How to setup Silent Install?

ckit · Post by **ckit** » 2007 Jun 27, 12:28

Here's my current script...

@echo off
start /wait "xplorer2_setup 1.7.0.3.exe" /silent
regedit /s xplorer2.reg
start /wait "x2docs 1.7.0.3-1.exe"
exit

I have already tried using the "/S" switch but it doesn't work

Post by **nikos** » 2007 Jun 27, 16:56

NSIS installers recognize /S for silent installation, /NCRC to suppress the CRC (verification) step, and /D=dir to specify the "output directory", which is where the program will be installed. These options are case-sensitive, so be sure to type them in upper case.

probably you have to put /s inside the quotation marks because "start" is using it itself (?)

ckit · Post by **ckit** » 2007 Jun 28, 04:09

Thank you, I had to kill all "start /wait" crap to get it to work

@echo off
"xplorer2_setup 1.7.0.3.exe" /S
regedit /s xplorer2.reg
"x2docs 1.7.0.3-1.exe"
exit

ckit · Post by **ckit** » 2007 Jun 28, 04:54

Ok, I have a new problem...

@echo off
"xplorer2_setup 1.7.0.3.exe" /S
if exist "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\xplorer2.lnk" move "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\xplorer2.lnk" "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch"
regedit /s xplorer2.reg
taskkill /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq xplorer2*"
"x2docs 1.7.0.3-1.exe"
exit

I can't get TaskKill to kill the window xplorer2 opens after installing!

Post by **nikos** » 2007 Jun 28, 07:41

i don't know these tools, but the window title is xplorer² not xplorer2

ckit · Post by **ckit** » 2007 Jun 28, 09:52

Yes but that's for the app itself not the folder that the installer opens after installing.

TaskKill comes with Win2000 and higher.

JRz · Post by **JRz** » 2007 Jun 28, 14:22

nikos wrote:[...]probably you have to put /s inside the quotation marks because "start" is using it itself (?)

That's right Nikos!

ckit wrote:Thank you, I had to kill all "start /wait" crap to get it to work

Not neccessary with the tip from Nikos. If you want the first command to finsih before the second starts and so on, you were spot on using 'start /wait', but as Nikos points out, you have to put the command line parameters for the command you want to start inside the double quotes.

JRz · Post by **JRz** » 2007 Jun 28, 14:32

ckit wrote:Ok, I have a new problem...

@echo off
"xplorer2_setup 1.7.0.3.exe" /S
if exist "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\xplorer2.lnk" move "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\xplorer2.lnk" "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch"
regedit /s xplorer2.reg
taskkill /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq xplorer2*"
"x2docs 1.7.0.3-1.exe"
exit

I can't get TaskKill to kill the window xplorer2 opens after installing!

It's safer to use the imagename I suspect. If you are using the unicode version (which you are of course), that would be "xplorer2_UC.exe"
So the command would be:

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taskkill /IM xplorer2_UC.exe

This will work even when you decide to put the name 'xplorer²' at the end of the window title using an advanced option of X². When you would do that, it obviously would break your script if it relied on the window tiltle starting with 'xplorer²'

HTH