View source for WPKG with Wine

Although WPKG was written to ease Windows administration, it can also run on other platforms through [http://www.winehq.org Wine], an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.

Using WPKG on Linux may be helpful in the following situations:

* we don't have a Windows machine and would like to see how WPKG works
* we have a double-boot system, and we don't feel like rebooting to Windows to see how WPKG works
* we would like to change some code in WPKG, and test how it works


To use WPKG with Wine, you have to install:
* Internet Explorer
* [[Download|scripten.exe]]

To install Internet Explorer on your non-Linux system, search through the Wine website, you should find links to articles describing how to do it.

Installing scripten.exe is easy, just do "wine scripten.exe".


Below - a sample output of WPKG running on a Linux box:

 $ wine cscript wpkg.js /synchronize /debug
 Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.
 
 Settings file does not exist. Creating a new file.
 saving XML : C:\windows\system\wpkg.xml
 settings file contains 0 packages:
 
 packages file contains 2 packages:
 firefox
 notepad
 
 Using profile: custom
 profile: custom profileNode:
 number of available packages: 2
 checking existence of package:Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7
 Checking presence of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7; file check condition met.
 Bypassing installation of package Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7
 saving XML : C:\windows\system\wpkg.xml
 Installation of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 successful.
 Executing commands for notepad...
 executing command : notepad


If you're curious, just make a "wpkg" directory, for example here:

Program Files/
windows/
wpkg/

and put wpkg.js, hosts.xml, packages.xml and profiles.xml files into it.


Below - sample files that I used on a Linux box.

hosts.xml:

 <wpkg>
 
     <host name="mangoo2" profile-id="custom" />
 
 </wpkg>


packages.xml:

 <packages>
 
  <package
    id="firefox"
    name="Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7"
    revision="1"
    reboot="false"
    priority="10">
   <check type="file" condition="exists" path="C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" />
   <install cmd='"C:\Firefox Setup 1.0.7.exe" -ms'>
    <exit code="0" />
   </install>
   <remove cmd='C:\Windows\UninstallFirefox.exe -ms' />
  </package>
 
  <package
   id="notepad"
   execute="once"
   name="notepad">
   <install cmd='notepad' />
  </package>
 
 </packages>


profiles.xml:

 <profiles>
 
    <profile id="custom">
        <package package-id="firefox" />
        <package package-id="notepad" />
    </profile>
 
 </profiles>


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