Hoc can I deply kicad silentlly?
kicad-5.1.6_1-x86_64.exe /s
doesn’t work.
I am probably not the person who would be able to give you the answer you are looking for. But although I understand the words in English, I have no idea what you mean by “deploy silently”. Perhaps it would be helpful to explain what is your objective.
I think it means installing with the installer without the GUI, using only command line.
kicad-5.1.6_1-x86_64.exe /S
Use capital S.
And it’ll take a bit to install regardless because it’s extracting thousands of small library files 
Even for me on Windows 10 64-bit on a silent install on an SSD, it easily takes 2 mins.
Also the user account has to be able to escalate to admin OR it must be runned as an admin account.
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It’s IT speak for automated deployment of software be it through a package manager OR group policy 
Thanks. Just FYI; I do exclusively analog and power and I still do not understand. This is not an IT forum and I am not requesting further explanation. At least I got some dialog going for SteffenNetz.
He explicitly didn’t want a dialog 
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Thanks eelik. That’s OK; we actually gave him a quadralog. (Dialog is 2; but I see 4 of us now.) 
maybe some people here know it by the term “headless” install… as from a “headless embedded system”
Hi guys, I’m so amazed for your helpfulness. Thanks.
I’m sitting in an institute and have to install the software on many computers.
We call it silent deployment/install. We start in the background.
Is there a documentation. Is this a NSIS-Installer?
@eelik Can I avoid the dialog?
It seems asynchronous. Do I have the chance to see the success of install.
Some Log-Files?
Yes, it is NSIS intaller. I don’t know about avoiding the installer extraction dialog.
How many is many? A dozen? 50? 500? Over a dozen I would consider putting the application on a shared RO network drive. Unless you have application deployment software like ansible.
We are speaking about 10 to 20 installations. Yes we have deployment software (DSM by Enteo).
A network installation is not allowed with our policies.
If it would have been 100 I would have encouraged you to give a talk in the next KiCon.
@SteffenNetz In principle you can just extract it locally (install it), add a script to add the mime handlers and zip that up. Then I guess your deployment tool could just use that.
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