How do you silently install Adobe After Effects 7?

[sjo76]

I am having trouble installing After Effects 7 silently, and from what I understand Premiere Pro 2 has similar issues. Trying to install the app from the msi doesn't work - you are prompted to use the setup exe. The setup exe doesn't seem to support any command line switches, well any that I can find i.e /r . And I can't see any docs on the Adobe website refering to anything like the CS2 xml method of setting the app up (unless you have Production Studio) or any other non standard deployment mechanism for that matter.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edited June 27, 2006 by sjo76

[cybaersam]

hello there...

i wanted to install After Effects too...

after a lot of try and fail.... i finaly found a way...

(this might work for all adobe programms... i only tested it on After Effects 7 so far...)

well first open your "ABCPY.INI" and put in your stuff like name, serial and install dir....

my file looks like this (the important part)

;***************************************************************
;OEM Installation Options
;***************************************************************
[OEM Install]
SERIALNUMBER=XXXX-XXxX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
USERNAME=name
COMPANYNAME=
INSTALLDIR=C:\Programme\Appz\Adobe\After Effects 7 Pro

now that we are done with that we open "ADBSETUP.CFG"

here... if your file has only one line... try to sort it out so it looks like a normal script file....

then set anything your find to silent...

means... set the "<Redist silent="0">" to "<Redist silent="1">"

and the "<Installer log="1" silent="0" aumSupport="1" order="2">" to "<Installer log="1" silent="1" aumSupport="1" order="2">"

after that your installation will be silent...

well the only problem i have is that the language select is still shown... once i set it not to show then the setup wont start... (i'm still looking fir a way to get to work fully silent)

hope this helps a bit for those wanted to istall adobe stuff...

PS:

oh yeah... here is my "ADBSETUP.CFG"

if you copy and past it should work for you too... (since it doesnt contain stuff that is user/computer spezific...)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<Bootstrapper NS0:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="D:\InstallerDev\InstallerDev\Sandboxes\mweagle\SetupLauncher\Schema\BootstrapperSchema.xsd" xmlns:NS0="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
	<PreConditions>
		<MSI>
			<MinimumVersion>3.0</MinimumVersion>
			<SuppressReboot>1</SuppressReboot>
			<Redist silent="1">
				<MinOSMajorVersion>5</MinOSMajorVersion>
				<MinOSMinorVersion>0</MinOSMinorVersion>
				<MinOSServicePackMajor>3</MinOSServicePackMajor>
				<MinOSServicePackMinor>0</MinOSServicePackMinor>
				<Location>
					<Type>0</Type>
					<Data>instmsi30.exe</Data>
					<Compression>0</Compression>
				</Location>
				<Args>/quiet /norestart</Args>
			</Redist>
		</MSI>
	</PreConditions>
	<UserInterface>
		<PayloadName lang="1033" default="1">Adobe After Effects 7.0</PayloadName>
		<ShowLanguageSelect>1</ShowLanguageSelect>
		<SupportedLanguages>
			<Language>1033</Language>
		</SupportedLanguages>
	</UserInterface>
	<Payload>
		<Patch uiLevel="35" order="1">
			<Location>
				<Type>0</Type>
				<Data>Bridge101Patch.msp</Data>
				<Compression>0</Compression>
			</Location>
		</Patch>
		<Installer log="1" silent="1" aumSupport="1" order="2">
			<Name lang="1033" default="1">Adobe After Effects 7.0</Name>
			<Location>
				<Type>0</Type>
				<Data>Adobe After Effects 7.0.msi</Data>
				<Compression>0</Compression>
			</Location>
			<Patch>
				<Type>0</Type>
				<Data>AfterEffects.msp</Data>
				<Compression>0</Compression>
			</Patch>
			<Property name="BOOTSTRAPPER">1</Property>
			<Transform langSpecific="1">
				<Location>
					<Type>0</Type>
					<Data>1031.mst</Data>
					<Compression>0</Compression>
				</Location>
				<SupportedLang lang="1031"></SupportedLang>
			</Transform>
			<Transform langSpecific="1">
				<Location>
					<Type>0</Type>
					<Data>1033.mst</Data>
					<Compression>0</Compression>
				</Location>
				<SupportedLang lang="1033"></SupportedLang>
			</Transform>
			<Transform langSpecific="1">
				<Location>
					<Type>0</Type>
					<Data>1034.mst</Data>
					<Compression>0</Compression>
				</Location>
				<SupportedLang lang="1034"></SupportedLang>
			</Transform>
			<Transform langSpecific="1">
				<Location>
					<Type>0</Type>
					<Data>1036.mst</Data>
					<Compression>0</Compression>
				</Location>
				<SupportedLang lang="1036"></SupportedLang>
			</Transform>
			<Transform langSpecific="1">
				<Location>
					<Type>0</Type>
					<Data>1040.mst</Data>
					<Compression>0</Compression>
				</Location>
				<SupportedLang lang="1040"></SupportedLang>
			</Transform>
			<Transform langSpecific="1">
				<Location>
					<Type>0</Type>
					<Data>1041.mst</Data>
					<Compression>0</Compression>
				</Location>
				<SupportedLang lang="1041"></SupportedLang>
			</Transform>
			<Property name="BOOTSTRAPPER">1</Property>
		</Installer>
	</Payload>
</Bootstrapper>

Edited August 2, 2006 by cybaersam