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

[Michael]

I know this is an old discussion, but I've found an easy way to create an MSI from Picasa 3.9.

 

Download Picasa 3.9 here

 

Download Exe to MSI Converter Free here

 

Specify the switches: /S /L

 

Deploy with Group Policy, works perfectly