# How to launch software on final page and stop installer ?

 1 1 Currently my installer's final page offers a check box labelled 'Launch Software' and when you check it and click 'Finish' the installer starts the software as a child process and closes it's graphical windows but still continues to run. Is there a way to make the installer launch the installed software as a standalone process after clicking the final page's 'Finish' button, so that the installer itself exits and stops existing as a process, but the installed software continues to run ? asked 16 Apr '13, 04:01 Neo Cortex 141●24●26●30 accept rate: 0%

 3 On Windows, I'm appending an ampersand to the launch parameters; on Mac OS X , I'm using the open command (see x-man-page://open):  path\to\software.exe & ${msg(LaunchSoftware.Checkbox.Name)} (...) open path/to/software.app${msg(LaunchSoftware.Checkbox.Name)} (...)  Also, please have a look here: http://installbuilder.bitrock.com/docs/installbuilder-userguide.html#_launching_in_the_background answered 16 Apr '13, 04:20 Dirk Stegemann 681●28●32●44 accept rate: 31% Adding the ampersand as an argument in the end does not fix this on MacOSX (26 Apr '13, 04:24) Neo Cortex The proposed approach (appending an ampersand) works for Windows. On Mac OS X, I'm using the 'open' command. I updated the description in the answer. Hope that helps! (26 Apr '13, 06:25) Dirk Stegemann
 0 I did the following for MacOSX:  (...) escaped_installdir \\ ${installdir} open${escaped_installdir} some message ${env(USER)} 0${installdir}/  And respectively for Linux:  ${installdir}/programname > /dev/null 2> /dev/null < /dev/null & disown some message${env(SUDO_USER)} 0 \${installdir}/  Those did the trick. answered 26 Apr '13, 11:26 Neo Cortex 141●24●26●30 accept rate: 0%
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