[wpkg-users] Silent installs of MSI or exe files.

[David Christensen]

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Malte Starostik wrote:
> Am Montag, 10. August 2009 21:40:15 schrieb David Christensen:
>> Charles Gargent wrote:
>>>> Is anyone familiar with modifying msi files by way of mst to do silent
>>>> installs, is this even possible?
> [...]
>>> Besides, anything you can run on the command line can be run in WPKG
>>> (if there are many command lines to run putting them in a batch file
>>> is a good idea.
>> I started investigating the mst option, but was unsure if that option
>> would work via WPKG.  With the issue at hand I need to include a new ini
>> file that contains site specific configuration options.  I downloaded
>> orca and created an mst, but wasn't clear on how to include the ini as
>> part of the mst or even what needed to be the final output after
>> everything  was changed.  This is about the time I started looking at
>> autoit, but based on your response it doesn't look like a valid solution.
>>
>> I'd like to try toe msi/mst route but I have limited knowledge of this
>> area, any pointers on where to look for howtos etc would be appreciated.
>>
> Hi David,
> 
> you might have a look at this one: http://www.instedit.com/ it's IMHO quite 
> nicer to handle than orca.  Then you just use sth. along the lines of
> msiexec /i path\to\setup.msi TRANSFORMS=path\to\transform.mst /qn /norestart
> as install command.  Alternatively, if it's only about dropping an additional 
> file into the target system, you might as well install the msi without 
> transform and add another command like
> %COMSPEC% /c copy /y path\to\config.ini path\to\destination\
> 
> HTH,
> Malte
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Malte,

Thanks for the info, based on my current need I will take your advice
and install the msi without the transform and copy the ini file over.
Is the %COMSPEC% command you provided intended to be appended to the
existing entry in the packages.xml file?

David
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