Install Google Earth

[msaglioc99]

[Tom Elliott]

WHy is this setup as a pack? If you’re using the exe file itself? Packs are meant to be used as a “series” of data to be run/installed using a common executable to manage (maybe script is better?)

[msaglioc99]

@Tom-Elliott said in Install Google Earth:

is setup as a pack? If you’re using the exe file itself? Packs are meant to be used as a “series” of data to be run/installed using a common executable to manage (maybe script is better?)

I did it as a pack because there was no template for an exe file as a regular snapin? What template should I select if I use snapin.

[Tom Elliott]

@msaglioc99 it really depends on the file, but according to what i’m seeing, you can use MSI for the googleearthpro.exe file.

[msaglioc99]

Okay I will change the template to MSI and try to deploy it. Should any other settings be changed? That you see of?

[Tom Elliott]

@msaglioc99 not that i’m aware of sorry.

[x23piracy]

Hi,

download the offline installer: https://support.google.com/earth/answer/168344?hl=en
and read the following: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/qcdhk3Aj1CI

The important thing is OMAHA=1, but this will force auto updates.
Setting your Snapin to MSI would be wrong because it’s not an msi.
Ok i am wrong here the binary contains an msi but i cannot find the temporary path where the installer extract it to.

Before trying to deploy that try this in a commandline on a local computer to see if it works.

Good luck

EDIT: I tried it for you “googleearth-win-7.1.8.3036.exe OMAHA=1” installs earth silently on my system.

The Following should work, don’t forget to add the installer binary, i don’t do this for fun

The Snapin preview should look like “cmd.exe /c googleearth-win-7.1.8.3036.exe OMAHA=1”

If you finally want to extract the msi out of the exe installer read this: http://www.itninja.com/blog/view/deploying-google-earth-through-gpo

Regards X23

[msaglioc99]

Thank You!!! This worked!

[Tom Elliott]

@msaglioc99 Can you be more specific as to what worked? So anybody else looking at this knows what to do? (Sorry to sound rude, but as a limited community it helps everybody out much more having exact information). Thank you.

[msaglioc99]

@Tom-Elliott said in Install Google Earth:

n you be more specific as to what worked? So anybody else looking at this knows what to do? (Sorry to sound rude, but as a limited community it helps everybody out much more having

@x23piracy method of installing google chrome via snapins and using the settings he posted successfully did a silent install of Google Chrome on a machine I deployed to.