This question is way too vague for us to begin helping you.

It sounds like you want to check for the existence of a particular program at install time and then .. what? Go fetch it? Or put up a pop-up box to tell the user to go get it?

What if the program is installed, but it's not where you were expecting it to be? What if the system isn't connect to the Net? Can the program that's being installed run without this package that you want to download?

What platform(s) are you targetting? Do you have any examples of software you've downloaded that behave the same way? How are you going to do a pop-up box if the software's being installed from the command line?

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

In reply to Re: install of secondary program from perl created .exe by talexb
in thread install of secondary program from perl created .exe by mustangman530

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