[Astalavista]

I would like assistance from the almighty group how to silently install
Eudora Pro 6, Vueprint, and Download Accelerator

[diesel_98a]

i used install rite on the dap. but i have thought about using iexpress to repackage it. something to think about.

[IcemanND]

Install Eudora 6 silently -
eudora6.msi /q

[DarkBringer]

I'm thinking this should be moved to the "Application Switches" section?

[Astalavista]

DarkBringer
unfortunately no one in the switches thread answered my post or can u find any referrence there how to do the above mention switches.

IcemanND
i don't want to install pure voice how do u specify that in the switch?

[IcemanND]

I'm not sure if you can. I'll see what I can find out. And get back to you.

[brent24]

Install eudora manually with the -R switch. Then grab the iss out of your windows directory and use the "setup -s -f1"<pathtoiss>setup.iss" style of installation.

[Astalavista]

ok i did the eudora.exe -r

when i tried to do a *.iss search from window nothing was found?

can you please elaborate on the process

[brent24]

-R

case sensitive

[brent24]

WAIT. Did you say eudora.exe. If that is the file you dl'ed from qualcomm, it's extractable. extract the files and you will have a bunch of files including setup.exe.

Run setup.exe with the -R option.

[IcemanND]

or if you can't extract the files, which I can't seem to today, run the Eudroa.exe and when it gives you the welcome screen to click next, open the temp folder for the current user, i.e c:\documents and settings\administrator\local settings\temp, there will be a folder PFTx.TMP, where x is a random character, this is the installer exploded, copy the folder to your desktop then cancel the installation. Run Setup.exe -r from the copied folder, select the install options you want during the install, DO NOT REBOOT if asked, and then find setup.iss in c:\windows.

Then to install silently - setup -s -f1"<pathtoiss>setup.iss"

[brent24]

thanks for a better worded explanation.

I just assumed they were familiar with the iss method.

[Astalavista]

did what u said... failed to work sorry.

[brent24]

works for me....everytime.

are you getting an error? :/

[brent24]

i just tested it out from scratch and it works fine.

here's what I did.

dl'ed eudora from www.eudora.com

right clicked and dragged to an empty directory called eudora that I created and selected "extract here" from the popup (i have wz installed, i assume everyone here does)

it extracted all the files to a directory called "disk1"

went to the disk1 directory and typed: setup.exe -R

installed without all the options and got an iss file in my windows directory

copied the iss file to the disk1 directory and deleted it from the window directory

went to add/remove progs, removed eudora, and rebooted.

went back to the disk1 directory and typed: start /wait .\setup.exe -s -f1"%cd%\setup.iss"

eudora installed silently

i opened eudora and went to the special-->message plugins menu and Pure Voice was not listed


here's the iss file it created just now

[InstallShield Silent]
Version=v5.00.000
File=Response File
[File Transfer]
OverwriteReadOnly=NoToAll
[DlgOrder]
Dlg0=SdWelcome-0
Count=10
Dlg1=SdLicense-0
Dlg2=SdComponentDialog2-0
Dlg3=SdAskDestPath-0
Dlg4=SdSetupType-0
Dlg5=SdDisplayTopics-0
Dlg6=SdSetupType-1
Dlg7=SdDisplayTopics-1
Dlg8=AskYesNo-0
Dlg9=SdFinish-0
[SdWelcome-0]
Result=1
[SdLicense-0]
Result=1
[SdComponentDialog2-0]
Eudora-type=string
Eudora-count=6
Eudora-0=Eudora\Program Files
Eudora-1=Eudora\Shared DLLs
Eudora-2=Eudora\common
Eudora-3=Eudora\plugins
Eudora-4=Eudora\Nickname
Eudora-5=Eudora\extrastuff
Component-type=string
Component-count=2
Component-0=Eudora
Component-1=Importers
Result=1
[SdAskDestPath-0]
szDir=C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Eudora
Result=1
[SdSetupType-0]
szDir=C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Eudora
Result=303
[SdDisplayTopics-0]
Result=12
[SdSetupType-1]
szDir=C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Eudora
Result=303
[SdDisplayTopics-1]
Result=1
[Application]
Name=Eudora
Version=6.0
Company=QUALCOMM Incorporated
Lang=0009
[AskYesNo-0]
Result=0
[SdFinish-0]
Result=1
bOpt1=0
bOpt2=0

one weird thing I just noticed is that it put 2 "SdDisplayTopics" (0 and 1)....hmmm

mine only has one

anyway it worked.

for my particular installation, though, I changed this line under SdSetupType (not SdAskDestPath, that's your "install to" path):

szDir=C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Eudora

changed to:
szDir=%userprofile%\Qualcomm\Eudora

I have tested this and it WORKS. And instead of using the C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Eudora to store all the mail settings, it uses the logged in users' profile so each user has their own profile. you can check this box in the eudora installer, but somehow it does not stick with the silent install unless you make that change.

[Astalavista]

GREAT!!!

[brent24]

hope it works for you.

[Astalavista]

Brent

is this correct?

reg add %Key%\018 /VE /D "Eudora Pro 6 [Registered Ver.]" /f
reg add %Key%\018 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\Eudora\setup.exe -s -f1\setup.iss" /f

if i add "%cd%

it won't load into my registry

[brent24]

you forgot to add escaped quotes around the f1 argument and the f1 argument needs to be fully qualified if your running it directly from the registry runonceex

this is how it should look.

reg add %Key%\018 /VE /D "Eudora Pro 6 [Registered Ver.]" /f
reg add %Key%\018 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\Eudora\setup.exe -s -f1\"%systemdrive%\install\Eudora\setup.iss\"" /f

that should work

also, did you make sure to edit the default eudora.ini to include your registration info.

[Astalavista]

I did this instead and it worked

reg add %Key%\018 /VE /D "Eudora Pro 6 [Registered Ver.]" /f
reg add %Key%\018 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Eudora\setup.exe -s -f1 "cd\setup.iss"" /f
reg add %Key%\018 /V 2 /D "%systemdrive%\install\Eudora\EudoraReg.exe" /f