Installation and Uninstallation commands for PCB Editor Viewer

Download the CadencePCBViewers.exe installer from the following location:

www.cadence.com/.../allegro-downloads-start.html

After downloading the installer, follow these steps:

1. Move the CadencePCBViewers.exe to a directory. In this case CadencePCBViewers.exe was moved to C:\Cadence directory.

2. Open Windows Command Prompt from the location of the installer.

3. Enter the following command to start the silent installation:

CadencePCBViewers.exe -silent -TARGETDIR=<Installation directory>

For example: c:\cadence\CadencePCBViewers.exe -silent -TARGETDIR=c:\cadence\CadencePCBViewerInstall

Note: If you have the SPB23.1 software installed, the silent installation of Allegro Free Physical Viewer will not proceed.

To Silently uninstall enter the follow command:

CadencePCBViewers.exe -remove

For example: c:\cadence\CadencePCBViewers.exe -remove

Thank you !

The remove command does not work, instead of removing it reinstalls the application back again. 

Any suggestions please ?

I think it is going to take a while.

I wonder if this will help. I was testing with other arguments. 

PCBEditorViewer.exe /uninst

What it will do (or what it did on my system) was remove the entry of the application from the registry but leaves the directory (hierarchy intact) and the menus as well, perhaps using this command and then a command to delete the directory structure may work for you now? For the time being. 

Can you please try

PCBEditorViewer.exe -uninst

Let me know how it goes?

Thank you! 

Hello, Thank you for your reply. I did some tests and here are the results...

1. The application was already installed on my device, ran PCBEditorViewer.exe -uninst using CMD as admin, it did remove the application. However, it was still showing in my control panel - add and remove programs without an icon. I had to manually remove it from there.

2. Application was installed again manually by clicking PCBEditorViewer.exe, then ran PCBEditorViewer.exe -uninst in CMD, gives me an error and quits on me. Some error about client or server. I was not able to replicate that error again.

3. Seems that if you install using CMD you can only uninstall using CMD, if you installed manually then you cannot uninstall using CMD, gives an error. I re installed the application using CMD command -silent, it got installed. Then used the -uninst command it got removed. 

4. When I  installed and uninstalled the 2nd time using CMD, the application was no where to be found in my start menu, nor in add and remove programs. However the application folder existed and run from the application folder.

4. I will do a test deploy using Microsoft Intune and share the results soon. Maybe that workflow behavior might be little different. 

Thank you so much for these valuable points. It is much more appreciated than I can possibly articulate. 

Thank you for all your help, I appreciate a lot. 

Tested deployment with Microsoft Intune and guess what it works !!
Installation command line: PCBEditorViewer.exe -TARGETDIR=C:\Cadence\PCBEditorViewer_24.1 -silent
Uninstallation command line: PCBEditorViewer.exe -uninst

Everything works fine, Thank you !!!

Thank you for all your help, I appreciate a lot. 

Tested deployment with Microsoft Intune and guess what it works !!
Installation command line: PCBEditorViewer.exe -TARGETDIR=C:\Cadence\PCBEditorViewer_24.1 -silent
Uninstallation command line: PCBEditorViewer.exe -uninst

Everything works fine, Thank you !!!

Made my day. That's great news. Thank you so much,