Guidelines and Advantages of a Silent Installation
A Creo Schematics installation that was installed for the first time using the PTC Creo Installation Assistant can be reinstalled during subsequent installation sessions in silent (nongraphics and noninteractive) mode. The silent installation process with command-line arguments uses an XML file with application-specific configuration settings. An independent XML file is stored for each of the Creo applications that you have installed. To perform a silent installation, provide the path to the corresponding XML file as an argument when running setup.exe from the root directory of the installation media at the command prompt. See
Command Syntax for a Silent Installation for more information.
Remember the following points for a silent installation:
• You cannot use the independent XML file of an earlier release or a maintenance release for a silent installation in the following cases:
◦ The major release to be installed and the release of the application for generating the XML file are not the same.
◦ The Creo Schematics application, language, platform, or package is not on the installation media.
◦ The prerequisites for installing Creo Schematics are not met.
• You must run the Assistant only from the installation media when installing Creo Schematics for the first time.
• You cannot generate and download a license or install PTC License Server in silent mode. The installer cannot connect to PTC.com in silent mode. Hence, the license sources must already be accessible to all the computers on which the application software will subsequently be run. The silent installation process will neither validate any license nor attempt to access the license sources.
• You cannot copy an existing installation while performing a silent installation.
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If you change the installation folder structure of an installed Creo Schematics installation, “uninstall” or “reconfiguration” utilities may not work properly for that installation of Creo Schematics.
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Some of the advantages of a silent installation follow:
• You can efficiently mass-deploy Creo Schematics across a large enterprise.
• You can source all the configuration settings, such as installation location, license source list, and startup commands, for installing Creo Schematics from an XML file.