Silent installation and deinstallation of the standalone Windows version fails

Hi,

I'm currently trying to integrate Jalview in our Windows software deployment. However I could not find a way to install it silently. The standalone package should be an InstallAnywhere installer, but it doesn't seem to support the "-f <responsefile> -i silent" option. With "-i silent" the installer immediately quits. Same thing for the uninstaller. I could however successfully create a responsefile.

We need the package which includes Java, as standard installations here don't contain Java for security reasons.

Has anyone successfully deployed Jalview silently?

Cheers
frank

Hi Frank.

Relevant bug has been created here: http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1418

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Unfortunately, the 'Professional' version of InstallAnywhere we use does not support silent installations.

However, Jalview is a relatively simple package which doesn't modify the windows registry. if you have a mechanism for syncing Program File directories across clients, you could use that to sync an already installed Jalview package to other clients, along with any program shortcuts ?

Jim.

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On 06/12/2013 15:44, Frank Thommen wrote:

Hi,

I'm currently trying to integrate Jalview in our Windows software
deployment. However I could not find a way to install it silently. The
standalone package should be an InstallAnywhere installer, but it
doesn't seem to support the "-f <responsefile> -i silent" option. With
"-i silent" the installer immediately quits. Same thing for the
uninstaller. I could however successfully create a responsefile.

We need the package which includes Java, as standard installations here
don't contain Java for security reasons.

Has anyone successfully deployed Jalview silently?

Cheers
frank
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Thanks Jim,

I'll give it a try with the sync-installation. That should basically be fine. I'd however prefer, that the software would appear in the software centre as installed package (just for the sake of cleanliness and maintainability).

Cheers
frank

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On 06.12.13 17:38, Jim Procter wrote:

Hi Frank.

Relevant bug has been created here:
http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-1418

You can follow this bug to be notified of any updates if you register
yourself on the system.

Unfortunately, the 'Professional' version of InstallAnywhere we use does
not support silent installations.

However, Jalview is a relatively simple package which doesn't modify the
windows registry. if you have a mechanism for syncing Program File
directories across clients, you could use that to sync an already
installed Jalview package to other clients, along with any program
shortcuts ?

Jim.

On 06/12/2013 15:44, Frank Thommen wrote:

Hi,

I'm currently trying to integrate Jalview in our Windows software
deployment. However I could not find a way to install it silently. The
standalone package should be an InstallAnywhere installer, but it
doesn't seem to support the "-f <responsefile> -i silent" option. With
"-i silent" the installer immediately quits. Same thing for the
uninstaller. I could however successfully create a responsefile.

We need the package which includes Java, as standard installations here
don't contain Java for security reasons.

Has anyone successfully deployed Jalview silently?

Cheers
frank
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