How to silently deploy v8.4.x

[Frédéric Gagné]

Is there a way to silently deploy the version 8.4.x?

It was previously working with the /S command but it’s doesn’t look to be working anymore :(

Thanks!

[PeterJones]

@Frédéric-Gagné ,

I just downloaded the installer npp.8.4.6.Installer.x64.exe from the official downloads page , and put it onto a fresh Win10 virtual machine that had no previous Notepad++ installation.

Running npp.8.4.6.Installer.x64.exe /S correctly installed Notepad++ in C:\Program Files\Notepad++ without any user prompts. If I uninstalled that one, and ran npp.8.4.6.Installer.x64.exe /S /D=C:\NotepadPlusPlus , it correctly installed it into C:\NotepadPlusPlus\ without any prompts.

But it does do the UAC prompts… and sometimes UAC prompts get hidden in the background – when using the uninstaller between the two, I had to click on the UAC icon on the toolbar to get it to bring the UAC prompt to the front so I could tell it that it was okay to uninstall. maybe there’s a buried UAC prompt waiting for your input.

Otherwise, all I can say is “it works for me.”

[Frédéric Gagné]

@PeterJones said in How to silently deploy v8.4.x:

npp.8.4.6.Installer.x64.exe /S /D=C:\NotepadPlusPlus

Thanks for your answer!

I dont know why but only the /s will pop-up the language selection window…

But npp.8.4.6.Installer.x64.exe /S /D=C:\NotepadPlusPlus did work perfectly!

So I will therefore just use the /s /d and go with it!

[Alan Kilborn]

@Frédéric-Gagné said in How to silently deploy v8.4.x:

/s

/S

Are you saying the case of the s matters, that is, has different effect if lowercase s is used versus uppercase S ?

[PeterJones]

@Alan-Kilborn said in How to silently deploy v8.4.x:

Are you saying the case of the s matters, that is, has different effect if lowercase s is used versus uppercase S ?

That surprised me to no end, but i just tried in the virutal machine: /s prompted for language/etc, whereas /S did not. (Similarly, /S /d=C:\OtherDirectory\ installed into the normal Program Files location, whereas /S /D=C:\OtherDirectory\ properly installed into C:\Other Directory)

I will add a note in the User Manual that the options are case sensitive

@Frédéric-Gagné should note that the /D=C:\NotepladPlusPlus was not required to get it to work. It was solely the difference between npp.8.4.6.Installer.x64.exe /s not being silent-install and npp.8.4.6.Installer.x64.exe /S working as a silent-install.

[Alan Kilborn]

@PeterJones

If I’m reading it correctly, / options to the installer are case sensitive in such a way that only the uppercase variants do something; it appears from your examples that the lowercase versions do nothing.

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@PeterJones
@Alan-Kilborn

https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Which_command_line_parameters_can_be_used_to_configure_installers%3F

So there is a “glue code in .onInit” possibility to overcome this sensitivity. But this needs a PR.