By default an unattended installation applies the default settings of
the installer. If you want to install the application on a large number of
computers but you need to change the default values of some settings (like the
install folder on disk, whether a desktop icon or a quick launch shortcut is
created, the file associations created in the operating system, the name of the
program group on the Start menu, etc.) then you should use a special settings
file which specifies the new values for these settings. To generate the
settings file you have to run the installer in normal attended mode once on a
test computer and specify the exact options that you want for the unattended
installation. When the installation is completed a file called
response.varfile and containing your selected
options is created in the
.install4j subfolder of the installation folder, by
default
C:\Program Files\Oxygen XML Author
12\.install4j
on Windows. This is a one time process. After that for applying
these options on all the computers where an unattended installation is
performed you have to specify this file in the command line, for example copy
the file in the same location as the installer program and use the command:
- - on Windows:
-
author.exe -q -varfile response.varfile
- - on Linux:
-
author.sh -q -varfile response.varfile