Cadence OrCAD and Allegro 17.4-2019 Installation Guide for Windows
Performing Silent Installations
October 2019 49 Product Version 17.4-2019
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OnMaintenance You can specify whether you want to modify, repair, or remove
installation. The possible values are MODIFY, REPAIR, and
REMOVEALL. MODIFY allows you to add new products by
editing the Feature section of the silent installation file.
REPAIR will update the environment variables and the
registry settings. REMOVEALL will uninstall the current
installation.
Rollback Specify Rollback=Y in combination with
OnMaintenance=REMOVEALL, if you want to perform
rollback to uninstall or remove specific HotFixes.
To remove the current installation,
a. Specify Rollback=N in combination with
OnMaintenance=REMOVEALL.
b. Enter the command setup.exe -removeonly
!quiet=
IsrBackup Specify IsrBackup=Y if you want to back up files while
installing HotFixes. This makes it possible to rollback specific
HotFixes. For more details, see Updating the Products on
page 57.
ALLUSERS Specify if the installation is for all users (ALLUSERS=YES), or
the current user (ALLUSERS=NO), which is the default. An
installation for all users allows any user logging into the
installed computer to access the installed products. A single
user installation only allows the login ID used during
installation to access and uninstall the applications.
GEN_DOC_INDEX Specify Y to generate document index. Document index are
generated and used the online help tool, Cadence Help.
Important
Generate document index if you are installing a
server that will be accessed by users without write
permission on the installation hierarchy. Users will
not be able to view or search installed documents if
the index is not generated.
REMOVE_CADENCE_PAT
H
Specify Y to remove Cadence paths from the PATH
environment variable. By default N is specified to ensure
paths are not removed.
