SQLAnywhere 17 client non-interactive console installation

[Former Member]

I am building an environment for my project using Docker. In order to interact with SQLAnywhere database I need PHP7 (actually for my project build with Lumen framework), SQLAnywhere 17 client and PHP7 extension for SQLAnywhere. I have already managed to add PHP7 and PHP7 extension for SQLAnywhere to my project using Docker. Current Dockerfile:

FROM php:7.3.2-fpm

WORKDIR /var/www

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libmcrypt-dev libzip-dev unzip git libjpeg-dev libpng-dev wget \\
    && pecl install mcrypt-1.0.2 \\
    && docker-php-ext-enable mcrypt \\
    && docker-php-ext-configure zip --with-libzip \\
    && docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \\
    && docker-php-ext-install mbstring pdo_mysql zip gd

# Install Composer
RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php \\
    && mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/ \\
    && ln -s /usr/local/bin/composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

# Install SQL Anywhere client
RUN wget http://d5d4ifzqzkhwt.cloudfront.net/sqla17developer/bin/sqla17developerlinux.tar.gz -P /opt/sqlanywhere17/installation \\
    && tar zxvf /opt/sqlanywhere17/installation/sqla17developerlinux.tar.gz -C /opt/sqlanywhere17/installation \\
    && /opt/sqlanywhere17/installation/sqlany17/setup \\
    && rm -rf /opt/sqlanywhere17/installation

# Install SQL Anywhere php extension
RUN curl http://d5d4ifzqzkhwt.cloudfront.net/drivers/php/SQLAnywhere-php-7.0_Linux.tar.gz | tar xz \\
    && mv lib64/php-7.0.0_sqlanywhere.so /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20180731 \\
    && chown root:root /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20180731/php-7.0.0_sqlanywhere.so \\
    && chmod 644 /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20180731/php-7.0.0_sqlanywhere.so \\
    && rm -rf lib32 && rm -rf lib64

However, I cannot install SQLAnywhere client, because installation process is interactive and I cannot input any values while installation on Docker build (it stacks on first step of choosing "country & region" and keeps running constantly). Is there any non-interactive client installation? Or maybe I can pass parameters to client installation like the following:

./setup -parameter1 parameter1_value .... -parameterN parameterN_value

PS: This is the error I get multiple times in row, when installation script prompts me to enter "country & region":

TERM environment variable not set.

[Former Member]

I don't know anything about Docker, but you might be able to do silent command-line installs, documented

here for linux and here for Windows

[Former Member]

Thank you very much, seems that it works. However, it says that registration key is required in silent mode. But in the email sent by SAP it is clearly said that "There is no key required to install the SAP SQL Anywhere 17 Developer Edition". How can I obtain a key for sa17-developer?

[Former Member]

Oh, the Developer Edition - I ran into that too and was never able to find a way around it. There doesn't seem to be a way to supply a 'blank' key. I reported it to SAP quite a while ago (https://sqlanywhere-forum.sap.com/questions/26778/how-to-do-silent-install-of-developer-edition-ie-w... but it's been a long time since the Developer Edition has been updated.