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Silent install of Filemaker 17 Pro Advanced

Jim Hankins

May 31, 2018 14:20

Has anyone had any luck creating a silent install Package for Filemaker Pro 17? I had 16 working by using pulling out the .msi files from the .exe and installing the required components first which was essentially C++ Redistrib and a .NET component, then the Filemaker MSI itself. That strategy isn't working for 17. I keep getting an unknown error on the Filemaker MSI component.

I then tried using just the straight .exe network install path with the answer file and that runs, says completed but doesn't actually install.

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Chris James
June 05, 2018 14:19

Hey Jim,

Don't have access to the software to test here, but I found their documentation for network deployments here: https://fmhelp.filemaker.com/docs/17/en/fmpnisg/#install-filemaker-pro-windows_install-method-windows

A lot of the time MSI installers will have fairly detailed output files, have you tried reviewing those as well?

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Mills, Greg
January 17, 2019 18:12

Hi Jim, I'm attempting to build a v16 installer package using your technique. I've got the C++ and .NET installers to run but not the actual FMP installer. Did you use the same arguments as per the Filemaker network install guide i.e. /s /v /qn?

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Mills, Greg
January 17, 2019 18:53

The log argument is used, but where would this file be written to?

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Mills, Greg
January 31, 2019 11:34

Do we have many Filemaker users in the PDQ Deploy community? It is a niche product I know, but I thought there might be someone here that could help out.

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Tyler Smith
February 05, 2019 21:18

I can confirm that I am having the same Issue with v17 of File Maker Pro. Same Arguments work fine for v16. Trying to find a solution

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Tyler Smith
February 05, 2019 22:16

Jim - Are you seeing the following error in your log file?

Action start 11:57:42: PDFInfo. CustomAction PDFInfo returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox) Action ended 11:57:42: PDFInfo. Return value 3. Action ended 11:57:42: INSTALL. Return value 3.

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dmorgan
June 12, 2019 14:47

I don't know if you still need it, but just the "/qn" on the setup.exe has worked for me in 17 and 18, it will also install the extra software like bonjour the .msi won't.

https://fmhelp.filemaker.com/docs/17/en/fmpnisg/index.html#install-filemaker-pro-windows_set-silient-assisted-installations-windows

https://fmhelp.filemaker.com/docs/18/en/fmpnisg/#install-filemaker-pro-windows_set-silient-assisted-installations-windows

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contact.informatique
August 26, 2019 20:04

FileMaker Pro 17 Advanced worked with setup.exe /qn and as mentionned by Denham also installed Bonjour.

I had to check "Include Entre Directory". Without this, I had an error code (Setup.exe returned error code 1)

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