jdt2oo7
5th February 2010 20:37 UTC

Install applications with same language as installer
Hi all,

I have a multi-language installer M which displays a list of multi-language applications. After user select which applications they want, we will silently install those applications. These applications (setup.exe files) are not compressed with installer M, they resides in external folder.

The situation I am in is: If user select to run installer M in Spanish, we would like to have selected applications to be installed in Spanish also. Currently, selected applications are installed in English.

Any suggestion on how I can do this?

Thanks!

Animaether
5th February 2010 20:44 UTC

If you are running the application installers silently, you would have to...

A. check if those applications support a language switch on their command-line.

or

B. check if they get language information from the registry somewhere (i.e. previous installs; but beware that some installers check for the existence of a key and may think the program is already installed if you create this key + language value)

or

C. Temporarily change the locale of the user's windows settings in the registry - as this is what most 'smart' installers will default to choosing if run manually. Also rather iffy.