Help with silent install for deployment
Hello
i am trying to package Linqpad 7 up for deployment in our organization with SCCM, but every time i test it, it hangs while complaining (invisibly) about a missing file. here's the line i am using:
"LINQPad7Setup.exe" /verysilent /norestart /allusers /activateall=XXXXX-XXXXX /log="%windir%\temp\linqpad7.log"
(The "X's" above are replaced with the actual key, just didn't want to put it here)
When i run the same line in a command prompt, it tells me "File 'C:\Program Files\LINQPad7\LINQPad.GUI.dll' does not exist". If i click OK on the message, the install finishes and LINQPad installs and launches and licenses as expected. However, i cannot count on my end users to accept this error message - is there something i am doing incorrectly or a switch i can employ to move past the message automatically?
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I'll get this fixed in the next release. In the meantime, you can work around this by removing the /activateall option from the setup command, and activating LINQPad afterwards as follows:
Excellent! thanks for the tip!
Greetings to anyone who ends up here while Googling for an answer!
The above suggestion does work. However, if you are deploying via SCCM task sequence (as i am currently) you will likely get a fail state with an error code of 0xE0434352 when trying to run the activate command.
However, the command still activates LINQPad, it just doesn't like that it pops a modal dialog box briefly while it does it.
So, the way i got around it was to set the option "Continue on Error" in the Command Line step. I am sure there are cooler, nerdier ways to do it, but there you go.
Good Luck!