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Overview

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Installer properties are the key to customising the Yellowfin installer. Different properties are used to make different changes to the installer, including:

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Providing Values for Installer Properties

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Values for installer properties can be set in different ways. In order of precedence, these are:

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The silent installer does not display a user interface. Therefore all user options must be provided through the properties files or command-line arguments.

Custom Properties File

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The custom properties file is the main way to customise the installer. You can add properties to this file that modify the way the installer looks and behaves. This file is a java properties file named custom.properties that is added to the root of the installer archive (see Adding Files to the Installer).

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The custom properties file is a series of key-value pairs of the form “key=value” on separate lines. Blank lines are ignored, and a line starting with a # is treated as a comment.

Command-line Arguments

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Installer properties may be provided as command-line arguments when running the installer. The general usage is:

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Silent Installer Properties File

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An additional properties file may be specified when using the silent installer. For historical reasons, the properties in this file have different names to the standard installer properties, but have the same functionality.

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InstallPath=/applications/yellowfin
InstallTutorialDatabase=true
ServicePort=8080
InstallService=false
DatabaseType=MySQL
CreateYellowfinDB=true
CreateYellowfinDBUser=talsefalse
DatabaseHostname=localhost
DatabaseName=yellowfin
DatabaseDBAUser=root
DatabaseDBAPassword=secret
DatabaseUser=yf
DatabasePassword=

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