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WPKG with Wine

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Although WPKG was written to ease Windows administration, it can also run on other platforms through [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>