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Appendix B: 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.
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 15.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
more information, see https://msdn.-
microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367541
(v=vs.85).aspx.
/v"<msiexec options>" Passes msiexec options to Windows Installer.
For more information, see MSI properties for
Dragon installations. 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. 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
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