Silent Installations
  • 25 Jan 2024
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Silent Installations

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

1.1. How to Generate an Answers File

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

  1. Provide the following argument:
    -o PathToAnswersFile
  • An example of this argument is 12dSynergy_Client_<Version number>.exe –o c:\temp\answers.txt

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

  • 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. It is recommended you type this information.

1.2. How to Perform a Silent Installation

  1. Specify the following arguments on the command line:
    -gm2 –m silent –a <PathToAnswersFile>

1.3. How to Uninstall a Product

  1. Specify the following arguments:
    -gm2 –m silent –u –a <PathToAnswersFile>
An example of this argument is C:\Program Files (x86)\12d\12d Synergy\5.0\Client\uninstaller.exe –gm2 –m silent –u –a c:\temp\answers.txt

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. It is recommended you type this information. 


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