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QlikView Desktop 11.2 Software Installation Switches

I am trying to automate the installation of this product for our corporation but the installation switches are proving difficult. Ideally I need ideally to use an ALLUSERS switch passed to the MSI as I need to use a batch file to install the tool due to differing OS versions (32 or 64 bit). I have tried using setupfile.exe /S /v"ALLUSERS=1 /qn" but this is unsucessful, I have also tried just running it as /S /v/qn as it states when doing a setupfile /? but this does not work either.

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks

Dave

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Bill_Britt
Former Employee
Former Employee

HI,

I am not sure if this will work for the Desktop or not, but look at the attached comment for server installation. I would think some of the switches should work or give you some ideas.

Bill

Bill - Principal Technical Support Engineer at Qlik
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Noone has any idea on this or have I posted it in the wrong discussion

Bill_Britt
Former Employee
Former Employee

Hi Dave,

I am working on a document right now for one of my customer on this. From what I see right now "ALLUSERS" is not a valid switch..

Bill

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Thanks Bill, any idea how I can get more information?

I've found that if I install by just running the installer it doesn't seem to be there for all users

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After first installation Qlik will make a temp folder with .msi file

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\QlikTech Installations\{temp_folder}\QlikViewX64.msi

You can take it and install this .msi with /quiet parameter. But I cant find how to choose a lang for it or how to setup it after.

Will

Bill_Britt
Former Employee
Former Employee

HI,

I am not sure if this will work for the Desktop or not, but look at the attached comment for server installation. I would think some of the switches should work or give you some ideas.

Bill

Bill - Principal Technical Support Engineer at Qlik
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Daniel_Moore
Former Employee
Former Employee

Bill,

Thanks for the server Silent Install writeup - is there currently a writeup for Desktop silent install? When I did: QlikViewDesktop_x64Setup.exe /? I got

SilentSwitch.png

Please advise

Thanks

Daniel

Bill_Britt
Former Employee
Former Employee

Hi Daniel,

I would think most of the switch would work for desktop also. The below should work for an upgrade, I can't figure out how to change the interface language for a new install.

msiexec /i QlikViewX64.msi USERNAME="BATMAN" COMPANYNAME="CAVE"  /l*v C:/MSI.log /qn+

Bill

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stevedark
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Hi Bill,

How do you get hold of the .msi file, is this written somewhere when the EXE is unpacked?

Would the switches be different for a clean install?  If so can you point me in the right direction on these.

My client is looking to install in a Citrix client environment - do you know if this is likely to make any difference to the way QlikView is installed?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

quwok
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Regarding of getting the msi file, this is an excerpt from the QlikView Server Reference guide, it should be the same for the QlikView Desktop installation


4.2 Obtaining the MSI package

If the MSI package is needed for the installation, proceed as follows to extract it from the .exe file:

1. Start the installation from the .exe file and wait until the first dialog opens.

2. Locate the MSI file (often stored with a random name, for example, ed34g.msi) in the Temp folder in %UserProfile%\AppData\Local (C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings on pre-Windows Vista systems).

3. Copy the .msi file to another location.

4. Exit the .exe installation.

5. Install QlikView Server using the .msi file. See Silent Installation (page 93) for information on how to perform a silent installation. For additional information, see Deploying MSI Packages with Group Policies (page 127).