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Installing Silently

You can install Micro Focus products silently by using command line parameters to specify the installation directory, user information, and which features to install. You must execute the command with superuser permissions.

To install silently use the following command:

start /wait install-file.exe /q [parameters]

where install-file for the following products is as follows:

Visual COBOL: vce_23.exe

To see what parameters you can use, execute the following from the command line:

install-file /help

See the Examples section further in this topic for examples of some of the parameters you can use.

After the application installation is complete you can install the license silently by executing the following commands:

If you have access to the Internet and an authorization code

For 32-bit Windows environments:

start /wait "" "C:\Program Files\Common Files\SafeNet Sentinel\Sentinel RMS License Manager\WinNT\cesadmintool" -term activate AuthorizationCode

For 64-bit Windows environments:

start /wait "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\SafeNet Sentinel\Sentinel RMS License Manager\WinNT\cesadmintool" -term activate AuthorizationCode

If you don't have access to the Internet but have a file from Micro Focus that contains the license string

For 32-bit Windows environments:

start /wait "" "C:\Program Files\Common Files\SafeNet Sentinel\Sentinel RMS License Manager\WinNT\cesadmintool" -term install -f FileName

For 64-bit Windows environments:

start /wait "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\SafeNet Sentinel\Sentinel RMS License Manager\WinNT\cesadmintool" -term install -f FileName

where FileName is the name of the text file that contains all the license strings to be used.

Directory considerations

You must have read and write access for every directory accessed during the installation.
You can override the default installation folder using the INSTALLDIR parameter.
If a path in a definition contains spaces, then the path must be preceded by a backslash and double quotation mark (\"). For example:
```
INSTALLDIR=path
INSTALLDIR=\"c:\MyProduct\" 
INSTALLDIR=\"c:\Program Files\Micro Focus\My Product\"
```

Installing creates a group of log files prefixed Micro_Focus_ in the %temp% folder, by default. To change the location or name, use the /l parameter on your Setup command line and specify the path and file name, for example:
```
/l*v drive:\path\LogFilename
```

Examples

To silently install Visual COBOL into a directory other than the default:
```
start /wait vce_23.exe /q InstallFolder=c:\DirectoryName
```
If you want to silently install the Eclipse IDE in a location other than the default, execute:
```
start /wait vce_23.exe /q InstallFolder2=c:\EclipseInstallDirectory
```