Does InstallShield keep a log during installation?

Question

Just want to know if InstallShield keeps a log during installation of an application.

I already checked C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information{GUID}, but there isn't a log file there.

The reason is that the installation of a 3rd party tool is failing with an arbitrary error such as:

"The following error occurred on file \ZZZ. File is readonly"

Options are: Ignore, Retry, Abort

I want to find out the complete path to the file as well as other information and I think this might be on the log (if there's any).

Thanks.

Answer 1

See http://documentation.installshield.com/robo/projects/installshield12helplib/IHelpSetup%5FEXECmdLine.htm for the official docs on Installshield's command line parameters.

If you're runnning a setup.exe rather than an MSI file, and are running it silently then you can use the /f2 parameter to specify the log file location. Something like:

Setup.exe /s /f2"C:\Setup.log"

Answer 2

Also available for installshield Setup.Exe is the /V switch.

Setup.exe /V"/LIME c:\Temp\Install.log"

Answer 3

Well you can force it to have one:

msiexec.exe /i C:\Path\Your.msi /L*v C:\Your.log