PaintDotNet

This is a silent installer, updater and remover for Paint.NET.

Paint.NET is a spiffy image editor for Windows using C#.

Requirements

  • Administrator access
  • Create a .msi from the .exe (/auto on the .exe will fail if you're using the WPKG Client or running WPKG over ssh and it has no option to run silently either)
  • .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Extract .msi packages

To do this download the installer and run it with the options you want, making sure to add "/createMsi":

Paint.NET.3.5.8.Install.exe /createMsi CHECKFORUPDATES=0 CHECKFORBETAS=0 JPGPNGBMPEDITOR=1 TGAEDITOR=1 ALLUSERS=1 DESKTOPSHORTCUT=0

If you experience issues with the MSI installers taking between 45 minutes to an hour then you might want to delay the .NET optimization by adding "QUEUENGEN=1" after the "/createMsi" switch (See REM line in below CreateMSI script)as explained in this forum

Another way is to use the command script below and specify the MSI properties individually. In addition this renames the MSI packages to allow using the PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE environment variable.

@rem Create_Install_Packages.cmd
@echo off

set script_name=%~nx0
set script_dir=%~dp0
set script_ext=%~x1

if "X%1" == "X" goto :usage
if not "%script_ext%" == ".exe" goto :usage

set installer=%~1
set installer_name=%~n1

echo.
echo Extracting MSI packages ...
"%installer%" /createMsi
REM "%installer%" /createMsi QUEUENGEN=1

echo.
echo Moving installers to software depot ...
echo. 
move /Y "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\PaintDotNetMsi\PaintDotNet.x64.msi" "%script_dir%\%installer_name%_AMD64.msi" && echo AMD64 package successfully moved ...
echo.
move /Y "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\PaintDotNetMsi\PaintDotNet.x86.msi" "%script_dir%\%installer_name%_x86.msi" && echo x86 package successfully moved ...

echo.
echo Deleting temporary folder ...
rmdir /s /q "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\PaintDotNetMsi" && echo Folder deleted successfully ...

echo.
pause

goto :EOF

:usage
echo.
echo Usage:
echo.
echo       Drop the "Paint.NET.___.Install.exe" onto "%script_name%" to create the MSI packages.
echo.
pause

Package for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

!!! This package requires wpkg.js 1.3.1 !!!

<package 
	id="paintnet"
	name="Paint .NET"
	revision="%PKG_VERSION%"
	reboot="false"
	priority="0">

	<variable name="PKG_VERSION"		value="4.2.10" />
	<variable name="PKG_SOURCE"		value="%SOFTWARE%\PaintNET\%PKG_VERSION%" />
	<variable name="PKG_NAME"		value="PaintDotNet_x86.msi" architecture="x86" />
	<variable name="PKG_NAME"		value="PaintDotNet_x64.msi" architecture="x64" />
	<variable name="PKG_INSTALL_SWITCH"	value="/qn" />

	<check type="uninstall" condition="versiongreaterorequal" path="paint.net" value="%PKG_VERSION%" />

	<install cmd='msiexec /i %PKG_SOURCE%\%PKG_NAME% %PKG_INSTALL_SWITCH%' />

	<upgrade include="install" />

	<remove cmd='wmic product where "name like &apos;paint.net&apos;" call uninstall' /> 
</package>

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