Visual COBOL Installation Options

You can install Micro Focus products silently by specifying /q at the command line and using command line parameters to specify the installation directory (installfolder=path), user information, and which features to install. You must execute the command with superuser permissions.

To see what parameters you can use, execute the following from the command line:

install-file /help

where install-file for the following products is as follows:

Visual COBOL: vce_30.exe

See the Examples section further in this topic for examples of some of the parameters you can use.

Directory considerations

You must have read and write access for every directory accessed during the installation.
You can override the default installation folder using the InstallFolder parameter.

Installing creates a group of log files prefixed Micro_Focus_ in the %temp% folder, by default. To change the location or name, use the /log parameter on your Setup command line and specify the path and file name, for example:
```
/log drive:\path\LogFilename
```

Installing silently

Use the /q parameter to install silently:

start /wait install-file.exe /q [parameters]

Examples

To silently install Visual COBOL into a directory other than the default:
```
start /wait vce_30.exe /q InstallFolder=c:\DirectoryName
```
If you want to silently install the Eclipse IDE in a location other than the default, execute:
```
start /wait vce_30.exe /q InstallFolder2=c:\EclipseInstallDirectory
```

To skip installing JRE when installing Visual COBOL:
```
start /wait vce_30.exe /q skipjre=1
```