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ElektroStudios
ElektroStudios

Reputation: 20474

How to exclude component installation in an MSI?

SCENARIO

I've downloaded this application: http://www.babelsoft.net/bin/MediaPreviewSetup-1.4.3.429.sfx.exe

The setup is an SFX-Rar that contains an MSI installer, and I would like to write an script to install the MSI silentlly.

PROBLEM

The installer comes with 3 components

Shell Extension for Video
Shell Extension for Audio
Shell Extension for Image

Plus these two components:

configuration Tool
DesktopShortcut

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But I only want to install the shell extension for Video together with the configuration Tool.

So I've checked the MSI table to see the component names with the MSI Explorer tool

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But when I try to run the installer it throws an error code 2711

MediaPreviewSetup-64-1.4.3.429.msi ADDLOCAL=ProductComponent64,ToolComponent

QUESTION

What I'm doing wrong?

What are the right MSI parametters that I should use when to install only the desired components?

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1386

Answers (1)

Christopher Painter
Christopher Painter

Reputation: 55601

Error 2711 is because the ADDLOCAL property expects a list of feature names not component names. You'll need to create a transform and apply it with TRANSFORMS=foo.mst to exclude just a component from the installation.

Upvotes: 1

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