Firebird Silent install

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[Sunday, April 17, 2005 11:00 AM]

Found this in firebird-odbc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Chris Laurie and Friedrech Linder, how are you doing with a Install
Builder script for installing Firebird ODBC and Client and also the
Server. So that we can have our customers install it themselves?
Greetings
Johan van Zyl

'Example for For Win98:

copy IscDbc.dll, OdbcJdbc.dll, OdbcJdbcMT.dll, OdbcJdbcSetup.dll
to folder c:\temp

Install
C:\Win98\SYSTEM\RegSvr32.EXE /s /i .\OdbcJdbcSetup.dll
Uninstall
C:\Win98\SYSTEM\RegSvr32.EXE /s /u .\OdbcJdbcSetup.dll
Warning!
Always set full path for RegSvr32.EXE and
always set .\ before OdbcJdbcSetup.dll

PS:
It is safe variant, however there are also other decisions :-)

--
Best regards,
Vladimir Tsvigun"

================
Johan van Zyl
JVZ Systems CC

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[Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:09 PM]

Johan,

Quick question - are we talking about Firebird V2.0 (release date 10th Mar
2005)?

BTW, SB5 Developer Edition has everything built-in to install and configure
ODBC drivers.

Friedrich

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Friedrich Linder
CEO, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
1.954.252.3910

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[Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:20 PM]

BTW, no need to use odbcjdbcsetup.dll because SB5 has built-in ODBC support.

--
Friedrich Linder
CEO, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
1.954.252.3910

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[Sunday, April 17, 2005 6:45 PM]

As far as I know FB 2.00 is still beta, therefore I am talking FB
1.52.
JVZ

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[Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:14 PM]

From Firebird-support
>
> What's the best way to include the installation of Firebird together
> with my application under one install.
>

If you are shipping a windows app you might want to look at the
installation_readme.txt in the /doc directory. It explains how to call
the Firebird installer from another application.


Paul
--
Paul Reeves

installation_readme.txt
Firebird Database Server 1.5.2
==================================================

This document is a guide to installing this package of
Firebird 1.5 on the Win32 platform. These notes refer
to the installation package itself, rather than
Firebird 1.5 in general.

Contents
--------
o Before installation
o Installation on systems with Firebird 2.0
o New features of the installer
o Deprecated Features related to installation
o Uninstallation
o Other Notes
o Installation from a batch file

Before installation
-------------------
It is recommended that you UNINSTALL all previous
versions of Firebird 1.0, Firebird 1.5 or InterBase
before installing this package.

Installation on systems with Firebird 2.0 Unstable
--------------------------------------------------

The Firebird 1.5.2 installation process cannot detect
a running version of Firebird 2.0 Unstable. If you have
been running an early unstable version of Firebird 2.0
it is essential that you stop the server before
attempting to install Firebird 1.5.2.

New features of the installer in Firebird 1.5.2
-----------------------------------------------
Support for several languages has been added to the
installer. This support extends ONLY to the
installation process.

New features of the installer in Firebird 1.5
---------------------------------------------
o This installer now combines the super server and
classic server binaries into a single installation
package. You can choose to install one or the other,
but not both. To switch server type you need to
uninstall and re-install.

o The rules for library installation have changed
considerably. They are explained in detail in
.\docs\README.Win32LibraryInstallation.txt
which will be available to you after installation.

As a result of these new rules the installer
checks for an existing install of Firebird or
InterBase.

- If Firebird 1.5 is already installed
it will attempt to install over it. If
the server is running it will halt the install.

- If another version of Firebird or InterBase is
already installed it will warn the user. If
the user continues the installer will install
Firebird and set up registry entries but it
will not configure Firebird to run, either as
a service or as an application. This must
be done manually.

- The installer has a new commandline option
/force
which allows those with a 'devil may care'
attitude to override the above.


o If an amended firebird.conf exists in the
installation directory it is saved as:
firebird.conf.saved.n
where n is a number. The installer always installs
the default firebird.conf file. This is to guarantee
consistency to the installation process. Otherwise
the installer would have to parse the existing (and
possibly broken) configuration file.


Deprecated Features related to installation
-------------------------------------------

o Firebird 1.0 reserved a new registry key for
Firebird use. It was:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\FirebirdSQL
This is now deprecated and will be deleted by the
installer. If you have applications which rely
on this key you should add it back manually.
However, it is preferable if you rebuild your
application to read the new key.

o Earlier Firebird 1.5 release candidates installed
fbclient.dll in the <system> directory. This
practice is now deprecated. An option to install
it into the <system> directory is available at
install time. However, it is preferable if you
rebuild your applications to conform to the new
usage of fbclient.


Uninstallation
--------------

o It is preferred that this package be uninstalled
correctly using the uninstallation application
supplied. This can be called from the Control Panel.
Alternatively it can be uninstalled by running
unins000.exe directly from the installation
directory.

o If Firebird is running as an application (instead of
as a service) it is recommended that you manually
stop the server before running the uninstaller. This
is because the uninstaller cannot stop a running
application. If a server is running during the
uninstall the uninstall will complete with errors.
You will have to delete the remnants by hand.


Other Notes
-----------

Firebird requires WinSock2. All Win32 platforms
should have this, except for Win95. A test for the
Winsock2 library is made during install. If it is
not found the install will fail. You can visit
this link:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q177719

to find out how to go about upgrading.


Installation from a batch file
------------------------------

The setup program can be run from a batch file. The
following parameters may be passed:


/SP-
Disables the 'This will install... Do you wish to
continue?' prompt at the beginning of Setup.

/SILENT, /VERYSILENT
Instructs Setup to be silent or very silent. When
Setup is silent the wizard and the background window
are not displayed but the installation progress
window is. When a setup is very silent this
installation progress window is not displayed.
Everything else is normal so for example error
messages during installation are displayed and the
startup prompt is (if you haven't disabled it with
the '/SP-' command line option explained above)

If a restart is necessary and the '/NORESTART'
command isn't used (see below) and Setup is silent,
it will display a Reboot now? messagebox. If it's
very silent it will reboot without asking.

/NORESTART
Instructs Setup not to reboot even if it's necessary.

/DIR="x:\dirname"
Overrides the default directory name displayed on
the Select Destination Directory wizard page. A
fully qualified pathname must be specified. If the
[Setup] section directive DisableDirPage was set to
yes, this command line parameter is ignored.

/GROUP="folder name"
Overrides the default folder name displayed on the
Select Start Menu Folder wizard page. If the [Setup]
section directive DisableProgramGroupPage was set to
yes, this command line parameter is ignored.

/NOICONS
Instructs Setup to initially disable the Don't create
any icons check box on the Select Start Menu Folder
wizard page.

/COMPONENTS="comma separated list of component names"

Choose from - SuperServerComponent,
ClassicServerComponent,
ServerComponent,
DevAdminComponent and
ClientComponent

Overrides the default components settings. Using
this command line parameter causes Setup to
automatically select a custom type. A full install
requires combining components. For example:

/COMPONENTS="SuperServerComponent, ServerComponent,
DevAdminComponent, ClientComponent"

would be required for a full install.


/FORCE

Tells the installer to ignore its analysis of the
existing environment. It will attempt to install
and configure Firebird 1.5 as if no previous
version of Firebird or InterBase was installed.

This can be useful if you have a seriously broken
installation that you cannot uninstall. Or it
could be another way to aggravate your users by
breaking a perfectly good working install of
InterBase. Its your choice.


/NOCPL

Don't install the Control Panel Applet. This is
useful for two reasons:

o Installing/Uninstalling the CPL applet will
often require a system restart.

o You may wish to use an alternative cpl applet.


/NOGDS32

Don't install a copy of the client library into
the system directory, even if installation
analysis concludes it is OK to do so.


/COPYFBCLIENT

Copy the fbclient.dll to the system directory. This
is recommended for client installs if you are sure
that you will only ever be accessing a single
server version. If your client applications are
likely to take advantage of accessing different
server versions this is not recommended. See

doc/README.Win32LibraryInstallation.txt

for more information.






>Found this in firebird-odbc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>
>Chris Laurie and Friedrech Linder, how are you doing with a Install
>Builder script for installing Firebird ODBC and Client and also the
>Server. So that we can have our customers install it themselves?
>Greetings
>Johan van Zyl
>
>'Example for For Win98:
>
>copy IscDbc.dll, OdbcJdbc.dll, OdbcJdbcMT.dll, OdbcJdbcSetup.dll
>to folder c:\temp
>
>Install
>C:\Win98\SYSTEM\RegSvr32.EXE /s /i .\OdbcJdbcSetup.dll
>Uninstall
>C:\Win98\SYSTEM\RegSvr32.EXE /s /u .\OdbcJdbcSetup.dll
>Warning!
>Always set full path for RegSvr32.EXE and
>always set .\ before OdbcJdbcSetup.dll
>
>PS:
> It is safe variant, however there are also other decisions :-)

================
Johan van Zyl
JVZ Systems CC