

“c:\install\logs\audacity-win-2.1.3.log “ – The path for the log. MERGETASKS=”!desktopicon” – Do not create desktop icon. SP- – Disables the This will install… Do you wish to continue? Prompt at the start of Setup.

SUPPRESSMSGBOXES – Create log for installation. Note! Change the “Audacity-win-2.1.3.exe ” with your Audacity offline installer name.Īudacity-win-2.1.3.exe – Name of the exe file. Start /wait audacity-win-2.1.3.exe /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /SP- /MERGETASKS="!desktopicon" /L*v "c:\install\logs\audacity-win-2.1.3.log" If not exist C:\install\logs\ md C:\install\logs\

REM Run uninstall string with /VERYSILENT parameter REM If the previous version was 1.3.x, uninstall 1.3 before installing the current 2.x version. REM Versions older than 1.3.x will require separate removal. REM REM need to check for previous versions in HKLM\Software\. (I created an uninstaller script using the KACE Un-installer Wizard that removed ONLY a particular version of the program using the entries found in the registry uninstall string with the /VERYSILENT parameter). IMPORTANT NOTE FOR UPGRADES: Versions older than 1.3.x will require separate removal. The only "difficulty" was when this became an upgrade.

I zipped the batch file and the two installation executables to upload to the software as inventoried and used the "configure manually" distribution option to simply "audacity.bat" (no quotes), deleting downloaded files. With tips taken from and basic command line, I created a batch file that installs both version 2.0.5 AND LAME mp3 encoding library since this was an upgrade to a version earlier than 1.3.6.
