Install Mercurial Module for Windows Silently

Question

I am trying to install the following package mercurial-2.2.1.win-amd64-py2.6.exe silently to add it to my Puppet manifest.

I tried already with /s /q with no results.

This should help http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.php — kichik, Aug 20 '13 at 15:44
It seems that this guy https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild/downloads/mercurial-2.2.1.win-amd64-py2.6.exe does not follow on any of the list of silent installers. — Maverick, Aug 23 '13 at 02:17
It does not do anything special: just extracts and (optionally) compiles some files. — utapyngo, Aug 23 '13 at 19:57

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 08 '14 at 03:45

A better approach might be to use the Chocolatey package manager to install mercurial:

puppet module install rismoney/chocolatey

Then you can install mercurial (or most windows programs):

package { 'mercurial':
    ensure   => installed,
    provider => 'chocolatey',
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '16 at 13:15

Mercurial uses Inno Setup for their .exe installers. The option you are after is: /VERYSILENT.

They also usually offer .msi installers for download, but recently released packages are usually out as .exe before the .msi versions become available.

The documentation for Inno Setup command line parameters is at: http://www.jrsoftware.org/ishelp/topic_setupcmdline.htm

Pro tip: Whenever I'm looking for silent install command line options in a hurry, I read the chocolateyInstall.ps1 file for the chocolatey package.

Eg: for hg, go to https://chocolatey.org/packages/hg and click on the "show" link beside "tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1" (under "files") and look for a variable named "$silentArgs".

Install Mercurial Module for Windows Silently

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