Installing UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer from the command line
You can install UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer from the command line. This is useful for system administrators who want to set up a “silent install” process that does not require the user to enter information in the install screens.
To install from the command line
1 The Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Packages are automatically installed when you perform a normal UNICOM Intelligence Desktop installation. If the Redistributable Packages are not already installed on your computer, you must install them before installing UNICOM Intelligence Desktop from the command line. If you do not install the Redistributable Packages, the UNICOM Intelligence Desktop applications will not work.
Download the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package from:
▪For UNICOM Intelligence 7.5.1 and later, install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019.
Use the appropriate Vcredist command (Vcredist_x64.exe or Vcredist_x86.exe) to push the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package installation, for example:
Vcredist_x64.exe /q:a /c:"VCREDI~3.EXE /q:a /c:""msiexec /i vcredist.msi /qn"" "
2 Open a command prompt, and then change to the folder that contains the setup.exe file.
3 Enter a command in the following format:
[start /WAIT] setup.exe /s /v" /qn [/l*v \"mylogfile\"] [INSTALLDIR=\"my_path\"] "
Options
start /WAIT
Optional. Waits until the command is finished before returning to the command prompt. Although this is optional it is useful in a silent install, as otherwise the log needs to be continually examined to find out when the install has completed.
/s
Required. Tells setup.exe to be silent.
/v
Required. Tells setup.exe to pass the following parameters (that is, everything between the following quotation mark and the final quotation mark at the end of the command) to the MSI installer.
/qn
Required. Tells the MSI installer to run in Quiet mode, that is, not to provide any user interface.
/l*v \"mylogfile\"
Optional. Tells the MSI installer to log in Verbose mode to the file mylogfile.
INSTALLDIR=\"my_path\"
Optional. Defines the folder where you want to install UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer. Not necessary if you want to install into the default folder, which is [INSTALL_FOLDER]\IBM\SPSS\DataCollection\7\.
Examples
This example installs UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer into the default folder without logging the install:
setup.exe /s /v" /qn "
This example installs UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer into the default folder and logs the installation messages to a file called C:\log.txt:
setup.exe /s /v" /qn /l*v \"C:\log.txt\" "
This example installs UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer into the specified folder and logs the installation messages to a file called C:\log.txt:
setup.exe /s /v" /qn /l*v \"C:\log.txt\" INSTALLDIR=\"C:\MyInstallFolder\" "
This example does the same as the previous example, but waits for the install to complete before returning to the command prompt:
start /WAIT setup.exe /s /v" /qn /l*v \"C:\log.txt\" INSTALLDIR=\"C:\MyInstallFolder\" "
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