Hello everybody!
We use LO (under Windows 10 and 11) to generate documents from a database via templates, so we like to check in a test environment that this workflow still generates correct positioning of text elements in the documents before we roll out LO updates to all users. That is why we really don’t like LO to automatically update.
In the past disabling auto-update worked by installing the msi file with options ISCHECKFORPRODUCTUPDATES=0 and REMOVE=gm_o_Onlineupdate. That is how we rolled out version 24.8.5.2 a few months ago. But now I see LO automatically updating to version 24.8.6.2.
The problem (apart from the unwanted update in the first place…) is that the new version is not reflected in appwiz.cpl, meaning the registry keys under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ are not updated along with the program. One of my powershell scripts for software inventory relies on those registry keys. So users who don’t pay attention to the update dialog during LO startup will use a different version from that approved by system administration and system administration will learn about that mismatch only by looking at the file details in the installation directory. That’s a bit nasty.
So: how can I really, really, REALLY disable any auto-update feature during a MSI installation from command prompt?
Any ideas welcome…
Greetings from Dortmund, Germany