Silent installation options

[Mitch Tamsett]

Hey guys,

We deploy our software to our education classroom fleet and with version 10 this was able to be completed with silent switches. Any idea's on how to get this working on version 11 since the installer seems to have changed?

Thanks!

[Graeme Winfield]

Info from Richard

V11 is not a standard MSI installer, but still provides the capability to perform silent or unattended installations.

This is done by first generating an answers file that can help you repeat an installation.

Generating an Answers File
Run the installer with the command line argument:
-o PathToAnswersFile

eg: -o c:\temp\answers.txt

Running the install
Run the installer with the command line arguments:
-gm2 -m silent -a PathToAnswersFile

eg: -gm2 -m silent -a c:\temp\answers.txt

Automatic Uninstall
You can also perform an automatic uninstall of the previous version using the -u flag

eg: -gm2 -m silent -u -a c:\temp\answers.txt

[Mitch Tamsett]

Hey Graeme,

Thanks for your quick response mate. Will give this a go!

Cheers!

[Graeme Winfield]

The following command is used for installing and uninstalling
-gm2 -m silent -u -a answers.xml

If using it to install then run this command on the setup.exe, if using it to uninstall use it on the uninstaller.exe located in the installation directory.
You will need to provide the appropriate answers file when using the command.

The following command will run the installer or uninstaller and generate an answers file for you, depending on which exe you used it on.
-o answers.xml

Again if you run it with the setup.exe it will produce the answers.xml for installation. If you use it with the uninstaller.exe it will produce the answers.xml for the uninstaller.