Silent Installer for Chrome

[Tejas Shah]

Hi,

Do we have anyway to install and uninstall chrome silently ? I tried to use mini_installer.exe from here , but it seems like in the end it pops up first use dialog. Instead of handling that dialog through test automation, I want to see if I can find a flag or someway to suppress all the dialog and first auto launch of chrome.

I tried /silent flag with mini_installer.exe but it still pops first use dialog. Is there any option like "no first use dialog" ?

Any pointers to help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Tejas

[Eric Roman]

You can suppress the first-run dialog by creating a file named "First Run", in the same directory that contains chrome.exe.

(Or in case you have a system-wide install, you put it in the user data dir.)

I don't think there is an option in the installer for this.

See: src/chrome/browser/first_run.cc for more details.

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[Glenn Wilson]

From the right address this time...

Also, on Windows, you can create a file named "master_preferences", (no file extension) right next to chrome.exe and add this as the contents:

{

  "distribution" : {

    "skip_first_run_ui" : true

  }

}

[Mark Larson (Google)]

You can supply the path to a master preferences file at install time: --installerdata="<your path here>" . I haven't tested that.

See src/chrome/installer/util/master_preferences.h for a good example of a master preferences file.

[Scott Violet]

--no-first-run ?

-Scott

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Tejas Shah <teja...@chromium.org> wrote:

[Tejas Shah]

Thanks everyone for the response...I tried several flags: '--silent', '/silent', '--no-first-run', 'skip_first_run_ui' etc.. None of them works while installing chrome using mini_installer.exe...I was always getting first launch of chrome related dialogs.

Finally, after speaking to Omaha Test team, I was able to learn that if you pass flag '--do-not-launch-chrome' to mini_installer.exe, it doesn't launch chrome and installation happens silently. After that, one can start chrome with '--no-first-run' and it works like a charm without any dialogs..

I am still looking for some similar flag for uninstall. Currently, uninstall comes with  user dara dir delete confirmation dialog. I want to suppress that. Any ideas for silent uninstall flag ?

Thanks,

Tejas

[Robert Shield]

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Tejas Shah <teja...@chromium.org> wrote:

Thanks everyone for the response...I tried several flags: '--silent', '/silent', '--no-first-run', 'skip_first_run_ui' etc.. None of them works while installing chrome using mini_installer.exe...I was always getting first launch of chrome related dialogs.

Finally, after speaking to Omaha Test team, I was able to learn that if you pass flag '--do-not-launch-chrome' to mini_installer.exe, it doesn't launch chrome and installation happens silently. After that, one can start chrome with '--no-first-run' and it works like a charm without any dialogs..

Note that in addition to --do-not-launch-chrome, you may want to use --do-not-register-for-update-launch. This second one also suppresses Omaha's launching of Chrome after a successful install (only relevant if you're installing with Omaha).

 

I am still looking for some similar flag for uninstall. Currently, uninstall comes with  user dara dir delete confirmation dialog. I want to suppress that. Any ideas for silent uninstall flag ?

Using 

--uninstall --force-uninstall 

ought to do what you want.

[Tejas Shah]

Thanks Robert.. '--force-uninstall ' flag worked..It seems like currently chrome is installed only for current user and after uninstall it leaves behind data dir. Is there a flag to delete data dir at uninstall silently..

How about install chrome for every user on the system instead of just the current/active user?

Thanks,

Tejas

[Robert Shield]

ugh, and now from the correct account for posterity...

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Tejas Shah <teja...@chromium.org> wrote:

Thanks Robert.. '--force-uninstall ' flag worked..It seems like currently chrome is installed only for current user and after uninstall it leaves behind data dir. Is there a flag to delete data dir at uninstall silently..

yep:

--delete-profile

 

How about install chrome for every user on the system instead of just the current/active user?

--system-level