Installer cannot run silent/automated

[cbielow]

The installer will show messageboxes (mostly for Proteowizward's .Net depedencies), which currently prevent a silent install.
We would need to add an /SD switch to each MB with a default answer (see http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#silent)

Alternatively, the install mode '2' currently excludes ThirdParty installation, i.e. would also be silent out of the box. But we do not specify installation types, see http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Reference/SectionIn, (nor do I know how they can be specified from a commandline).

[jpfeuffer]

We currently have this problem also for the installation of OpenMS for our Usertutorials. Maybe I can have a look at this.
Do you have any updates?

[cbielow]

after browsing the NSIS docs a little, this should be possible via
SetSectionFlags
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#sectionsetflags

[cbielow]

If it is 'silent' or 'silentlog', all sections that have the SF_SELECTED(==1) flag are installed quietly (you can set this flag using SectionSetFlags), and IfSilent (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#ifsilent)

along the lines of (untested)

Section test test_section_id
SectionEnd

Function .onInit
  IfSilent 0 notSilentMark
  # set section 'test' as selected (bit 1 = on)
  SectionSetFlags ${test_section_id} 1
  SectionSetFlags ${anothersection_id} 1
  ...

notSilentMark:
   ... (go on with normal stuff)
FunctionEnd

[jpfeuffer]

Ok I am working on it.
Two problems:

• Which targets should we install by default when using silent mode? Maybe we can add an NSIS command line option for the configuration type (Full, Recommended, Minimal)?
• It seems like an installer can not be fully silent when it uses UAC for elevation of rights. Can we fallback to a user-only installation when you do not have admin rights (e.g. install to local users folder and use HKCU registry)?