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Edit the silent.properties File

The silent installation program uses the silent.properties file to get information about your preferences for installing the Manager components on a supported Windows computer. Edit this file to perform a silent installation.

Important! We only support UTF-8 character encoding for silent.property file. For more information about UTF-8 character support and internationalization, see the Release Notes.

Follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the \Installers\Windows directory on the target computer and open the silent.properties file in a text editor.

   The contents of the file appear.

2. Follow the instructions contained in the file for specifying the installation options section in the comments. For example:

   USER_INSTALL_DIR=C:\\Program Files\\CA\\productname
   

   Use double backslashes (\\) to define a path.

   Note: Update the necessary sections, but do not remove sections of the file, even if they are not used.

3. Save and close the file.

When you run the silent installation program, it uses your settings to install the specified Manager components.