arguments for prerequisite installer

[mhubel]

We are trying to install LibreOffice as a prerequisite. If only a URL is specified, it works. If in addition I try to specify the command line such as:

msiexec /i LibreOffice_25.2.7.2_Win_x86-64.msi

on the Command line (Full UI) line, the msiexec installer just shows it's allowed call arguments and does nothing, The desire it to do this with an argument:

msiexec /i LibreOffice_25.2.7.2_Win_x86-64.msi ISCHECKFORPRODUCTUPDATES=0

It seems that the msiexec wants an absolute path. If that is the problem, is there a way to give it the absolute path where the file was downloaded to?

[Catalin]

Hello,

If you add the MSI for LibreOffice in the "Prerequisites" page, then you do not need to pass the command line msiexec /i to that, because we do that automatically.

Instead, you only need to pass the extra arguments. So if the entire command line looks like this:

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msiexec /i <path_to_msi> some_extra_arguments_here

in the command line field you only need to pass this:

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some_extra_arguments_here

In your specific case, you only need to pass this:

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ISCHECKFORPRODUCTUPDATES=0

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Catalin

[mhubel]

Thanks for the suggestion. That did allow the install to complete but it only seemed to work with one argument. When I tried two, it still failed. So that was the good news. Then the LibreOffice does not seem to reliably honor the argument anyway so all this is a bit academic at the moment.

[Catalin]

Hello,

You are always welcome!

Glad to hear it worked.

Regarding the second parameter, that should also work, as the installer can receive more than one parameters - make sure you have passed them correctly.

For example if the parameters you are passing are like this:

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param1 param2

try to also run the prerequisite manually from the command line using the same parameters, e.g.:

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msiexec /i <path_to_installer> param1 param2

Best regards,
Catalin