Comments on JTB World Blog: Silent installation of Autodesk DWG TrueView

Thanks for the information - it is a big help! I h...

2006-02-28T13:00:00.000+01:00

Thanks for the information - it is a big help!

I have made a simpler guide which viewers might find easier to digest:

To find the setup.exe, I extracted the downloaded SetupDWGTrueView2.exe with Winzip.

Then, to get the setup.exe to run silently for me, I made the following modifications to the setup.ini file:

replaced the following command in the [SETUP] section:
SETUP_STARTUP_MESSAGE=NO
with:
SETUP_STARTUP_MESSAGE=YES

added the following commands in the [AOEM] section:
INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\Autodesk\DWG TrueView"
ACAD_SILENT_LICENSE=YES

replaced the following command in the [AOEM] section:
INSTALL_CMD_ARGS=/L*v %temp%\DWGVInstall.log
with
INSTALL_CMD_ARGS=/qb! /L*v %temp%\DWGVInstall.log

replaced the following command in the [VIEWER] section:
INSTALL_CMD_ARGS=/u2 /q2
with
INSTALL_CMD_ARGS=/qb! /L*v %temp%\DWGVInstall.log

Cheers,

Marcus

If you used the line like below it cannot work.INS...

2006-01-23T20:44:00.000+01:00

If you used the line like below it cannot work.
INSTALL_CMD_ARGS=INSTALL_CMD_ARGS=/qb! /L*v %temp%\DWGVInstall.log INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\Autodesk\DWG TrueView" ACAD_SILENT_LICENSE=YES

INSTALL_CMD_ARGS= seems to have been added twice.

Try instead:
INSTALL_CMD_ARGS=/qb! /L*v %temp%\DWGVInstall.log INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\Autodesk\DWG TrueView" ACAD_SILENT_LICENSE=YES

I am trying to deploy this using the changes you p...

2006-01-23T20:24:00.000+01:00

I am trying to deploy this using the changes you posted for the setup.ini file. It doesn't seem to be working as stated. When it gets to the line INSTALL_CMD_ARGS=INSTALL_CMD_ARGS=/qb! /L*v %temp%\DWGVInstall.log INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\Autodesk\DWG TrueView" ACAD_SILENT_LICENSE=YES it seems to be ognoring the command line entirely. It runs the setup as it would if no switches were present. Any ideas?

An update to my previous comment. I am pushing DWG...

2005-12-15T00:15:00.000+01:00

An update to my previous comment. I am pushing DWG Trueview out by login script. (Batch file)

I just check to to see if the program executable exists. If not, I know it hasn't been installed, so I fire the "setup.exe"

MSI runtime and the .NET framework are installed as well as DWG Trueview.

I have the logon script (batch file) append a user-defined .LOG file so I know where the install has been run.

In my previous post, I should have mentioned that ...

2005-11-21T18:33:00.000+01:00

In my previous post, I should have mentioned that you need to execute the file WindowsInstaller-KB884016-v2-x86.exe using those command line switches. This file is located in the MSI folder of the zip file.

For MSI, you will notice a folder called 'MSI' whe...

2005-11-21T18:31:00.000+01:00

For MSI, you will notice a folder called 'MSI' when you extract the True View zip file. to execute this file silently, just add the flags /norestart and /quiet to the command line. If an MSI update is not necessary, this program does nothing.

All of our machines already have the .NET framework 1.0 and 1.1 installed on them, so I don't know what happens if these are not present...

That VBS script directly calls the .MSI file.I hav...

2005-11-02T18:59:00.000+01:00

That VBS script directly calls the .MSI file.

I have found that if the target machine needs to have the update for it's MSI runtime installed and/or the .NET framework installed, then running the main install by calling the .MSI file fails.

Maybe there is a way to script this and have it install the necessary MSI/.NET updates silently also? I haven't got that far yet.

One more note, this install requires IE6SP1 - if this is not installed, it will fail anyway.