Hi Team,

I am working on an automation related to uninstalling and installing python versions on different windows servers.

I have observed that uninstallation is working only with the account/login using which the python version is installed. But for automation, we are not aware which account is being used for installation on different machines.

Also, with the approach of using msiexec.exe to uninstall different components of python version, though all the components are uninstalled successfully but still an entry for this version shows in the control panel with the options: Modify, repair and
uninstall. I am unable to identify which component has still remained as a part of the installer.

Could you please help me resolve these issues.

Thanks,
Tripura

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On 3 May 2024, at 17:43, Tripura Seersha via Python-list <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Team,

I am working on an automation related to uninstalling and installing python versions on different windows servers.

I have observed that uninstallation is working only with the account/login using which the python version is installed. But for automation, we are not aware which account is being used for installation on different machines.

I would guess that this is because you installed for the user not for all-users.
If true fix your install to do it for all-users and you should be able to uninstall as any user.

But this will require admin privs for both install and uninstall. As assume you can find out how to bet the admin priv required for your automation.

Barry

Also, with the approach of using msiexec.exe to uninstall different components of python version, though all the components are uninstalled successfully but still an entry for this version shows in the control panel with the options: Modify, repair and

uninstall. I am unable to identify which component has still remained as a part of the installer.

Could you please help me resolve these issues.

Thanks,
Tripura
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On 5/3/24 05:55, Tripura Seersha via Python-list wrote:

Hi Team,

I am working on an automation related to uninstalling and installing python versions on different windows servers.

I have observed that uninstallation is working only with the account/login using which the python version is installed. But for automation, we are not aware which account is being used for installation on different machines.

If you want to automate things properly, you need to control
installation as well as uninstallation - if things are just installed
via some random user account it's hard to see how you can expect later
steps without that knowledge to work out.

There's a fair bit of control available; if you haven't already, take a
look here:

https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#installing-without-ui

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On 5/10/24 03:39, Tripura Seersha via Python-list wrote:

Hi Barry,

Automation is using the system account using which the installation is failing with exit code 3. This account has the administrative privileges.

Please help me with this issue.

Thanks,
Seersha

You probably have a better chance of finding the attention of people who
know about the details either on the Python Discuss board
(discuss.python.org), or by filing an issue - after first checking
someone else isn't wrestling with the same problem you are - there are a
number of uninstall-related issues open (https://github.com/python/cpython/issues)

In particular, I see that this part of your issue:

I have observed that uninstallation is working only with the

account/login using which the python version is installed

seems to be a known problem, where the user who initiated the install
has the uninstall registered to their account - see https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/69353

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