How can I silently install Google Chrome?

Question

I want to make a silent installation of Google Chrome Beta. I've tried invoking the ChromeSetup.exe downloader with /s or /-ms but nothing worked.

Then I've downloaded the standalone installation version, and tried the same, but got the same result – the silent installation doesn't work.

Basically what I need is to avoid the post-installation dialog ("Choose a search engine"). Is there a way to silently choose Google?

Answer 1

1. Download the Chrome installer.

2. Use the switches /silent and /install like so:

   chrome_installer.exe /silent /install
   

3. Enjoy!

Answer 2

Installing with the MSI file with the q flag will give you a silent install.

Answer 3

It is possible to silent install Chrome using Chocolatey.

Install Chocolatey

Open a commandprompt as an Administrator and issue:

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin

Install Chrome

choco install googlechrome

Answer 4

For a setup file which has .msi extension:

msiexec /q /i GoogleChromeStandoloneEnterprise.msi

For detailed information, see this blog post.

Answer 5

If only PowerShell 2.0 had a native one-line curl... For simplicity, I created my own, which takes a url and downloads the content. If you need basic auth, I've provided parameters for that too.

To get up and running:

1. Load a PowerShell console
2. Create a ps1, psm1 or simply copy and paste and execute this code block in PowerShell.
3. The code will call Get-Url and silently execute chrome_installer.exe

NOTE: if you have any issues:

• ensure you are running PowerShell in Administrator mode
• C:\temp is an existing directory that you can access (or just change your $filePath)

# our curl command, with basic authentication if $credentials provided
function Get-Url {
    param(
        [string]$url, # e.g. "http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/375.126/chrome_installer.exe"
        [string]$filepath, # e.g. "c:\temp\chrome_installer.exe"
        [string]$credentials # e.g. "username:pass"
    )

    $client = New-Object System.Net.WebClient;

    if ($credentials) {
        $credentialsB64 = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($credentials) ;
        $credentialsB64 = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($credentialsB64) ;    
        $client.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + $credentialsB64) ;
    }    

    $client.DownloadFile($url, $filepath);
}

# curl and run silent install
Get-Url http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/375.126/chrome_installer.exe c:\temp\chrome_installer.exe ;
c:\temp\chrome_installer.exe /silent /install ;

Answer 6

Not sure if this is what you want, but:

choco install chrome

Answer 7

This works perfectly - tested on Windows 10 EDU 64 bit using PDQ Deploy on 10 laptops at once: Also works with the offline installer chromestandalonesetup.exe with tags /silent /install on PDQ Deploy

msiexec.exe /i "\\tabeguache\c$\PDQ Deploy Packages\googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi"  /quiet /passive 

I highly recommend installing the free PDQDeploy. Just download the MSI and enter the custom install command as above and choose the computers you want to install it on. It installs onto as many computers you want, 8 at a time queued, without having to touch the computer, whether anyone is logged on to the machine or not. If you also install PDQInventory you can install it onto all Domain workstations in surprisingly few clicks.

Answer 8

You can "silently install" Google Chrome on any modern Windows OS with the following Powershell one-liner:

$LocalTempDir = $env:TEMP; $ChromeInstaller = "ChromeInstaller.exe"; (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/375.126/chrome_installer.exe', "$LocalTempDir\$ChromeInstaller"); & "$LocalTempDir\$ChromeInstaller" /silent /install; $Process2Monitor =  "ChromeInstaller"; Do { $ProcessesFound = Get-Process | ?{$Process2Monitor -contains $_.Name} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name; If ($ProcessesFound) { "Still running: $($ProcessesFound -join ', ')" | Write-Host; Start-Sleep -Seconds 2 } else { rm "$LocalTempDir\$ChromeInstaller" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Verbose } } Until (!$ProcessesFound)

Well, technically it isn't an one-liner, but it works like it is. It will work even if IE Enhanced Security is turned on, thus making it very useful for Windows Server brand-new installations when IE will prevent you from downloading Chrome.

You can also read here for additional info.

Answer 9

Trying to install Google Chrome v42 via MSI was failing for me using the silent install commands in this post. When I ran the MSI manually, i found that it pops up a UAC prompt, and that the silent install was failing due to the UAC prompt being blocked.

This is a really good article explaining the relationship between MSI and UAC.

Answer 10

You need to use this command :

start /wait msiexec /i "%~dp0%googlechromestandaloneenterprise.msi%" /qn /l*

First download msi file.

For more information read this article