Sparkle

Install package silently?

Asked by Aaron Harpole

I have Sparkle implemented for a plugin which needs to be installed with a package. It works pretty well, but when you actually click "Install and Relaunch," the Installer app pops up (not to the front; it's behind the Sparkle window) and the user has to walk through the process. I'd like the update process to be as friction free as possible, and this isn't 100% intuitive.

Is there something I can do to my package that lets Sparkle install it without opening the Installer app? I'm perfectly okay with the password dialog popping up; I just don't want my users to have to walk through the install process to update.

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Best Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak) said : 		#1

If you need to use a package to provide some kind of additional logic or commands to be performed with the installation, you can always just make a custom build of Sparkle which performs those actions. But Sparkle doesn't support UI-less .pkg installations.

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Aaron Harpole (nerd05) said : 		#2

I was afraid of this. The reason I'm using an installer package is because this is a non-app bundle for the Mail app. Perhaps if I get ambitious one of these days I'll dig into Sparkle code and see if there's a way I can make it install silently.

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Aaron Harpole (nerd05) said : 		#3

Thanks Andy Matuschak, that solved my question.

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Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak) said : 		#4

Oh, if you're just trying to in-place update the bundle for which the SUUpdater is initialized, that should just work if you put the bundle in a .zip. See here for more: https://github.com/andymatuschak/Sparkle/wiki/Bundles.