How do you perform a fully silent install?

Hello, is there a way to silently deploy the free version of DaVinci Resolve 12.5 via something like Microsoft's SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager)? We want to deploy it in a classroom of about 30 computers.

I found that you can use a /q switch on the command line to perform a silent install, but after the initial install of DaVinci Resolve, it pops up asking if you want to install a driver. I need a way to have all of that answered automatically and be hidden from the end user.

I saw that there is a switch to read a config file during installation, but I could not find how to generate that config file or where it is located after an installation. I also do not know if that config file would allow the automatic installation of the driver or if that is considered a separate install.

Does anyone know how to deploy the free version of DaVinci Resolve 12.5 including the required driver silently?

Thanks for your help,

Jeremy Hawks
Green River College
Auburn, WA, USA

Probably too late now, but in case someone else needs this, here's what I do:

Start the Resolve installer on your own machine and click through the component selection. Then once the first installation dialog pops up, navigate to your %LocalAppData%/Temp directory and find the temp folder that contains the MSIs. Copy those somewhere else (for me it's just ResolveInstaller.msi and DaVinci Resolve Panels Installer v1.1.1.msi) and use those for your setup. I'm not using SCCM but another deployment tool, but it should be similar to

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MsiExec.exe /i "\\xyz\Public\Installer\Resolve\14.0b4\DaVinci Resolve Panels Installer v1.1.1.msi" /qn /log %LOG_FILE% ALLUSERS="1" REBOOT="ReallySuppress"

MsiExec.exe /i "\\xyz\Public\Installer\Resolve\14.0b4\ResolveInstaller.msi" /qn /log %LOG_FILE% REBOOT="ReallySuppress" ALLUSERS="1"

This works fine here.

Open the .exe installer in the command prompt and use the /? switch. Should show a /extractcab (or similar) option. You'll get the true resolve MSI as well as postgres, which you can just ignore.

For the hardware certificate, install it on a single system manually and choose always trust for the blackmagic cert. Then pull the cert and add it as a GPO to your machines. Then you can silently install the MSI and all will work.

HI All, Soory to comment here, but I need to find out how to Silently install Davinci Resolve on macOS please?

After opening the DMG and it has installation file, however unlike other macOS apps it has a wizard, how can I skip this please?

Is there a terminal command similar? Can I straight copy the Davinci Resolve.app file(and it's content folder and then just do a copy via terminal?

Regards
Willem