Maptek Vulcan Command line Installation

Alternatively, Vulcan can also be installed from the command line using various parameters.

Parameters

“Vulcan <version>.exe” /? shows available installation options.

Parameter Description

/install

/repair

/uninstall

/layout

Installs, repairs, uninstalls, or creates a complete local copy of the bundle in directory.

/install is the default.

/passive

/quiet

Displays minimal UI with no prompts.

Displays no UI and no prompts.

By default, UI and all prompts are displayed.

/norestart Suppresses any attempts to restart.
By default, UI will prompt before restart.

/log log.txt

Logs to a specific file.

By default, a log file is created in %TEMP%.

Custom properties

Property Description

INSTALLDIR

The target folder in which the Vulcan is installed.

Silent installation

To perform a silent installation of Vulcan, run the command below. Running a silent installation will install Vulcan with the default environment variables set on the target machine. However, it does not set any corporate standards variables.

Vulcan <version>.exe” /install /quiet /log “<target folder>\Vulcan_Install_0000.txt” INSTALLDIR=“<target folder>

Using.msi and not.exe

If you want to handle prerequisites and Vulcan installation separately within SCCM, you may use.msi with msiexec.

The .msi can be used without any modification. To perform a silent install, you can run the following command.

msiexec.exe /quiet /i “Vulcan.msi” INSTALLDIR=“<target folder>