| Help creating a silent install for the Eclipse installer [message #1815835] |
Fri, 11 October 2019 14:25  |
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Hello,
I'm currently trying to figure out how to deploy Eclipse via Landesk for use in my labs, but cannot find any documentation anywhere on the internet as to what parameters I'll need in order to complete this.
Now I did find the site where I can download the entire package of each installer; i.e. java, C#, and what not. From here I just really just need help with parameters for silent install, how to accept all agreements/licenses, and how to set location.
Thank you!
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| Re: Help creating a silent install for the Eclipse installer [message #1815839 is a reply to message #1815835] |
Sat, 12 October 2019 01:07  |
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Questions about the Eclipse Installer are best directed to the Oomph forum:
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=287
Of course I answer the questions there too and since I see your question here, I'll answer here...
The main source of documentation is the wiki with the following as the central index for Oomph's technologies:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Oomph
Others have asked for a headless mode as well:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=487626
On the path towards implementing that, support for Configurations was implemented quite a while ago:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Authoring#Automation_and_Specialization_with_Configurations
But this is currently used to automate the flow through the wizard, i.e., to select a Product Version and to select one or more Project Streams, as well as to specify specific values for variables or even add other Setup tasks.
Full support for a headless mode could be driven from that as a basis. The installer application already processes command line arguments automatically, i.e., it will process the URI of a Configuration specified on the command line, but as of yet, there is no support to avoid bringing up a dialog to complete an installation process headlessly.
Just the other week, support was added for automatically launching the installer by clicking on a URI in a web browser:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=551315
But this has not yet been documented.
Full support for a headless mode is awaiting someone to sponsor it or to contribute it. It's easy to set up a development environment with all the Oomph source as documented here:
https://ci.eclipse.org/oomph/
My preference would be that someone sponsor a few days of the work need to provide this support. After all, even reviewing contributions, documenting them, supporting them, and then maintaining them long term is also a significant time investment, and time is money...
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