Running a silent install provides users with default install options. To customize the silent install, you can use, individually or in combination, install manifest customization and a tuner transform file.

IBM® Lotus® Notes® installation uses an install manifest file (INSTALL.XML), supplied in the Notes installation kit as deploy\install.xml. This file and its contents can be customized to control which features are installed automatically, which features appear in the feature installation panel for user selection, and whether features are presented as enabled or disabled by default. Using a silent install, you can define which features in the install manifest are installed automatically, by setting the "required" attribute to "true" for each "installfeature" ID you want installed. Features in the install manifest that have their "required" attribute set to "true" are automatically installed.

Note Silent install uses the settings in the Notes MSI file. The settings in the MSI file override the settings in the Notes install manifest file (deploy\install.xml). To install IBM® Lotus® Domino® Designer or IBM® Lotus® Domino® Administrator, you must either select them for install using the feature installation panel or specify them for silent install using the tuner. They will not be installed, even if specified in the SELECTINSTALLFEATURES property, if they are not selected for install as part of the MSI installation.

Before you begin the silent installation, perform the following tasks:

• For single user install, optionally use the tuner to create a transform file. For multi-user silent install, you must use the tuner to create a transform file that specifies multi-user install.
• Determine which features you want installed, open the install manifest INSTALL.XML, locate the "installfeature" ID, and set the "required" attribute to "true". Alternatively, you can specify features for install using command line arguments.
• Determine the desired installation directory and Notes data directory.
• For Notes installation on a Microsoft® Windows® client, determine if the install will be for single user or multi-user.
• Read the release notes for disk-space requirements and for last-minute changes or additions to the documentation.

Automating Notes installation using a silent install
Performing a Notes multi-user silent install
Performing a Notes silent install on Windows
Performing a Notes silent install on Linux
Using the install manifest "default" setting for silent feature specification
Calling a transform file during Notes silent install
Customizing Notes install using the tuner
Customizing the Notes install kit to add or remove Eclipse features
Eclipse files and folders in the install kit

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