Hi, I maintain the Chocolatey package for NVDA and yes, the silent installer is not totally silent. Have you considered opening an NVDA issue for this to come up with some kind of extra silent option? Bram On 4-10-2018 16:29, Eigeldinger Simon wrote:
Hi all,
I promised to show you how I made the NVDA Updater i use here to get our chaotic NVDA installations in order. Should work. I tried that on a small scale at the moment.
Prerequisites
You need: * NVDA installer from the NV Access website. * NSIS installer from https://sf.net/projects/nsis/ * then you need psexec from the sysinternals tools from Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
The following scripts are well commented out and so that shouldn't be a problem for someone who has a little bit a knowledge of some batch commands and some general commands and NSIS files. Please edit them that they fit your directory structure.
The files
makeupdate.bat: this file creates the silent installer out of the not so silent nvda installer.
--- Begin ---
@echo off
rem clearing the screen
cls
rem deleting old temporary dirs and files
rmdir /q /s nvda del nvdainstaller.exe
rem installing a portable copy to a temp dir
"%cd%\nvda_.exe" --create-portable-silent --portable-path "%cd%\nvda"
rem because nvda silent portable isn't all that silent we need to restart the local installed copy
"C:\Program Files (x86)\NVDA\nvda_slave.exe" launchNVDA -r
rem now delete the old uninstaller because its not needed and its useless.
cd nvda del uninstall.exe cd ..
rem generating the realy silent installer
"c:\nsis\makensis.exe" "%cd%\nvdainstaller.nsi"
rem deleting old temporary dirs and files
rmdir /q /s nvda
--- End ---
nvdainstaller.nsi: the NSIS script for the really silent installer. Also needs updating to your needs and company names and versions.
--- Begin ---
;Include Modern UI !include "MUI2.nsh"
;Name and file Name "NVDA Stadt Hohenems 2018.3.2" OutFile "nvdainstaller.exe"
;Default installation folder InstallDir "c:\nvda"
;request admin privileges RequestExecutionLevel admin
;Version Information
VIProductVersion "2018.3.2.0" VIAddVersionKey "ProductName" "NVDA Stadt Hohenems" VIAddVersionKey "Comments" "NVDA Stadt Hohenems" VIAddVersionKey "CompanyName" "NVAccess and Stadt Hohenems" VIAddVersionKey "FileDescription" "NVDA Stadt Hohenems" VIAddVersionKey "FileVersion" "2018.3.2.0"
;Installer Sections
Section Install
; Output path SetOutPath "$INSTDIR"
;Files File /r "c:\daten\nvdaupdate\nvda\*"
; Shortcuts CreateShortcut "c:\users\public\desktop\NVDA.lnk" "c:\nvda\nvda_slave.exe" "launchNVDA -r -c \\emsapp101\NVDA"
;Create uninstaller WriteUninstaller "$INSTDIR\Uninstall.exe"
;Write the uninstall keys for Windows WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\NVDAEms" "DisplayName" "NVDA Stadt Hohenems 2018.3.2" WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\NVDAEms" "UninstallString" '"$INSTDIR\Uninstall.exe /S"' WriteRegDWORD HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\NVDAEms" "NoModify" 1 WriteRegDWORD HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\NVDAEms" "NoRepair" 1
SectionEnd
;Uninstaller Section
Section "Uninstall"
Delete "$INSTDIR\Uninstall.exe" Delete "c:\users\public\desktop\NVDA.lnk" RMDir /r "$INSTDIR"
; Remove registry keys DeleteRegKey HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\NVDAEms"
SectionEnd
;Pages !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_INSTFILES
!insertmacro MUI_UNPAGE_INSTFILES
;Languages !insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English"
--- End ---
So. Now we have the installer. Then we copy that stuff on a share where people have access to. we have a software distribution share. We copy nvdainstaller.exe and installnvda.bat there.
installnvda.bat: this script installs nvda on the computer and uninstalls the old one:
--- Begin ---
@echo off
rem clearing the screen
cls
rem uninstalling old nvda installed normally and previous installations
"C:\Program Files (x86)\NVDA\uninstall.exe" /S c:\nvda\uninstall.exe /S
rem let's delete the manually created desktop icon
del c:\users\public\desktop\nvda.lnk
rem copy the nvda installer to a temp directory.
xcopy /y \\emsfi101\softwaredistribution$\nvda\nvdainstaller.exe c:\temp\
rem install it silently.
c:\temp\nvdainstaller.exe /S
rem clean up the mess
del c:\temp\nvdainstaller.exe
--- End ---
Now we just need something to launch that silent and remote installation thing from our computer:
updatenvda.bat: the script that launches all that chaos. Willl sit on our admin computer:
--- Begin ---
@echo off
rem clearing the screen
cls
rem installing nvda using psexec on the remote machines. pcs.txt contains the list of machines
psexec -h -u "mydomain\myadminuser" -p mypassword @c:\nvdaupdate\pcs.txt "\\emsfi101\softwaredistribution$\nvda\installnvda.bat"
rem making a pause to view the output
pause
--- End ---
You can also log the output to a file when executing the updatenvda.bat script like that:
updatenvda.bat >> updatenvda.log
Should work.
pcs.txt is the list of pcs on which nvda should be installed:
--- Begin ---
mypc01 mypc02 mypc03 mypc04
--- End ---
Hope you find these scripts useful. Please read those scripts carefully and edit as needed.
Greetings, Simon _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org