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Install software on a remote machine?

I posted this question to SO, but I'm really not sure whether it should go SO or ServerFault, so I'm posting it here too. Here's the question: Hey SO Gus, This might seem like a dump question, but my complete ignorance with VbScript is giving me…
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RHEL5 Bootable Kickstart DVD - Anaconda ignores my ks.cfg

I have created a kickstart file, ks.cfg, which I wish to package with the RHEL5 install DVD. I extracted all the files from the DVD to a working directory '/root/cd': cp -a /media/RHEL* /root/cd/ I also copied the ".discinfo" file when I realized…
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Cross-platform scripting

I use a Bash script to deploy a heavily-customised version of JBoss onto RHEL machines. These scripts do things such as update the port binding offset depending on the name of the instance that is being created, etc. We now have a need to run the…
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Windows 7: Install Type 1 fonts via command line

So I have a number of Type 1 fonts (.PFM & .PFB files) that I am trying to push out to our client machines. After some web searches, here is what I did. On my machine, I installed all of the fonts by opening the font file in windows explorer and…
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How to silently uninstall then reinstall Quicktime remotely/programattically

We have a Scholastic program that uses Quicktime to do audio playback and recording. Unfortunately for me, when I created my image, I didn't know that installing too high a version of Quicktime would break the program. So now I'm faced with having…
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Debian preseed late_command is not executed

On /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat i says this: Name: preseed/late_command Template: preseed/late_command Value: wget http://suportrecerca.barcelonamedia.org/Utilitats/preseed/postscript/post.sh \ -O /usr/sbin/post.sh; chmod 777…
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Silent install of Office 2010 w/Visio and Project

Is there a way to silent install Office 2010 Pro Plus with Visio 2010 Premium and Project 2010 Pro all at the same time? I've configured the msp's for each individual product and when I have the install directories all in the same folder, running…
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WMIC returns error when querying product

I'm trying to automate the installation of an MSI on my server, however before the installation can go ahead I need to uninstall the previous version from the server. Searching on the internet I've found that WMIC is the tool required but there…
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How to run script after partitioning step in a automated debian install (preseed.cfg)?

I am trying to configure an automated Debian 12 installation using the BTRFS filesytem, which should support timeshift for snapshots. So far, I have a complete preseed.cfg, integrated into the Debian 12 netinstall iso, which fully automates the…
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Debian automated install preseed auto partitioning seemingly ignored

I'm playing with Debian preseed files trying to auto-partitioning a single disk. The final disk state I'm trying to reach is the following : boot Primary Partition 1 ext3 [256MB] primary /boot (/dev/sda1) rootfs …
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User-script after auto-install (Ubuntu 20.04)

I have setup an auto-install (Ubuntu 20.04 live server) with a user-data file. My goal is to run a script after the installation is completed. So after the last reboot and the steps that happens there (like snap package installations). The latest…
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Automated Ubuntu 20.04 server install: How can I get hostname from DHCP server?

On older versions of Ubuntu (using the Classical Installer), I was able to populate the hostname from my DHCP server. I then passed it by using the netcfg/get_hostname= option of the kernel parameters. As of 20.04, the Classical Installer no longer…
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Can't get a cronjob to run a script that installs a service which requires root

I need to run, on Ubuntu 18.04, via cron a script, myscript.sh that contains, among other things, installation instruction for another script, pluckeye-linux-0.99.40.installer and I'm running into a tedious error: The script in question is the…
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Vmware linux automated install

Does vmware products has a linux automated installing feature? (like windows auto install) Or if not how implement this feature?
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MDT Application Installs within LiteTocuh.vbs but not initial deployment

Ok I am having a weird issue with MDT. I have an application that I am trying to install with a batch file. This application requires a .iss file to be silently installed. Here is what the batch file holds: Application.exe /s /f1"PathToISS.iss" Here…
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