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July 21, 2009
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Silent install of RoboSource Control 3.1

  • July 21, 2009
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I need to silently install both RoboHelp 8 and RoboSource Control 3.1 on several Windows XP machines.

Despite the confusing Adobe KB article, after much trial and error I was FINALLY able to get RoboHelp 8 to silently install with this command:

\\<server and path>\RoboHelp8\setup.exe -silent LANGUAGE=1033 -NODESKTOPICONS -RHPARAMETER="EPIC_EULA_ACCEPTED=1" -SERIALNUMBER="123456789012345678901234"

However, I am not able to get the RoboSource Control 3.1 silent install to work.  Here's the command I'm using:

msiexec /i "\\<server and path>\RoboHelp8\robosource\Setup.msi" TRANSFORMS=1033.mst EPIC_EULA_ACCEPTED=1 /qn

When I remove the /qn, I see this Windows Installer error message:

Error applying transforms.  Verify that the specified transform paths are valid.

The transforms 1031.mst, 1033.mst, 1036.mst and 1041.mst are at \\<server and path>\RoboHelp8\.

The transforms French.mst, German.mst and Japanese.mst are at \\<server and path>\RoboHelp8\robosource\. An English.mst does not exist.

I copied the transforms 1031.mst, 1033.mst, 1036.mst and 1041.mst to \\<server and path>\RoboHelp8\robosource\, but that did not make a difference.

Does anybody see why this isn't working?

Any help is much appreciated!

Brian

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July 21, 2009

I just found this:

http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=43651&mpage=1

Will be checking it out.

Brian

Peter Grainge
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July 21, 2009

Brian

This is not an area where us technical authors would get involved so sorry we couldn't help you and very many thanks for taking the trouble to post the answer to help the next person along.


See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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July 21, 2009

This forum has helped me in the past so I thought I'd return the favor.

BTW, this works: http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=43651&mpage=1

After making that change, I ran:

msiexec /i "\<server and path>\RoboHelp8\robosource\Setup.msi" /qn

...and it was silent to the end, didn't even need the TRANSFORMS or EULA parameters.

Brian