Revision as of 09:56, 12 March 2010

Usage

Below (click here to scroll down) is a list of silent install, upgrade and uninstall configurations for many programs. If you have your own, please share them with us by posting them here as new pages and linking them to this category. (Click here for help)

Windows environment variables

Please use Windows environment variables (e.g. %PROGRAMFILES%) in your commands rather than absolute paths (e.g. C:\Program Files or C:\Programme) because they work independently of the language version of Windows and of the particular location on a system, which can vary.

Similarly, please also use %SOFTWARE% to specify the WPKG package installation directory on the server. Silent installer scripts will then work for everyone's setup, rather than only those whose directory structure matches your own. You define this in WPKG Client, or in a batch script starting wpkg.js, if you don't use WPKG Client - see installation instructions - advanced.

Silent installers for Windows Hotfixes

Silent installers for Windows Hotfixes (KB*) are listed here.

Changing Windows settings with WPKG

You can also change Windows settings with WPKG.

Identify client form factor for targeted installs

If you need to target your application installs to notebooks or desktops (for example) then you can identify the client form factor

Other lists of silent installer resources

If you can't find an installer for your package on this site then these resources might help:

• Linuxkidd's WPKG-Web Live Archive
• AppDeploy.com
• Unattended Project
  • Installers List of well known installers, how to identify them and what their command-line switches are.
  • Scripts Current list of application installation scripts in their repository.
• Guides von German-WinLite.de - Installer command line switches (title and some of the options are in German but the rest is in English)
• AppSnap database - in particular, the instparam, uninstparam, instversion and uninstall lines.
• Microsoft - Windows Installer - in particular the Command-line options

If you do create a silent installer, please support this resource and it's users by remembering to come back here and write up a packages.xml entry. Thank you.