I am trying to create a new silent install for Firefox 1.5 using the firefox CCK from the Mozilla website, it says zip.exe must be in the path. The question I have is has anyone gotten an install of Firefox to work doing this and if so, where is zip.exe obtained from?

maybe it is refering to pkzip.exe or something similar...

I understand that but I need to know what program it is because the parameters that are passed to it wont work if its not the correct program. I wish it said more where to get zip.exe from on the Mozilla site, but it does not.

Mozilla use's 7-zip

try searching these forums for "silence of the foxes", it'll return a pretty usefull thread

SOF doesnt work well for me. I am aware of it but it always generates errors when ran so I decided to try and go with the official product for the job.

@keytotime I have installed 7zip but the name of the executable is different. Should I just copy its executable and rename it zip.exe?

Have you also tried the command line version of 7-Zip?

command line version is 7z.exe. Contents of the installed 7Zip directory:

<DIR> Codecs

<DIR> Formats

<DIR> Lang

7z.exe

7z.sfx

7zCon.sfx

7zFM.exe

7zG.exe

7-zip.chm

7-zip.dll

7zip_pad.xml

copying.txt

descript.ion

file_id.diz

History.txt

License.txt

readme.txt

Uninstall.exe

Edited December 5, 200520 yr by jondercik

I suspect it's 7z.exe.

7z.exe is used to make 7z archive's.

You might try Info-Zip

SOF doesnt work well for me. I am aware of it but it always generates errors when ran so I decided to try and go with the official product for the job.

New version of SOF has been released and works correctly with FF 1.5 thread here

Edited December 6, 200520 yr by `Felix`