Picasa silent install/MSI or equivalent

[Little-Miss]

Hi,

Our new scheme of work for ICT calls for Picasa to be used.

Now i cant find an MSI and looks like there isnt one. I've not had much luck with Silent Installs but will give it a try if someone can help.

Otherwise, can someone recommend a program (free!) that is as close to Picasa as possible. I haven't read what exactly it wants to be done with the photos.

Thanks!

[Steve21]

Anything wrong with using the exe?

picasa39-setup.exe /S /L

Steve

[Little-Miss]

Oh i tried this....its more something wrong with me i imagine! lol Will try again!

[Steve21]

Worked fine here One thing i did notice is it needs caps, won't accept lowercase for some reason.

Steve

[Little-Miss]

Ooh..what needs caps?

I can get the damn thing to run from the bat but when i get my vbs to call it during login nothing happens. Probably doing something daft but not with it today!

[Steve21]

Ooh..what needs caps?

I can get the damn thing to run from the bat but when i get my vbs to call it during login nothing happens. Probably doing something daft but not with it today!

picasa39-setup.exe /S /L

^ S/L needs to be caps it seems Just running it cmd prompt currently, not using vbs. Still not working for you?

Steve

[Little-Miss]

nah, i copied and pasted exactly what you wrote.

The script works, just not when called via VBS it seems..

[sted]

then why not run it as a batch file?

something like

@echo off
rem check if exists in program files
if exist c:\program files\google\picasa\picasa.exe goto _end
rem check if exists in program files x86
if exist c:\program files (x86)\google\picasa\picasa.exe goto _end
rem installer
picasa39-setup.exe /S /L

:_end

[Little-Miss]

'picasa39-setup.exe' is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

That will be why then..

now im stumped lol!

[sted]

That will be why then..

now im stumped lol!

have you put the full patch infront of 'picasa39-setup.exe' so something like (and "" possibly needed due to filename length or at least wont harm) "\\server\packages$\google\picassa\29\picasa39-setup.exe"

[Little-Miss]

Ah, ok...now it asks me for admin password. How does one bypass this...

[Little-Miss]

Hmm could also do with a "dont install if already there" in the batch...

[soveryapt]

Combing @sted suggestions would give ...

 @echo off
rem check if exists in program files
if exist c:\program files\google\picasa\picasa.exe goto _end
rem check if exists in program files x86
if exist c:\program files (x86)\google\picasa\picasa.exe goto _end
rem installer
"\\server\path$\picasa39-setup.exe /S /L"

:_end

which when run as a batch file in the startup script, shouldn't need any admin rights ..

I essentially use the same command here, just run via WPKG instead ..

[sted]

Ah, ok...now it asks me for admin password. How does one bypass this...

if you run it as a login script it runs with that usrs credentials startup scrips run as admin