Silent install/uninstall in 0.9.X?

[slasht]

Hello,
I have been deploying updates to VLC using psexec and the /S (silent) option. It seems that since updating to 0.9.2, it is now necessary to uninstall the program prior to updating.
I have been unsuccessful using the /S option, and the uninstall does not seem to run silently either. I am not using a 3rd party packager. I could not find any usable advice on the forums and the information at AppDeploy is also out-of-date.
Could someone please offer some advice for remotely and silently updating a large install-base of VLC 0.9.X?
Thanks,
Jamie

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I don't know if you can do that...

I never tried to silently uninstall VLC. I'll have a look.

[Groumphy]

Hi,

I tried to uninstall with args "/s" but without result.
The problem does not come from the uninstaller but well from Windows (in my case!): Long names of MS-DOS are not included.

So I used the short name: C: \ PROGRA~1 in place of the variable %programfiles% and thats ok. Here is the complete code.

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REM MS-DOS REM X. BRUSSELAERS START /WAIT C:\PROGRA~1\VIDEOLAN\VLC\UNINSTALL.EXE /NCRC /S DEL C:\PROGRA~1\VIDEOLAN\VLC

The DEL option is for the "sdk" who's not uninstalled ...

If I post two year later, this is because there was no solution since and seen that I need, I am sharing.

Have a nice day,

Groumphy