Anyone got a recipe for VectorWorks 2016 and updates?

[Nick Harvey]

Thanks

[Nick Harvey]

The update installers need to say yes to a couple of dialogs (confirm serial number etc) and I have no clue how to build this - so if there are no existing recipes, how do I start?!

On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 8:01:54 PM UTC, Nick Harvey wrote:

Thanks

[Tim Sutton]

Vectorworks has a "silent" installer mode you can invoke (and I believe there's some documentation online in their knowledge base), but historically it's always refused to run while at the loginwindow, because it still depends on a GUI framework. If you need to install it in that context, your only option may be to manually repackage.

As of I think 2013-2014 versions they also pulled a couple things out of the installer and moved these into "first run" actions that prompt for an admin password, requiring even more steps to parcel out yourself if you _were_ otherwise thinking of trying their silent installer.

There's a Quicklook plugin, and all the content libraries are custom archives that have to be downloaded and "installed" using Vectorworks itself. You may need one or more of these content libraries if your users depend on them. These items used to be part of a single monolithic installer that resulted in a complete installation with no "first run" steps, but as of 2014 they were split out.

I also recommend (constructive) complaining to Nemetschek that deploying their software is extremely time-consuming and error-prone when needing to be done repeatably and at any scale.

Tim

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[Ray Kerce]

We have the same issue.  We always repackage. We complain to the vendor every year.

On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 4:01:54 PM UTC-4, Nick Harvey wrote:

Thanks

[Nick Harvey]

I got on to a senior chap there, and they are being pretty cooperative - fingers crossed

[David Ross]

FYI.

The 2016 (and I think earlier) installers will NOT install a current
Quicklook file under circumstances where a previous install has already
happened. Even if all that exists are settings in the user space but no
application currently installed. So you need to manually install the
QuickLook file. Which implies you first install VW on a virgin system to
get this file as their installer blob doesn't allow you to dig it out.

David