I'm trying to install the VLC media player using a Powershell script.

I opened the VLC wiki and found this (that's the only help I found online):

Start process -FilePath "C: \ Temp \ VLC.exe" -ArgumentList "/ L = 1033 / S"

When I run this command I don't get an error, but I have to accept the windows admin thing and that's it. VLC cannot be installed.

All ideas are welcome.

I'm new to scripting and coding

CodePudding user response：

It's maybe not an answer to your question, but I would suggest to install software using Chocolatey. This is very simple, it's powershell based and consists in only 1 command line (but first you need to install Chocolatey):

choco install vlc

And it's very easy to update installed software as well...

CodePudding user response：

This can be done without powershell. I'm not sure why people jump so often to start-process. I guess it won't work if you quote the command. It can be run directly:

.\vlc-3.0.11-win32.exe /L=1033 /S

Msi version:

install-package vlc-3.0.16-win64.msi

Default preferences file for ignoring update prompts, etc:

copy-item vlcrc C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\vlc