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Published: **February 27, 2020 - 9:55 PM**

Hi,

I found the method of installing Chrome in `update_package()` to get its version number rather cumbersome and sometimes failing until I restarted my VM. I found this alternative. The goal is to extract the "Comments" field from the MSI package, which contains the version number. I haven't found a clean way to extract it, but it works using `findstr`.

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run('for /f %a in (\'findstr "Copyright" "GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise64-fr.msi" ^|find "Copyright"\') do echo %a > version_chrome')
with open("version_chrome") as f:
        version_chrome = f.read()

and a little further on

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pe.version = version_chrome.strip() + '-0'

The code can probably be improved to be native Python, but it gives you an idea.

Published: **February 28, 2020 - 5:22 PM**

For your information, I modified it like this

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bin_name = "GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise64-fr.msi"
# Get version from description msi
db = msilib.OpenDatabase(bin_name, msilib.MSIDBOPEN_READONLY)
description = db.GetSummaryInformation(1).GetProperty(6)
version = description.split(' ',1)[0]

Published: **March 4, 2020 - 7:12 PM**

Ah, much cleaner

! Thank you!

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