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‎Jun 10, 2015
04:56 AM
Create a silent installation package
I am creating an Advanced UI Project and wanted to make it a silent exe installation package. Is there a way to achieve this? Please help if there is one!
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‎Jun 10, 2015
09:09 AM
Anyone??? Anything???
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‎Jun 10, 2015
02:34 PM
I am not sure what you are asking.
1. Do you want the Suite package to always install silently (no UI at all). If so then you need some type of wrapper around this suite package that will launch the setup with a /silent switch and pass in all appropriate command line options.
2. Do you want one of the packages of the suite to install silently. If this is the case you need to identify the silent/quiet command for the package in question. All MSI packages install silently by default. There isn't a need to include a /q in the Install command line. For EXE packages the command varies from publisher to publisher.
For creating a wrapper that can be installed silently, I have used 7z to create a configuration file and silent self-extracting executable.
To do this I had to first make sure that I downloaded the 7z extra package that includes support for SFX, self-extracting executables.
Then I added a step in my build process to create a zip file of the setup.
After that completes I then have to create the self-extracting file.
Here is my batch file option to create the zip file:
DESCRIPTION: a (archive)
1. Do you want the Suite package to always install silently (no UI at all). If so then you need some type of wrapper around this suite package that will launch the setup with a /silent switch and pass in all appropriate command line options.
2. Do you want one of the packages of the suite to install silently. If this is the case you need to identify the silent/quiet command for the package in question. All MSI packages install silently by default. There isn't a need to include a /q in the Install command line. For EXE packages the command varies from publisher to publisher.
For creating a wrapper that can be installed silently, I have used 7z to create a configuration file and silent self-extracting executable.
To do this I had to first make sure that I downloaded the 7z extra package that includes support for SFX, self-extracting executables.
Then I added a step in my build process to create a zip file of the setup.
After that completes I then have to create the self-extracting file.
Here is my batch file option to create the zip file:
"%ZIPDIR%\7z.exe" a ac.7z -t7z -sfx7zS.sfx *.exe
DESCRIPTION:
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