iTunes 4.6

[dkreifus]

So iTunes 4.6 has some switches, but I honestly don't understand them fully..

/L Language ID
/S Hide initialization doalog. For silent mode: /S
/v /qn
/V paramaters to MsiExec.exe
/UA<url to InstMsiA.exe>
/UW<urll to InstMsiW.exe>
/UM<url to msi package>

I discovered this accidently, but it was provided by the Installshield box.

I found this on the installshield website...

Language Identifier (Windows Installer based) Identifier (InstallScript)

Arabic (Saudi Arabia) 1025 0001

Basque  1069  002d

Bulgarian  1026  0002

Catalan  1027  0003

Chinese (Simplified)  2052  0804

Chinese (Traditional)  1028  0404

Croatian  1050 

Czech  1029  001a

Danish  1030  0006

Dutch (Standard)  1043  0413

English  1033 

Finnish  1035  0009

French (Canadian)  3084  0c0c

French (Standard)  1036  040c

German  1031  0007

Greek  1032  0008

Hebrew  1037  000d

Hungarian  1038  000e

Indonesian  1057  0021

Italian (Standard)  1040  0410

Japanese  1041  0011

Korean  1042  0012

Norwegian (Bokmal)  1044  0414

Polish  1045  0015

Portuguese (Brazilian)  1046  0416

Portuguese (Standard)  2070  0816

Romanian  1048  0018

Russian  1049  0019

Slovak  1051  001b

Slovene  1060  0024

Spanish (Traditional Sort)  1034  040a

Swedish  1053  001d

Thai  1054  001e

Turkish  1055  001f

Does anyone undestand what this all means? I know the /S and im not sure how to work with the /L, but the rest is more or less jibberish.

[MCT]

the language ID is a set of numbers microsoft uses 2 determine the language

1033 = English

so if u wanted a english language u would put

Setup.exe /S /L 1033

hope this helps

[Joe User 99]

It's a setup.exe that is calling a MSI file.

/L Language ID is what language to use.

/S Hide initialization doalog. For silent mode: /S /v /qn

The /S hides the Setup.exe dialogs

the /v passes subsequent switches to msiexec

/qn tells msiexec to be silent.

/UA<url to InstMsiA.exe> this is the path to the win9x Windows installer update

/UW<urll to InstMsiW.exe> this is the path to the Win2k XP windows installer update

these are only for updating systems that need a newer Windows installer. It is not needed if they are up to date.

The language identifiers allow you to quickly tell which language file you need for the setup to be a particular language.

For example,

For Setup.exe to run in Chinese (Traditional) 1028 0404

you would use the 0x0404.ini (switch is like MCT demonstrated above.)

There are usually coresponding .mst files for MSIs.

So if iTunes is passing it's switchs to msiexec, it means it should be extracting a MSI based install to a temp folder, which means you could just grab that fileset and use the standard MSI switches, rather than go through the bother of these.

[dkreifus]

Thanks guys....

Do you know if these switches permit anything like customizing settings in Itunes, or somehow importing my current settings or playlists, smart or otherwise

[Joe User 99]

I don't think you can customize settings from the install.

The settings appear to be stored in a file called iTunes.pref

in the <userprofile>\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes folder.

But I imagine you could set up iTunes on a system, copy that file off and push it after install, and it would probably work.

As far as settings from the install. The only ones I noticed off hand were

ASSUME_MEDIA_DEFAULTS, which I think corresponds to the dialog option to set iTunes as the default audio player.

ASSUME_QT_DEFAULTS, which I think corresponds to the dialog option to set QuickTime as the default media player.

and

INSTALL_DESKTOP_SHORTCUTS, which I think corresponds to the dialog option to create desktop shortcuts.

These should all be useable in the commandline, after the /v to be passed to msiexec.

There may be others, but that is all I noticed on a quick look.

[dkreifus]

how did you find those? (so i can look next time)

[Joe User 99]

I ran the setup to the point where the first dialog appears.

Then I opened up windows explorer and browsed to my temp folder and there located the extracted temp files, including the iTunes.msi.

I then used my copy of Wise Package Studio to open the msi and have a look around. Found those in the Property table. But I also checked for custom actions, etc. I noticed there were no settings related registry settings, so I guessed there must be a config file, and just looked in the user profile\Application Data folder, as it is a default for such things.

[Derek4jc]

I'm having a problem installing itunes, and someone found this thread for me though a google search. I know it is old, but I'm hoping someone can potentially help me anyway.

I'm getting this message when I try to install itunes on my friend's computer...

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/Derek4jc/problem.jpg[/img]

I've read through the stuff already in this thread, and I'm completely confused to be honest. I'd really like to be able to help him get his itunes installed (I was told there was 50 bucks in it for me if I could find a solution.)

If someone basically could explain to be in simple terms (or even post the code i'd need and tell me how to use it if that is easier than explaining what to do) to get this installed for him, I would be grateful.

Thanks in advance if someone can help... I'm so confused

[rayke]

I also have the same problem as the guy above, with the exception that my error message is in glibberish.
I need to install Itunes for my ipod nano, pls any body help.
I do not want to waste my money on the ipod.
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