enternaL Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 I have Dead AIM 4.5 (www.jdennis.net) that uses Installshield. When I ran it using: "/s /v/qn", it installed in "C:\Program Files\JDennis\DeadAIM\" when it is suppose to install in "C:\Program Files\AIM\" Even when I ran it normally, it installed in the AIM folder.So I ran this to get the setup.iss:deadaim.exe -RAnd after it completed, I went to C:\Windows, but there was no setup.iss. I even searched for "*.iss" with no results. Can anyone help me out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 -R only works for Installshield installers.DeadAIM using the Windows Installer.You are using the correct switches, however whenever you use silent switches the default installation path is used, and in this case it is the JDennis folder.EDIT:try this....DEADAIM.EXE s /v"INSTALLDIR=%PROGRAMFILES%\AIM /qn"if that doesn't work, tryDEADAIM.EXE s /v"INSTALLDIR=[ProgramFilesFolder]\AIM /qn" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enternaL Posted April 3, 2004 Author Share Posted April 3, 2004 Oops, I thought it was Installshield because it had "Installshield" labels at the bottomish during installation, and the titlebar if I remember correctly.However, I still get an "Incorrect commandline parameters" error with those command lines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 oops, i left off the / on the /s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enternaL Posted April 3, 2004 Author Share Posted April 3, 2004 hehe I made that correction, but I wish that was the problem though.I get the error using this command:deadaim.exe /S /v"INSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\AIM /qn"I've tried using a batch file setting the %PROGRAMFILES% variable, but still no go-edit-Using this command line syntax, it runs and finishes without any errors, but doesn't install:deadaim.exe /s /v"/qn INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\AIM\""-edit edit-I found DeadAIM.msi in C:\Windows\Downloaded Installations\ but it doesn't like ANY switches - says "Incorrect command line parameters" for every switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 if you use the MSI, call it withmsiexec.exe /i (pathtomsi) /qb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enternaL Posted April 3, 2004 Author Share Posted April 3, 2004 yay It installed to Program Files\JDennis, but I used the following to install into the AIM folder, and it works perfectly. Thanks for your help. msiexec.exe /i C:\Install\Applications\AIM\DeadAIM.msi /qn INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\AIM\" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted April 4, 2004 Share Posted April 4, 2004 sweeeeet.i personally created an MST file, that way it also registers DeadAIM for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkreifus Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 yay It installed to Program Files\JDennis, but I used the following to install into the AIM folder, and it works perfectly. Thanks for your help. msiexec.exe /i C:\Install\Applications\AIM\DeadAIM.msi /qn INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\AIM\" is msiexec.exe a standard executable, or do I have to download it?Also, do I have to run and kill AIM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rishid Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 You have to kill AIM before running it I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waixingren Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 i had lots of problems getting deadaim to silent install too. but i did figure out and it works flawlesly. here is what i had in my start.cmdECHO.ECHO Installing Deadaimstart /wait msiexec.exe /i %systemdrive%\install\deadaim\DeadAIM.msi /qn INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\AIM\"ECHO.ECHO Repairing Deadaimstart /wait msiexec.exe /f %systemdrive%\install\deadaim\DeadAIM.msiECHO.ECHO Patching DeadaimCOPY /Y "%systemdrive%\install\deadaim\DeadAIM.ocm" "C:\Program Files\AIM\"for some reason things were messed up after the installing step, but once i put the repair step in everything worked perfect. for added convenience you may want to create a .reg of your deadaim settings to throw in there as well. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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