
$packageArgs['file'] = "C:Program Files (x86)InstallShield Installation Information{A31FFDB6-5922-4D9E-ADB1-285E5D999D70}setup.exe" -runfromtemp -l0x0409 -removeonly
$packageArgs['fileType'] = EXE
$packageArgs['silentArgs'] = /s
But at this point chocolateyUninstall.ps1 crashes stating that there are “illegal characters in the path” … However, when I copy the contents of $packageArgs['file'] to an elevated command line (CMD or PowerShell), paste it and run it the uninstallation of the program proceeds normally and successfully.
I could not find any report of such an issue with Google. Has anyone ever encountered a problem like this? And, if yes, what was the root cause and how did you solve it? I would like for Chocolatey-UninstallPackage to call the uninstallation command registered in the Windows Registry properly and finish successfully.
I am still using Chocolatey 1.3.1 if that is relevant.
Thanks in advance for your input!
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Just to be clear, nothing is ‘crashing’. An exception is being thrown, which is what is intended to happen.
The problem you have is that your hashtable is wrong. The $packageArgs['file'] doesn’t contain a filename. It contains a filename AND args. You need to split that up into the filename, and the args left need to go into $packageArgs['silentArgs'] like this:
$packageArgs['packageName'] = trace32
SpackageArgs['softwareName'] = TRACE32*
$packageArgs['file'] = "C:Program Files (x86)InstallShield Installation Information{A31FFDB6-5922-4D9E-ADB1-285E5D999D70}setup.exe"
$packageArgs['fileType'] = EXE
$packageArgs['silentArgs'] = "-runfromtemp -l0x0409 -removeonly"
Note that I’m assuming those $packageArgs['silentArgs'] do actually uninstall it silently.
I am still using Chocolatey 1.3.1 if that is relevant.
That is an old and unsupported version of Chocolatey CLI that was released over a year ago.
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