P4
A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
Please implement a silent installer for the Linux JRE packages.
JUSTIFICATION :
They are there in Windows, but not in Linux.
This makes it more annoying to redistribute a JRE with our Java apps because we have to explicitly handle the input/output just for responding to the license agreement. With the Windows silent installer, we could just cut-and-paste the Sun license agreement and display it ourselves, but the license agreement prohibits me from changing code in the package itself, thus I can't legally just shut off the license prompting in the Linux bin file. This would be such an easy feature to provide, since the only thing being prompted for is license acceptance.
EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Pass a command line parameter to the bin file for silent mode.
ACTUAL -
There are no documented ways to stop the installer from prompting for license acceptance.
CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
From our installer, we have to pipe input and output from the JRE installation, just so that we can handle the license acceptance prompt. It works, it's just ugly given that we also distribute the same applications on Windows and don't have to do this.
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Please implement a silent installer for the Linux JRE packages.
JUSTIFICATION :
They are there in Windows, but not in Linux.
This makes it more annoying to redistribute a JRE with our Java apps because we have to explicitly handle the input/output just for responding to the license agreement. With the Windows silent installer, we could just cut-and-paste the Sun license agreement and display it ourselves, but the license agreement prohibits me from changing code in the package itself, thus I can't legally just shut off the license prompting in the Linux bin file. This would be such an easy feature to provide, since the only thing being prompted for is license acceptance.
EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Pass a command line parameter to the bin file for silent mode.
ACTUAL -
There are no documented ways to stop the installer from prompting for license acceptance.
CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
From our installer, we have to pipe input and output from the JRE installation, just so that we can handle the license acceptance prompt. It works, it's just ugly given that we also distribute the same applications on Windows and don't have to do this.
###@###.### 2005-2-14 19:52:52 GMT