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Michael S.
Michael S.

Reputation: 701

Silently installing Java 8 using Powershell

I was reading about installing the Java using MSI. I find this rather complicated. What is wrong about using the .exe and install silently like this?

Start-Process -FilePath jre-8u25-windows-x64.exe -ArgumentList "/s" -PassThru -Wait

It works in my case. Any doubts, helpful hints about this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 10024

Answers (1)

SzB
SzB

Reputation: 1037

calling this from dos-window:

jre-8u25-windows-x64.exe /s INSTALLDIR=c:\progra~1\jre /L install64.log

will not work (progra~1 is substitution for 'program files'). It terminates immediately without any message. Calling the same thru powershell works fine:

powershell start-process -filepath jre-8u25-windows-x64.exe -passthru -wait -argumentlist "/s,INSTALLDIR=c:\progra~1\jre,/L,install64.log"

Does anyone know what makes difference?

Upvotes: 1

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