Silent Installations

The 12d Solutions Installer is capable of performing silent installers, which may assist in automatic rollouts of upgrades.

1.1 Generating an Answers File

To perform a silent installation, you will need to generate an answers file.

To do so, provide the following argument:

-o PathToAnswersFile

For example,

12dSynergy_Client_x86.exe –o c:\temp\answers.txt

When the installation is completed, an answers file will be generated for use time.

Note: If you are using the PDF version of this information, a Unicode character may be copied to the Windows Command Line, which is not Unicode aware.

1.2 Performing a Silent Installation

To perform a silent installation, specify the following arguments on the command line:

-gm2 –m silent –a PathToAnswersFile

If you would like to also automatically uninstall the product first, use these arguments

-gm2 –m silent –u –a PathToAnswersFile

For example,

12dSynergy_Client_x86.exe –gm2 –m silent –u –a c:\temp\answers.txt

Note: If you are using the PDF version of this information, a Unicode character may be copied to the Windows Command Line, which is not Unicode aware. This may cause this command line to fail to run. Consider typing this information in by hand.