User`s guide

IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes

Perform the following steps to run a silent installation.

Notes silent installation on Windows

You can specify command line options during silent Notes install on Windows.

1. Open a command window.

2. Change to the directory in which the IBM Lotus Notes install kit's setup.exe is resident.

3. Type the silent installation command.

Example commands are provided below.

Note that these examples do not illustrate use of a transform file.

• Use this format to run the install in silent mode, using default values, without a progress bar:

setup.exe /s /v"/qn"

Note: For example, this command installs Notes to the single user default C:\Program

Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes directory and Notes data folders and files to the C:\Program

Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\data directory.

When installation is complete, the shortcut icon(s) appears on the desktop.

• Use this format to display a message when the installation is complete or it has failed. Use the +

parameter as follows:

setup.exe /s /v"/qn+"

• Use this format to display a progress bar during the installation, in addition to displaying the

message indicating that the installation is complete or it has failed:

setup.exe /s /v"/qb+"

• Use this format to specify named install manifest features to install using the command line. Obtain

the "installfeature" ID syntax from the Notes install manifest (install.xml). To install any of these

features, include the feature ID value in the “SELECTINSTALLFEATURES” property on the command

line a shown below. Specify comma-separated features names in quotes as follows. Note the

placement of the quote, equals sign, and space characters.

setup /s /v"SELECTINSTALLFEATURES=Activities,Sametime,Editors,CAE /qn"

Note: The Sametime feature will be installed; it is not optional. All features in the supplied install

manifest whose "required' attribute is set to "true" will be installed.

To pass a parameter that contains intervening spaces, such as a directory path, quote the parameter

using a backslash quote sequence as follows:

setup /s /V"SELECTINSTALLFEATURES=Activities,Editors PROGDIR=\"C:\Program

Files\Lotus\Notes\" DATADIR=\"C:\Program Files\Lotus\Notes\Data\" /qn"

Notes silent installation on Linux

You can specify these command line options when running a Lotus Notes silent install on Linux.

1. Open a command window or shell.

2. Change to the directory in which the Lotus Notes install kit's setup.bin is resident.

3. Type the silent installation command.

Example syntax and an example command are provided below.

- silent

This specifies that the command will run in silent mode.

-V licenseAccepted="true|false"

This sets the variable to accept the license agreement panel.