dkreifus Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 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 0001Basque 1069 002dBulgarian 1026 0002Catalan 1027 0003Chinese (Simplified) 2052 0804Chinese (Traditional) 1028 0404Croatian 1050 Czech 1029 001aDanish 1030 0006Dutch (Standard) 1043 0413English 1033 Finnish 1035 0009French (Canadian) 3084 0c0cFrench (Standard) 1036 040cGerman 1031 0007Greek 1032 0008Hebrew 1037 000dHungarian 1038 000eIndonesian 1057 0021Italian (Standard) 1040 0410Japanese 1041 0011Korean 1042 0012Norwegian (Bokmal) 1044 0414Polish 1045 0015Portuguese (Brazilian) 1046 0416Portuguese (Standard) 2070 0816Romanian 1048 0018Russian 1049 0019Slovak 1051 001bSlovene 1060 0024Spanish (Traditional Sort) 1034 040aSwedish 1053 001dThai 1054 001eTurkish 1055 001fDoes 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCT Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 the language ID is a set of numbers microsoft uses 2 determine the language1033 = Englishso if u wanted a english language u would put Setup.exe /S /L 1033 hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe User 99 Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 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 dialogsthe /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 updatethese 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 0404you 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkreifus Posted June 10, 2004 Author Share Posted June 10, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe User 99 Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 I don't think you can customize settings from the install.The settings appear to be stored in a file called iTunes.prefin 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 wereASSUME_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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkreifus Posted June 10, 2004 Author Share Posted June 10, 2004 how did you find those? (so i can look next time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe User 99 Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek4jc Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayke Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 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. : ( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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