Question regarding OMAHA installers

Sebastian Onofrei

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Jan 15, 2022, 4:09:16 PM1/15/22

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Hello guys,

Sorry to disturb you again, but it seems I still come with questions from time to time.

I managed to create a OMAHA web-server myself, which responds to PING and UPDATE-CHECK requests.

I have a question though about the small installer, and how does it work.

My build have created a few installers:

BrowserSetup - the meta-installer which is about 1.24MB --- this is the one I have questions about
BrowserStandaloneSetup - about 100MB - which installs OK
BrowserStandaloneSilentSetup- didn't tested it but i guess should work
BrowserStandaloneUntaggedSetup
and BrowserUntaggedSetup (these last 2, dunno what are they for)

So, my questions are about the small meta-installer. As to my understanding, it will reach the omaha webserver, will ask for latest version, and then try to download and install.

Well, i configured the web-server to respond with a link to the BrowserStandaloneSetup (which if run manually, installs OK)

Now, the small meta-installer checks for it, downloads it, verifies the hash/etc and starts installing it. But the install process fails. So I assume that the installer I fed it with is wrong.

Which installer is it supposed to be fed?

Sebastian Onofrei

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Jan 15, 2022, 4:29:21 PM1/15/22

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Sorry, if only I would have been a little more patient.

I've successfully implemented the small meta-installer as-well. It was needing the standalone installer of the product also fed with "--do-not-launch-chrome" argument so it doesn't try to open the browser 2 times.

~~~ me so happy :)

Sorin Jianu

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Jan 17, 2022, 4:06:11 AM1/17/22

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Great news!

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