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December 10, 2015
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Silent install for Ghostscript?

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I'm trying to create a silent installer for ghostscript. I have gs863w64.exe. I unzipped it so I now have the setupgs.exe. (I wasn't able to uzip the latest version)

It is supposed to work like this:

setupgs.exe "c:\program files\gs"

I get this error:

Source Directory=c:\ptc\gs

Target Directory=c:\program files\gs

Target Shell Folder=Ghostscript

  All users

Installing Program...

Copying files listed in filelist.txt

Creating temporary file c:\users\windows7\appdata\local\temp\gsa01816

   c:\program files\gs\gs8.63\bin\gsdll32.dll

Failed to copy file c:\ptc\gs\gs8.63\bin\gsdll32.dll to c:\program files\gs\gs8.63\bin\gsdll32.dll

Program install failed

If I run gs863w64.exe and press the install button it installs

Obviously the self extracting installer is doing something that the command line isn't doing.


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Best answer by davehaigh

So after some digging on the web I came up with an alternative solution. AutoIT.

I installed it and the editor. Both can be acquired here:
https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/downloads/

This excellent video shows how to create a self-installer script
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuOq6AOQ_gI

My script looks like this:

12-10-2015 2-42-17 PM.jpg

Even better yet, you can then compile the script to run on client machines without having to install AutoIT on them.

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/intro/compiler.htm


So in your install script you copy the original installer to the client and the new compiled AutoIT script.
Change to the directory containing both files and then just enter the name of your compiled script. And finally delete the files.

Like this:

if not exist "c:\ptc\ghostscript" "(mkdir c:\ptc\ghostscript)"
copy "L:\bin\ghostscript\*.*" "c:\ptc\ghostscript\."
cd "c:\ptc\ghostscript"
install-gs-863-64.exe
cd %USERPROFILE%
rmdir c:\ptc\ghostscript /s /q

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davehaigh13-AquamarineAuthorAnswer
13-Aquamarine
December 10, 2015

So after some digging on the web I came up with an alternative solution. AutoIT.

I installed it and the editor. Both can be acquired here:
https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/downloads/

This excellent video shows how to create a self-installer script
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuOq6AOQ_gI

My script looks like this:

12-10-2015 2-42-17 PM.jpg

Even better yet, you can then compile the script to run on client machines without having to install AutoIT on them.

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/intro/compiler.htm


So in your install script you copy the original installer to the client and the new compiled AutoIT script.
Change to the directory containing both files and then just enter the name of your compiled script. And finally delete the files.

Like this:

if not exist "c:\ptc\ghostscript" "(mkdir c:\ptc\ghostscript)"
copy "L:\bin\ghostscript\*.*" "c:\ptc\ghostscript\."
cd "c:\ptc\ghostscript"
install-gs-863-64.exe
cd %USERPROFILE%
rmdir c:\ptc\ghostscript /s /q

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