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Appendix A: Options for MSI Installations
Extracting MSI/MST Files from the Dragon setup.exe
Some minor releases of Dragon do not include an MSI file. Instead, the file is part of the setup.exe file. You can run
silent installations from the command line with msiexec.exe or setup.exe – you don’t need to extract the .msi
and .mst files. Use the following information if you are comfortable using .msi installers.
Note:
When you are using the setup.exe method, you must ensure that all flags and properties are within the
same set of quotes, directly after /v, without a space.
Using .MST files, you can tailor the MSI installation without changing the setup.exe file that Nuance provides.
The following sample command line extracts the Dragon 14.msi file and the .mst files used for installing Dragon:
setup.exe /a /s /v"EXTRACTFILES=c:\temp\MSIfiles /qn"
Use the options below to extract .msi/.mst files from setup.exe. These options do not install any files, but rather
extract an installable set of files into the server directory you specify. You can then use the extracted .MSI and .MST
files in a command line to install Dragon.
Option Description
/a
An administrative installation installs a source image of the
application onto the network. For details, see https://msdn.-
microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367541(v=vs.85).aspx.
/v"<msiexec options>"
Passes msiexec options to Windows Installer. See “MSI
options for Dragon installations” on page 118 for details. This
option is required when extracting the .msi files.
EXTRACTFILES=C:\<fullpath>\
Indicates the directory where the extracted .msi/.mst files
are to be written. Enclose long path names containing spaces
in quotation marks. Be sure to escape the each quotation mark
with a backslash: \" . This property is required to extract the
.msi files. If the directory you specify does not exist, the
installer creates it.
Here is a sample command line to extract .msi files from a
single executable:
setup.exe /a /s /v"EXTRACTFILES-
S=c:\temp\msifiles"
/l<Windows Language Code>
Creates an MST file for the language specified (for example,
1031.mst). The language codes supported for installing
Dragon are:
1031=German
1033=English
1034=Spanish
1036=French
1040=Italian
1043=Dutch
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