Silent installation of avogadro on windows (windows 7)

I would like to make Avogadro available to students at Cardiff University
on our managed network computers. In order to do this, I need to develop a
silent installation. I am happy to accept all default settings, but not
placing icons on the users desktop. How would I go about this?

Thanks,

Niek

I would like to make Avogadro available to students at Cardiff University on our managed network computers. In order to do this, I need to develop a silent installation. I am happy to accept all default settings, but not placing icons on the users desktop. How would I go about this?

I’m not very knowledgable about Windows installers. What I can say, is that the Avogadro install is completely self-contained in its own directory (default: c:\Program Files\Avogadro). So you should be able to plop that directory into place via whatever mechanism you want.

This won’t adjust the registry for extensions like .cml, but IMHO that’s a more minor concern.

Hope that helps,
-Geoff

Dear Geoff,

Yes, knowing that the program is fully self-contained was all I needed to
know. Copying a previously installed version across onto a similar systems
essentially installs Avogadro.

Thanks!

Niek

On 25 October 2012 18:02, Geoffrey Hutchison geoff.hutchison@gmail.comwrote:

I would like to make Avogadro available to students at Cardiff
University on our managed network computers. In order to do this, I need to
develop a silent installation. I am happy to accept all default settings,
but not placing icons on the users desktop. How would I go about this?

I’m not very knowledgable about Windows installers. What I can say, is
that the Avogadro install is completely self-contained in its own directory
(default: c:\Program Files\Avogadro). So you should be able to plop that
directory into place via whatever mechanism you want.

This won’t adjust the registry for extensions like .cml, but IMHO that’s a
more minor concern.

Hope that helps,
-Geoff


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