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Install Level without Office Plugins

Laserfiche Administration

Updated July 19, 2016

asked on May 1, 2013 • Show version history

As I’m getting ready to deploy, on my command line for a startup script (as I don’t think LF supports any other kind of deployment unfortunately)

I have a line that sets several parameters and then the install level, I’m not sure as the default is 299, in some literature, then it says 300 in other places on support-LF.

Regardless, they include the Office plugins, but I’m not sure of the other levels, which might not have everything I need (client, snapshot, scanner, ocr) or has too much (plugins).

Support website does not go into more detail other than this:

Client INSTALLLEVEL values (along with which msi prefix they apply to):
- 1 - Core Client components (includes the Lf Client itself) (LFC)
- 49 - OCR (LFC)
- 99 - Office Plugin (LFO)
- 199 - Scanning (LFSC)
- 249 - PhotoDocs (LFPD)
- 299 - Snapshot (Corresponds to Typical Installation in Setup) (LFSS)
- 399 - LfAdmin (LFA)
- 499 - MakeLfRP (Corresponds to Administrative Installation in Setup) (LFA)
- 899 - Local Help Files (LFD)
- 949 - Link Group Converter Utility (LFC) (Feature: LGCU)
- 999 - Snapshot Shared Printer (LFSS)

Any idea which level will give me all I need for a client, without plugins?

What is the difference between, say, level 299 and 300?

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replied on May 2, 2013 • Show version history

Information on this topic (Unattended Installation) is thoroughly documented in the installation section of the Laserfiche Administration Guide, which is part of the online help files.

In this customer’s case, it seems like they might want to look at the ADDLOCAL property, which allows more control over which specific components to install versus the cumulative INSTALLLEVEL property. The ADDLOCAL property is covered specifically on the Unattended Installation Properties page.

Also, there is no functional difference between 299 or 300 for the Snapshot INSTALLLEVEL, or for 199 or 200 for Scanning, etc. as the INSTALLLEVEL command takes everything below the stated number. They are presented as even numbers in the help simply for the sake of cleaner documentation, but I imagine your customer found the DevNotes page on the support site, which lists the actual development values.

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replied on July 19, 2016

Hi Gerry,

First off, the difference between 300 and 299 is that we generally just saw the whole numbers for simplification. The way installlevel works is that it's an ever growing list - the number you list includes everything smaller than that current number. So 400 will include everything from 1 through 399. We've organized this list by what is normally the most common, but if you want to get more specific you need to use ADDLOCAL instead of installlevel. So to install the Client, Scanning, Snapshot, and the administration console you'd do something like LFCADDLOCAL=ALL, LFSCADDLOCAL=ALL, LFSSADDLOCAL=ALL, and LFAADDLOCAL=ALL. Basically, you do either ADDLOCAL or you do installlevel, but not both.

Note also that -silent and -noUI are similarly setup to be one or the other. -noUI means no user interaction and will provide a progress bar but not prompt the user. -silent is completely silent and will not provide any prompts to the user, even errors.

You can use any form of group policy msi or exe deployment to push out the Client package.

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replied on July 19, 2016

Thanks Justin for all that information.

Seems like by using the addlocal instead of an install level, the silent install stops if it requires a reboot. Looked at the logs and the reason is:

Reboot required due to prerequisite install

However, after it does install with this command line, fortunately the office plugins are not there.

Will just look over the forums about this reboot issue.

Thanks again for helping me finally get rid of the office plugins. Cheers.

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replied on July 19, 2016

Hello, turns out I'm the guy that originally requested information on this through a reseller ( I sent him an e-mail and I see he posted it here).

To this day I still don't know how to install without the office plugins.

I'm looking at the docs you point to, AddLocal, that one looks like it makes you specify product by product, not sure. Do you have an example of how I can install all client features minus the office plugins (those plugins are always causing trouble).

So far I have this:

"\\path\en-US\Client\setup.exe" -silent -log "C:\temp\LF10install" -noui -iacceptlicenseagreement INSTALLLEVEL=400 -lang en

Thanks!

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