Installed/Uninstalled silently or unattended
Article ID: KB0084390
Updated On:
| Products | Versions |
|---|---|
| TIBCO Rendezvous | - |
| Not Applicable | - |
Description
Resolution:
Yes, it is possible to perform a silent/unattended installation of TIBCO Rendezvous.
On Windows
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Rendezvous installation is performed using InstallShield and as such, allows you to perform silent installation by using proper arguments to setup a program and generate a "template" (or unattended answering file), which in turn can be used to automate further identical installation.
For Rendezvous 7.x, to get to this InstallShield "Setup.exe" file, you need to execute the Rendezvous self-extracting installation file first and let it extract the setup files to the default Windows temp directory. Once the setup files are unpacked, the setup will continue and you will see a pop-up window entitled "TIB/Rendezvous Version 7.x Installation". At this point you should cancel/exit the installation. Then you need to do the following steps:
1) Get into the directory where the setup files have been extracted to. e.g. C:\temp\pft1~tmp
2) Execute Setup.exe as follows to create an answer/response file: "setup -r". Please note the response file is called "setup.iss" and can be found in your C:\Windows directory after installation.
3) Once the response file is created, you need to execute "setup -s" to use it.
InstallShield also provides the -f1 and -f2 switches so you can specify the name and location of the response file and the location of the log file. To verify if a silent setup succeeded, look at the ResultCode value in the [ResponseResult] section of Setup.log. InstallShield writes an appropriate return value after the ResultCode keyname. Zero is returned when successful.
Similar to a silent install, you also need to create a response file for a silent uninstall.
Once this is created, you just need to execute "Setup.exe" specifying the response file and the silence parameter.
Silent Install:
1. Create Response file for Silent install: setup -r -f1c:\temp\setup.iss
2. Follow install prompts for RV until it is installed
3. Response "setup.iss" file should be created in the temp directory.
4. Execute Silent install: setup -s -f1c:\temp\setup.iss -f2c:\temp\setup.log
Silent Uninstall:
1. Create Response file for Silent uninstall: setup -r -f1c:\temp\remove.iss
2. Follow prompts until RV is uninstalled.
3. Response "remove.iss" file should be created in the temp directory.
4. Execute Silent uninstall: setup -s -f1c:\temp\remove.iss -f2c:\temp\remove.log
Please refer to http://www.installshield.com for details on how to accomplish this. Articles listed at the site, which may be of help are:
* Q100021
* Q104403
On UNIX
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The RV UNIX installer (INSTALL) is a shell script. Follow these steps:
1. Make a copy of the INSTALL file. Then, open INSTALL script, go to function display_lic(), modify "check_pager more" to "check_pager cat".
2. Go through INSTALL steps manually, and record your input in a file (like input.txt)
3. Run INSTALL <input.txt.
Yes, it is possible to perform a silent/unattended installation of TIBCO Rendezvous.
On Windows
============
Rendezvous installation is performed using InstallShield and as such, allows you to perform silent installation by using proper arguments to setup a program and generate a "template" (or unattended answering file), which in turn can be used to automate further identical installation.
For Rendezvous 7.x, to get to this InstallShield "Setup.exe" file, you need to execute the Rendezvous self-extracting installation file first and let it extract the setup files to the default Windows temp directory. Once the setup files are unpacked, the setup will continue and you will see a pop-up window entitled "TIB/Rendezvous Version 7.x Installation". At this point you should cancel/exit the installation. Then you need to do the following steps:
1) Get into the directory where the setup files have been extracted to. e.g. C:\temp\pft1~tmp
2) Execute Setup.exe as follows to create an answer/response file: "setup -r". Please note the response file is called "setup.iss" and can be found in your C:\Windows directory after installation.
3) Once the response file is created, you need to execute "setup -s" to use it.
InstallShield also provides the -f1 and -f2 switches so you can specify the name and location of the response file and the location of the log file. To verify if a silent setup succeeded, look at the ResultCode value in the [ResponseResult] section of Setup.log. InstallShield writes an appropriate return value after the ResultCode keyname. Zero is returned when successful.
Similar to a silent install, you also need to create a response file for a silent uninstall.
Once this is created, you just need to execute "Setup.exe" specifying the response file and the silence parameter.
Silent Install:
1. Create Response file for Silent install: setup -r -f1c:\temp\setup.iss
2. Follow install prompts for RV until it is installed
3. Response "setup.iss" file should be created in the temp directory.
4. Execute Silent install: setup -s -f1c:\temp\setup.iss -f2c:\temp\setup.log
Silent Uninstall:
1. Create Response file for Silent uninstall: setup -r -f1c:\temp\remove.iss
2. Follow prompts until RV is uninstalled.
3. Response "remove.iss" file should be created in the temp directory.
4. Execute Silent uninstall: setup -s -f1c:\temp\remove.iss -f2c:\temp\remove.log
Please refer to http://www.installshield.com for details on how to accomplish this. Articles listed at the site, which may be of help are:
* Q100021
* Q104403
On UNIX
============
The RV UNIX installer (INSTALL) is a shell script. Follow these steps:
1. Make a copy of the INSTALL file. Then, open INSTALL script, go to function display_lic(), modify "check_pager more" to "check_pager cat".
2. Go through INSTALL steps manually, and record your input in a file (like input.txt)
3. Run INSTALL <input.txt.
Issue/Introduction
Installed/Uninstalled silently or unattended
Environment
Product: TIBCO Rendezvous
Version: 7.x.x
OS: UNIX Unspecified, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP
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