Mar 31 2009
Unattended Installs – Adobe Shockwave
Abobe Shockwave Player
Adobe’s Shockwave Player is another one of those small utilities that’s widely used on the Internet and, as a result it’s hard to ignore installing it as part of a standard computer build. Like Google Earth, Adobe would prefer that you download a small installer program that then completes the download and does the install. This is fine for one computer but when you’re doing it multiple times per week it’s not as useful.
There are ways to find the full installer but, in the end, I found the easiest way to get hold of it was to sign up to distribute both Shockwave and Flash Player. If you’re going to be doing standardised installs in some quantity it’s worth it. You get access to the full installers (including .msi versions if you want them).
I’m still installing an older version at the moment (v10) but will be moving to v11 shortly.
Once you’ve obtained your full installer, this will handle the silent install:
AdobeShockwave_v10.exe /S
(This article is part of a series about the build disc I use to standardise system builds. The series starts here and this particular article follows on from this one.)
