Silently installing adt packaged app?

Question

Hi there,
I'm trying to silently install my air app (via the Adobe AIR Installer) as part of a meta-installer which installs other required elements into the install folder (telling the app to install to the same location as the rest of the files which are downloaded as required by user choice)
This works fine with a .air file, but as soon as I package the air file into a native .exe, the silent install fails. (It must be packaged as I must use NativeProcess in the app)
Testing via cmd has shown I can call the Native.exe with a -silent argument, and the app will silently install to its default location, but I cannot tell it to install to a specific directory as it doesn't work with a -location argument.
Trying to run it through the Adobe AIR Installer.exe gives this log:
[2010-07-23:15:41:52] Starting silent app install of file:///C:/Users/My User Name/Desktop/DAD.exe
[2010-07-23:15:41:52] UI SWF load is complete
[2010-07-23:15:41:52] UI initialized
[2010-07-23:15:41:52] Unpackaging to C:\Users\My User Name\AppData\Local\Temp\fla3691.tmp
[2010-07-23:15:41:52] failed while unpackaging: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="not an AIR file" errorID=0]
[2010-07-23:15:41:52] starting cleanup of temporary files
[2010-07-23:15:41:52] application installer exiting
Any ideas?
Adam

Answer 1

Hi Chris,
Thanks for taking the time to try and help solve the problem.
I have tried again using the methods you have suggested but the log file reports this now:
[2010-07-28:09:00:01] Bootstrapper begin (Win:version 2.0.2.12610)
[2010-07-28:09:00:01] Installed runtime located (2.0.2.12610)
[2010-07-28:09:00:01] Launching application installer: "Adobe AIR Application Installer.exe" -silent -location "C:\test" "C:\Users\ADAM\AppData\Local\Temp\AIR3986.tmp\DAD"
[2010-07-28:09:00:02] Starting silent app install of file:///C:/Users/ADAM/AppData/Local/Temp/AIR3986.tmp/DAD
[2010-07-28:09:00:02] UI SWF load is complete
[2010-07-28:09:00:02] UI initialized
[2010-07-28:09:00:02] Detected native app installer
[2010-07-28:09:00:02] style being loaded from Resources/stylesNative.swf
[2010-07-28:09:00:02] Validating the native package at file:///C:/Users/ADAM/AppData/Local/Temp/AIR3986.tmp/DAD
[2010-07-28:09:00:04] unpackaging/validation is complete
[2010-07-28:09:00:04] application is bound to this version of the runtime
[2010-07-28:09:00:04] app id com.ibundle.dwdi.ui
[2010-07-28:09:00:04] pub id
[2010-07-28:09:00:04] Application located at C:\test
[2010-07-28:09:00:04] bad configuration for silent install or update
[2010-07-28:09:00:04] starting cleanup of temporary files
[2010-07-28:09:00:04] application installer exiting
[2010-07-28:09:00:04] Application installer failure (9)
[2010-07-28:09:00:04] Bootstrapper failure (9)
Do you have any idea what would cause this error which is not present if using the exact same command with the original air file instead of native exe?
I am using Windows 7 64-bit if that makes any difference