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Dragon Administrator Guide version 11
Installation using the Dragon
command line
When you install Dragon 11 , Dragon installs using the primary language for the product. You can-
not install Dragon using a language that is different than the primary language. For example, when
you install Dragon 11 , Professional - English version, Dragon installs using the English language.
If you attempt to use the /l option with setup.exe to install Dragon 11 using a non-primary lan-
guage, the installation process uses the primary language for that edition of Dragon and ignores the
/l option.
Perform the following steps to use the Dragon command line:
1. Open a command line window (Start > Run and enter cmd).
2. Insert the product DVD in the DVD drive, search the DVD for the path where the Dragon
setup.exe is located, and switch directories to the path on the product DVD where the Dragon
setup.exe is located.
3. Enter the following command line to install Dragon on this initial computer (ignore any errors
you receive regarding the serial number, as it is not required for this in initial installation, unless
you plan to dictate later):
setup.exe /s /v"INSTALLDIR=c:\Dragon11 /L*v C:\Logs\logfile.log /qn"
The /s option sets the silent option for the every .exe that setup.exe provides a wrapper for,
including the vcruntime.exe service that setup.exe automatically installs for you, so that no GUI
pops up. By contrast the /qn inside the quotation marks after /v sets the silent option for the
Dragon installation.
The /v option introduces any series of msiexec.exe options you want to pass to the Windows
installer, all enclosed in quotation marks after the /v, with no space allowed between the /v and
the opening quotation mark. Among the options inside the quotation marks are:
n INSTALLDIR — Indicates the full path to where you want Dragon installed
n /L*v — (either upper or lowercase) Indicates the log file where messages about the installation
should be written
n /qn — (Quiet mode—also called Silent mode—no GUI) Turns off the Dragon GUI
Caution: The first time you test any installation, you should not run it in Silent mode, because if
you have neglected to provide information about a setting that does not have a default, you
receive a GUI prompt for that information. You should initially pass the /L*v option because it
runs the entire installation GUI. When the Welcome dialog appears, you can stop and look into
the log file., where you can search for Command line to verify that all command line parameters
are being incorporated. The line you find will have this format:
MSI (c) (##:##)[##:##:##:###] Command Line: <OPTION>=<value>
<OPTION>=<value> ...
The above command line is to install the primary language of the Dragon product.
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