Hi everyone. I am working with my company to package up Rancher Desktop so we can start using it at work 🙂. However, the person working on the packaging is running into a challenge as he cannot get silent install working on Windows. We found a threat that indicates that /S might work, but it is not working for him. Any suggestions or pointers to where I could look to help them? https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/1858

Can you share the error or message you're seeing? Is it the error mentioned in issue #1858?

It is not so much an error, but rather, the installation is not being silent. A pop up happens asking the user to accept the license agreement. Since we are packaging for automated install via software center, we need a silent install for that to work.

My searching found the same issue you've already found. It looks like the capital /S should work. We tested it here with "Rancher.Desktop.Setup.1.5.0.exe /S" and it worked for us. If you have double-checked that you've used a capital S, and it still doesn't work, there may be some configuration that has to happen in your packager to work with the electron-builder or the NSIS install system mentioned in issue #1858...

Thank you. I will confirm and ask them to re-test and update you.

I have no idea what they are doing, but I can confirm that invoking the Setup program from both cmd.exe and from Powershell with the

/S

parameter does not display the license dialog. It does briefly flash a different popup, but that disappears on its own, and then returns to the command prompt. The install runs detached in the background and after about 1min you can see the desktop shortcut icon is being created.

It seems the issue was related to user they were using to run the installer vs the actual user, so they have changed up that approach and it seems to have cleared the issue. Thank you all for the guidance and support.