Standard windows installer public properties, Installation examples – Lenovo ThinkCentre A51 User Manual
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Standard Windows Installer public properties
The Windows Installer has a set of standard built in public properties that can be set on the command
line to specify certain behavior during the installation. The following table provides most common public
properties used in the command line.
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The following table shows the commonly used Windows Installer properties:
Table 3. Windows Installer properties
Property
Description
TARGETDIR
Specifies the root destination directory for the installation.
During an administrative installation this property is the
location to copy the installation package.
ARPAUTHORIZEDCDFPREFIX
URL of the update channel for the application.
ARPCOMMENTS
Provides Comments for the Add or Remove Programs
on Control Panel.
ARPCONTACT
Provides Contact for the Add or Remove Programs on
Control Panel.
ARPINSTALLLOCATION
Fully qualified path to the application's primary folder.
ARPNOMODIFY
Disables functionality that would modify the product.
ARPNOREMOVE
Disables functionality that would remove the product.
ARPNOREPAIR
Disables the Repair button in the Programs wizard.
ARPPRODUCTICON
Specifies the primary icon for the installation package.
ARPREADME
Provides a ReadMe for the Add or Remove Programs on
Control Panel.
ARPSIZE
Estimated size of the application in kilobytes.
ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT
Prevents display of application in the Add or Remove
Programs list.
ARPURLINFOABOUT
URL for an application's home page.
ARPURLUPDATEINFO
URL for application-update information.
REBOOT
The REBOOT property suppresses certain prompts for
a reboot of the system. An administrator typically uses
this property with a series of installations to install several
products at the same time with only one reboot at the
end. Set REBOOT="R" to disable any reboots at the end
of an install.
Installation examples
The following table provides the installation examples using the setup.exe file.
Chapter 2
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