If you used the GUI or command line interface to generate your response file, you will need to manually specify the password that used to unlock the drivers with a text editor. The installer program does not populate the password you specified to the response file for security purposes. When updating the response file, the password entry takes the form of PASSWORD=password. See Performing a silent installation for details on manually updating a response file.

To perform a silent installation:

  1. From a command-line prompt, navigate to the directory that contains the installer's binary file.
  2. Execute a silent installation:

    installer_filename -f  configuration_file -i silent

    where

    installer_filename
    is the full name of the installer's binary file you extracted in Step 4 of "Branding the drivers on UNIX and Linux."
    configuration_file
    is the location and name of the configuration file that you have created.

    If the configuration file is named silent.cfg and resides in the current working directory, you would enter the following for a 64-bit Linux installation of the 8.0 version of the product:

    PROGRESS_DATADIRECT_ODBC_8.0_LINUX_64_INSTALL.bin -f silent.cfg -i silent

    You may also specify an absolute or relative path, for example:

    PROGRESS_DATADIRECT_ODBC_8.0_LINUX_64_INSTALL.bin -f /home/users/johndoe/silent.cfg -i silent

    or

    PROGRESS_DATADIRECT_ODBC_8.0_LINUX_64_INSTALL.bin -f ./install/silent.cfg -i silent

    Note: For cross-platform branding, you can use the DCROSS_BRAND and DUSER_INSTALL_DIR arguments to override the product platform and product installation directory specified in the configuration file. This provides a method to perform installations for multiple platforms without having to edit the configuration file. For example:

    PROGRESS_DATADIRECT_ODBC_8.0_LINUX_64_INSTALL.bin -DCROSS_BRAND=aix32 -DUSER_INSTALL_DIR=/home/users/install -f ./install/silent.cfg -i silent

    The valid values for the DCROSS_BRAND argument are aix32, aix64, hpia32, hpia64, hprisc32, hprisc64, linux32, linux64, linuxia64, linuxppc32, linuxppc64, linuxzos64, power864, solaris32 (SPARC), solaris64 (SPARC), solarisx32, or solarisx64.

  3. The installation proceeds without any further user intervention unless you enter an incorrect value on the command line or in the configuration file, in which case an error is displayed and the installer aborts. To complete the installation, you must correct the command line or silent installation configuration file and execute it again.