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DirectX 9.x
Company: Microsoft
Setup Type: Legacy setup with no known support
Package Difficulty Rating: Somewhat Easy (2) [ Rate It or View Ratings ]
Most Commonly Reported Method: Repackaged (MSI)
Record Created On: 5/6/2003
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Full Name: Microsoft Managed DirectX (1126)

Version: 9.00.1126

Publisher: Microsoft

Contact: Microsoft

Comments: DirectX for Managed Languages

Help: http://msdn.microsoft.com/DirectX

More Info URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/DirectX

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Command Lines: Command line details for installation and removal of this software. Details may include available command line arguments and/or public properties.

Unattended installation of DirectX without rebooting:
DXwebSetup.exe /c:"DXwSetup.exe /windowsupdate" /q /r:n

As tested on DireectX v9.0B

Above Entry Provided on 7/20/2004 by C_Denninger 		Rate It
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It seems that it is true about 9.0c supporting command line switches. The only switch I test was /silent, but I can also confirm that the /opk switch does NOT work.

Above Entry Provided on 8/26/2004 by cdupuis 		Rate It
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To install directx_feb2006_redist.exe, I used:

directx_feb2006_redist.exe /t:"%temp%" /q
pushd "%temp%"
start /wait DXSETUP.exe /silent
popd

Above Entry Provided on 3/4/2006 by rasa 		Rate It
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I do almost the same:

1. [PackagePath]\directx_apr2006_redist.exe /T:C:\temp /C
2. C:\temp\dxsetup /silent

Johnny

Above Entry Provided on 12/2/2006 by johnnygoodface 		Rate It
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My solution for silent and clean installation is:

start /wait directx_jun2008_redist.exe /Q /T:"%temp%\DX9\"
%temp%\DX9\DXSETUP.exe /silent
del %temp%\DX9\" /F /S /Q
rd "%temp%\DX9\" /Q

Above Entry Provided on 8/14/2008 by ExaFlop 		Rate It
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I am packaging the Feb 2007 version of DirectX and was having trouble getting it to work silently. I finally tried it with the following command line:

%installdir%\dxsetup.exe /SILENT

notice the caps- it did not work with lower case.

Above Entry Provided on 5/13/2009 by mjhicks 		Rate It
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Notes: Shared "notes from the field" covering how to handle the automated installation of this software.

The DirectX 9.0a runtime cannot be uninstalled. If using XP it is recommended that you create a "System Restore" point before installing. See Microsoft Knowledge Base article 310405.

Above Entry Provided on 5/6/2003 by bkelly 		Rate It
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Download the redistributable (link below) and it will decompress the mdxredist.msi file and its source files into the specified directory.

The dxsetup.exe does not support any of the silent or automated switches the previous release did. There is reportadly a copy of dxsetup.exe that may be used to replace the one that comes with v9 at the Microsoft OEM site if you happen to have access (I don't).

Above Entry Provided on 5/6/2003 by bkelly 		Rate It
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We are dealing with a disappointing step backward from Microsoft in regards to installation with this release:
Only the .Net managed DX.NET portion of the installation utilizes an MSI setup file (and cannot be run on its own). The majority of the installation is performed by a legacy setup that no longer seems to support any switches (as 8.x did).

The only response from MS has been, "You can use the DirectX Setup API , DirectXSetup(), to install the runtime silently." but this does most administrators little good.

VB Code to get the job done was posted by Jerry Ham (not MS, but someone else tackling this problem) at microsoft.public.directx.misc

Above Entry Provided on 5/6/2003 by bkelly 		Rate It
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It is possible to do an unattended installation provided you’re connected to the internet (most corporate and academic sys-admins should be!). Essentially you need to hijack the automated DirectX9 installation from the Windows Update service. This was accomplished on Win2k – it should be basically the same procedure for other windows flavours. On a machine that doesn’t have DX9 you need to prepare: find (and preferably empty) your %temp% directory (use ‘set’ at command prompt for where) – setup files will be downloaded here. Goto Windows Update and add DX9. When you start the update 2 directories will appear in %temp%: IXP???.tmp (6 files) and DX?.tmp (133 files) or similar (? - random chr). Copy the IPX dir to another location – these are the only files you need. You can then run ‘dxwsetup.exe /windowsupdate’ to do an automated installation (and no prompting, of course). I’m presuming the DX file locations are hard coded into some library or other as there doesn’t seem to be a way to use local installation files (which are in the DX? dir). I’m certain the more ambitious among you will find a way to do this!

Above Entry Provided on 5/16/2003 by longtalltim 		Rate It
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[rant]This is amazing. I cannot believe that there weren't any command-line options for silent/unattended/no reboot installs with DirectX 9! This is truly a nightmare when it comes to network admins with lots of workstations to update.

I received the same answer as others when posting the questions to Microsoft folks. Either reference the setup API and create my own wrapper or else download dozens of megs of a DirectX OPK. I didn't create my own wrapper since I'm not a "real" programmer and downloading the DirectX OPK didn't help since I didn't have the OPK Wizard utility.[/rant]

As an FYI the OPK download in and of itself doesn't have a silent install option. Neither does downloading the DirectX Redistribution package. I am having some luck with the dxwsetup.exe /windowsupdate command-line switch at least.

I hope that this isn't a hint of things to come. With all of the security updates I have to roll out it's bad enough picking between the update.exe, hotfix.exe and ieupdate.exe command-line options that are present. But if I can't perform silent installs then I am definitely affecting our company's productivity.

Above Entry Provided on 7/25/2003 by gregarican 		Rate It
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As an FYI if you download the DirectX 8.1 Redistribution package you can then extract the DirectX 8.1 install to get that particular version of the dxsetup.exe file.

That version still has the /silent and /install switches. Then you can dump that executable into the 9.0b install extraction. It works fine as I've tested with Windows 98 SE and Windows 2000 Professional clients.


Above Entry Provided on 7/25/2003 by gregarican 		Rate It
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from http://www.msfn.org/unattended/xp/directx.htm :

* Extract dx90b_redist.exe
* Open in a hex editor dxsetup.exe and go to offset 0x33e2 and change 74 to EB.
* dxsetup.exe /windowsupdate for unattended installation
* dxsetup.exe /opk for unattended+silent installation

Above Entry Provided on 7/28/2003 by jj03 		Rate It
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Definately not an easy package. To create into an msi combine the redist from MS with the merge module (available from Installshield for AdminStudio (using 5.5)). This cannot be compressed into a single msi, and is sloppy but gets the job done.

Above Entry Provided on 3/9/2004 by mupdike 		Rate It
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It is possible to build a package that can be deployed unattended using Microsoft SMS Installer. SMS Installer has a specific command for installing DirectX.

You write an installer that installs all the .cab, .dll, and .exe files (BDA.cab, BDANT.cab, BDAXP.cab, DirectX.cab, dsetup32.dll, DSETUP.dll, dxnt.cab, dxsetup.exe, ManagedDX.cab, and mdxredist.msi) into a TEMP/DirectX9 directory.

Then you use SMS Installer's Install DirectX command with some settings. For the DSETUP.DLL pathname put the <pathtotemp>\DirectX9\dsetup.dll For DirectX Directory Path put <pathtoTEMP>\DirectX9 For DirectX Version select DirectX 3.0 or higher. Check "Complete Installation of DirectX", "DirectVideo", and "Install DirectX Setup DLLs"

You can then delete the files in TEMP\DirectX9 directory.
I hope these instructions are detailed enough for someone to use. I did not come up with this but rather found the instructions on myitforum.com which is a web site I use primarily for information/tips on SMS.

Above Entry Provided on 5/21/2004 by eobiont 		Rate It
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We have dont it like "gregarican" works for ur, we have installed it on W2K sp4 clints this way. //Fetgor

Above Entry Provided on 6/15/2004 by fetgor 		Rate It
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DirectX 9.0c Redistributable is available:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/1/e/81ed90eb-dd87-4a23-aedc-298a9603b4e4/directx_9c_redist.exe

It looks like this version of dxsetup.exe supports
/silent
/packageinstall
/opk
/windowsupdate
/installmanageddx

I’ve only tried /silent and initial findings show it produces no dialogs and doesn't reboot.

Above Entry Provided on 8/12/2004 by jasonclamb 		Rate It
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If you use WIWW (Windows Installer Wrapper Wizard) you can specify the the /silent switch for the DX 9.0c install and then you have a fully Active Directory Software Installations GPO friendly MSI.

Above Entry Provided on 8/26/2004 by cdupuis 		Rate It
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dxwebsetup.exe /c:"dxwsetup.exe /windowsupdate"

When you first run this command, all needed files are downloaded from the web to websetup folder and then installed.
open explorer, and saves all the downloaded files from websetup folder to a safe place before they are deleted.

for later unattended installation :
create a new folder under %windir%\system32\DirectX\ called websetup (you may have to create the DirectX folder first)
copy all the downloaded files to
%windir%\system32\DirectX\websetup
for a French DirectX 9.0c install on 2K Pro SP4 the files are :
*.cab (see filelist.dat for details)
dsetup.dll (extracted when dxwebsetup.exe is launched)
dsetup32.dll (extracted when dxwebsetup.exe is launched)
filelist.dat

then run
dxwebsetup.exe /c:"dxwsetup.exe /windowsupdate"

the installer will find the files already in place (reading the content of filelist.dat and comparing with the content of the websetup folder) and run the components installation phase without downloading first.

filelist.dat

[General]
Version=1
[DirectX_Setup]
Version=4,9,0,904
Locale=en
GUID={44BBA855-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}
URL0=33086,setup_all.cab
[DirectX_Win2K]
Version=4,9,0,904
Locale=en
GUID={44BBA855-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}
URL0=11911,setup_w2k.cab
URL1=9383,graphics_w2k.cab
URL2=543565,graphics_w2k_81.cab
URL3=54285,dinput_w2k_81.cab
URL4=183857,ks_nt.cab
URL5=1156403,bda_w2k.cab
[DirectX_WinNT]
Version=4,9,0,904
Locale=en
GUID={44BBA855-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}
URL0=686893,audio_nt.cab
URL1=322769,dplay_nt.cab
URL2=545920,dshow_nt.cab
URL3=48779,dshow_nt_81.cab
URL4=295557,graphics_nt.cab
URL5=675150,vb_nt.cab
[DirectX_Win2K_FRN]
Version=4,9,0,904
Locale=en
GUID={44BBA855-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}
URL0=241985,audio_nt_frn.cab
URL1=439983,dinput_w2k_81_frn.cab
URL2=337038,dplay_nt_frn.cab
URL3=858904,dshow_nt_frn.cab
URL4=667898,dxdiag_nt_frn.cab
URL5=1278441,graphics_nt_frn.cab
URL6=25284,ks_nt_frn.cab
URL7=610129,dshow_w2k_frn.cab
URL8=15384,setup_w2k_frn.cab

you can download files one by one at this URL :
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/0/D/80D7E79D-C0E4-415A-BCCA-E229EAFE2679
example :
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/0/D/80D7E79D-C0E4-415A-BCCA-E229EAFE2679/setup_all.cab





Above Entry Provided on 10/11/2004 by Bilou_Gateux 		Rate It
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I'm only seeing 9.0b OPK on Microsoft's OEM site. What about 9.0c? I've managed to get DX9.0c to silently install. However, it does not work in a non-interactive install-mode (schedule an AT job to install it with no one logged on); just silently installing works fine. My company has approached Microsoft with for YEARS; I'm amazed that they still release patches/updates with this issue.

Above Entry Provided on 1/13/2005 by dengle 		Rate It
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Using Wise Package Studio

Here are the steps to install this executable in the machine or pre-login context.

1.) Create a new MSI project in WISE
2.) Put the file(s) in a directory in the files page (MUST be the DX executable)
3.) Go to the MSI Script tab and choose Execute Deferred
4.) Click on InstallFinalize
5.) Double click Execute Program from Installed Files
6.) Select the executable you wish to run
7.) Fill in the command line with any arguments
8.) Go to the properties tab and set In-Script Options to "Deferred execution - System Context"
9.) Set Processing to "Synchronous, ignore exit code"
10.) Click OK, Compile, and choose a file name for the MSI

(Credit to Dr. Lo for this.)

Above Entry Provided on 5/17/2006 by Charles Adie 		Rate It
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Script for AD deployment

Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next

Dim objShell, objFSO, Distr_Path, Directx_Check, Script_Path

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Distr_Path = "\\domain\distribution\Microsoft\Directx\directx_mar2009_redist\"
Script_Path = "\\domain\netlogon\directx\"
Directx_Check = "c:\directx_mar2009_redist.txt"


If (Not objFSO.FileExists(Directx_Check))Then

' objShell.Run Script_Path & "Messagebox.vbs"
objShell.Run Distr_Path & "dxsetup.exe /silent", 7, True
objShell.Run "xcopy """ & Distr_Path & "directx_mar2009_redist.txt"" c:\ /Y /Q /E", 7, True
objShell.Run "shutdown -r -t 00"

End If

Above Entry Provided on 4/24/2009 by marsman69 		Rate It
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