Silent installs run without user input and with no indication to the user that an install is occurring. On Windows operating systems, you can call the SQL Anywhere installer from your own install program in such a way that the SQL Anywhere install is silent.

The options for the SQL Anywhere install program setup.exe are:

The following command line example assumes that the install image directory is in the software\SQLAnywhere directory on the disk in drive d:.

d:\software\sqlanywhere\setup.exe /l:1033 /s "/v:/qn 
    REGKEY=PEPEV-E96QE-A4000-00000-00000 INSTALLDIR=c:\sa11 DIR_SAMPLES=c:\sa11\Samples"

The following options may be specified on the command line.

The following example includes all the options:

d:\software\sqlanywhere\setup.exe /l:1033 /s "/v:/qn 
    REGKEY=PEPEV-E96QE-A4000-00000-00000 
    INSTALLDIR=c:\sa11 
    DIR_SAMPLES=c:\sa11\Samples
    USERNAME=\"John Smith\"
    COMPANYNAME=\"Smith Holdings\""

Although the above text is shown over several lines for reasons of length, it would be specified as a single line of text. Note the use of the backslash character to escape the interior quotation marks.

You can also install the documentation using a silent install. The setup.exe for this is in d:\software\Documentation. An example of a command line that installs the documentation is:

d:\software\documentation\setup.exe /l:1033 /s "/v:/qn"

To generate an MSI log add the following to the command line after the /v:.

/l*v! logfile

In the above example, logfile is the full path and file name of the log file. The path must already exist. Note that this switch will generate an extremely verbose log and will significantly lengthen the time required to execute the install. See the MSI documentation for details on how to reduce the output to the log file ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367988.aspx).

In addition to a silent install, it is also possible to perform a silent uninstall. The following is an example of a command line that would do this.

msiexec.exe /qn /uninstall {ECE263B0-6C8B-404C-B4AC-8FAB1C87AB4A}

In the above example, you call the Microsoft Windows Installer tool directly.

The product codes for SQL Anywhere are:

The silent install described above does not address how you would select a subset of the components to install. This topic is better addressed by the Deployment Wizard. For information on component selection, see Using the Deployment Wizard.