I am trying to install .exe file but win_shell or win_command is running the installer indefinightly. The exe installation requirs to feed instaructions during installation, like language : english, select a check box, next and finish etc. How can I achieve it with ansible script. Thanks a lot for your support.
Try using the expect module?
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Not always, but many Windows installers can install non-interactively by providing all of the answers it needs at runtime. This might mean passing them all as arguements/parameters, or providing an answers file. Sometimes an exe is just a wrapper around an msi installer, which can be extracted and more easily installed since MSI is easy to automate.
There’s even a possibility that the install is already automated by Chocolatey, and you could leverage the Chocolatey.Chocolatey collection.
Can you tell us what program you’re actually trying to install?
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Thank you all for your quick response.
No, I have not tried with expect module nor with chocolatey package for this exe installation. Will try and update here.
However I have made it work with creating a ‘ini’ file with all the interactive command and referring it from the ansible script.
Command:
- name: install gpg4win-3.1.5.exe
win_command: D:\gpg4win-3.1.5.exe /S /C=D:\gpg4win.ini /D=D:\Gpg4win
both the .exe file and ‘ini’ file inside ‘D:/’ drive.
If anyone has any better solution, please share. Thank you.