Comments on: Altiris SVS killed my firefox http://osblues.com/2006/03/31/altiris-svs-killed-my-firefox/ Life, technology and anything else that crops up.. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:06:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Scott Jones http://osblues.com/2006/03/31/altiris-svs-killed-my-firefox/#comment-29 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:46:16 +0000 http://www.osblues.com/2006/03/31/altiris-svs-killed-my-firefox/#comment-29 We’re sorry you had trouble, Adam! Doing a capture of an app installation on a machine that already has that app conventionally installed could potentially be problematic. I’m not sure what happened, but it’s not a use case we tested. This release is primarily designed for corporate use. When preparing an app for centralized distribution, the capture would normally be done on a clean repackaging machine in a lab.

I’ve seen some other blog posts where individuals have caught on that Parallels is a super cheap way to get yourself a “clean machine” for SVS repackaging. Still, as long as the app doesn’t already exist on your box, you’ll usually be ok.

For Firefox, I recommend downloading our pre-build .vsa at http://juice.altiris.com/svs, under “Sample Applications”.

Thanks for giving SVS a shot. Please do try it again; the payoffs are indeed awesome.

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