Creating a Silent Installer like Google Chrome

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Hi,

Hope every body is familier with Google Chrome offline Installer. One have to just double click it, and after some time it will be installed without pop up. I want to create a installer same like it. But have no clue what technology used here (C++?)

Any body have any Idea how they implemented this. No code but just any clue

Thanks

Posted 16-Feb-13 19:02pm

iDebD

Updated 16-Feb-13 19:04pm

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iDebD 17-Feb-13 1:09am

SFX cann't be used. Google Chrome installer is not SFX package

max_nowak 18-Feb-13 4:21am

Thumbs up for NSIS. I just recently was in need to create an installer and nsis perfectly served my needs (an installer for my build artifacts).

The google project for their installer is called google omaha by the way. I had a short peek in it and it seems there has to be a lot of customization done and generally the documentation is not pretty verbose. Here's the link if you're interested: http://code.google.com/p/omaha/

iDebD 18-Feb-13 4:23am

Thanks a lot ...It is actual ans I think :)

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iDebD 3-Apr-13 8:34am

Ignoring your comment...as usual :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Apr-13 12:56pm

No, apparently you did not ignore it. Do you want me to report your for abuse? Or you are going to fix it by yourself?
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Solution 1

All installers have a silent mode of operation:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1358626/msiexec-silent-mode-installation[^]

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Is_silent_by_command_line[^]
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Examples/silent.nsi[^]
You can check your installers silent mode if you search...

Posted 16-Feb-13 20:27pm

Mehdi Gholam

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iDebD · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-03T02:37:00

Solution 3

http://code.google.com/p/omaha/[^]

Google uses this one...

Posted 3-Apr-13 2:37am

iDebD