Applicabilty and Installed Rules Not Available

I am trying to create a new package using the New Package wizard. After I have selected my msp package and click next and then, the wizard goes directly to Summary. According to help, Applicability Rules and Installed Rules step should be between Select Package and Summary. Do I have to enable someting in previous step to make those rules avalables?

Any help would be apreciated

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David_Di_Blasio

Per Patch Packages

"A Windows Installer patch (.msp file) is a file used to deliver updates to Windows Installer applications. The patch is a self-contained package that contains all the information required to update the application."

This basically means all the rules are "baked" into that package already. If you take a look at the Adobe Systems, Inc. Packages in the third party catalog you can see a few examples of msp package rulesets.

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David_Di_Blasio

Per Patch Packages

pidom

That's what I tought but the msp keep trying to install even if the software on the target computer is up to date so I started to doupt that my assumption was right. Maybe it is the msp itself that does'nt validate correctly the version of current installation. I'll ask to technical support of this software.

Thanks for your help David

David_Di_Blasio

Might I ask what exact package you are deploying?

pidom

It is a patch for Antidote HD. It is french correction software we are using. The patch is avalable here.

http://www.druide.com/telecharger/Win/antidote_hd/Maj_AntidoteHD_v6.1.msp