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jrbower
jrbower wrote ...

2013/11/12

Is there a silent installer for Greenfoot 230?

jrbower jrbower

2013/11/12

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Is there a silent installer for Greenfoot 230? I need to be able to push this out to school labs silently.
GreenHouse GreenHouse

2013/11/12

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:D i know this ;) http://www.greenfoot.org/download "Stand Alone" is what you need.
davmac davmac

2013/11/12

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I assume this is for Windows? Greenfoot 2.3.0 has an .msi bundle, so you can silently install using standard msi procedure. There's a bunch of detail for BlueJ here: http://bluej.org/help/faq.html#winsilentinstall ... and everything there also applies to Greenfoot. I believe that if you roll out using policy as per Microsoft's standard procedure then the '/q' switch is automatically applied, so you get a silent install by default. That is, I don't think you need a separate installer package for silent installation. (In fact, as far as I understand it, you should never really need a special "silent install" package for any product, if their package is correctly constructed).
jrbower jrbower

2013/11/13

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I am not sure the stand alone version will work, but I am going to give it a try. I did however try all the switches provided by BlueJ (/q, /Q, /S, /s, /silent, /verysilent, etc.) and none of them work. We use Configuration Manager 2012 in our enviroment to distribute software. It has to be packaged up and run silently. Normally I will package software up using Advance Installer, but for some reason this MSI will not capture correctly. It keeps failing for reason unknown. There is something built into the MSI that will not allow for it to be repackaged. Of course if I can just get it to run silently I do not need to repackage it. I will try the stane alone and re-post!
jrbower jrbower

2013/11/13

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Okay, the stand alone would not work. However, I was able to get the MSI to finally run silently. Here is the command msiexec /qn /i greenfoot230.msi Now that is not the original name of the MSI, that is what I rename it after I downloaded.
davmac davmac

2013/11/13

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There is something built into the MSI that will not allow for it to be repackaged
That sounds strange - there's nothing we do specially when we create the package to disallow repackaging, as far as I know. Anyway, glad you got it sorted. (The switches for BlueJ that you mention are for the old (InnoSetup-based) installer. The switches supported now (with the msi-based installer) are those that I gave in the link above - http://bluej.org/help/faq.html#winsilentinstall.)
jrbower jrbower

2013/11/14

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Yes I found that very strange myself, but trust me, I done everything possible to try and repackage it and it wil not happen. Yes I realized that after the fact. Thank you again for your help.
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