SPSS 19 into instadmg…

[tristan_mason]

Hi All (yet again)

First a big thanks to those who have helped me to date and replied to my ramblings.

I have seen a few posts about SPSS in particular version 19, the latest. Has anyone come up with a method of getting this into instadmg yet? I’ve had a crack with Composer and a snapshot but it didn’t work. Was a bit of a mess. I feel this app could be my downfall so any help would be great.

Regards

Tristan

[Rusty Myers]

I’ve not seen 19 yet, but I was able to deploy 16, 17, and 18 with snapshot packages and Composer. I did the authorization after the machine was booted, though. I had a package to authorize them, but didn’t do it to all machines.

Are you trying to deploy it with a license? Where is it failing?

[tristan_mason]

testing…

[tristan_mason]

sorry but I couldn’t post for about 4 days and it was driving me mad. kept getting an error message. was it me or the site?

[tristan_mason]

I think my problem was my lack of knowledge with making packages from a snapshot in Composer. It was my first try at the end of a long day and I think I made a hash of it by not concentrating. Time permitting i’l have another crack at it this week.

We have a site license for it but yes, I am trying to get it in the process serialised.

Cheers

Tristan

[tristan_mason]

I’ll be having another go at spss19 tomorrow. I’ll give composer a crack and see what I get at the end and if it’s usable. I’ll keep you all posted. all one of you mrspider…

Tristan

[Patrick Gallagher]

To do a silent install of SPSS 19, download [url]http://support.spss.com/Tech/Products/Statistics/Utilities/SPSSforMacOSX/index.html[/url] (you need to have a login for support.spss.com).

then, configure the installer.properties with the following options (the file is well commented, but for a different version!):

INSTALLER_UI=silent
USER_INSTALL_DIR=/Applications/IBM/Statistics/19/ (this had to be
specified even though the instructions say it would use the default path)
LICENSE_ACCEPTED=true
### LICENSETYPE
#For site license
site=1

COMPANYNAME=”Emory University”
AUTHCODE=111222333444555

Obviously adjust to your specifics.

Then deploy with “SPSS_Statistics_Installer_Silent.bin -f
installer.properties”

Takes care of the install and licensing. You only need those 2 files, the
SPSS_Statistics_Installer_Silent.bin is the full 900MB-ish install.

However, because this exits with a non “exit 0” result, it might return an
error to your deployment tool (I use Absolute Manage) so to get around
that I just put that command in an script:

[code]#!/bin/sh

scriptDir=$(dirname “$0”)

“${scriptDir}/SPSS_Statistics_Installer_Silent.bin” -f “${scriptDir}/installer.properties”

exit 0[/code]

This could then be easily packaged to install with a postflight, I just haven’t done so because we’re only deploying through Absolute Manage as requested.

[tristan_mason]

thanks for the good oil on spss. I had a go again with composer on Friday and while it made a usable installer it didn’t keep the serialization which is no good to me. I’ll have a crack at this on Monday and post the results. again thanks.

tristan

[Patrick Gallagher]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: tristan_mason[/u][p]thanks for the good oil on spss. I had a go again with composer on Friday and while it made a usable installer it didn’t keep the serialization which is no good to me. I’ll have a crack at this on Monday and post the results. again thanks.

tristan[/p][/QUOTE]

I should have mentioned, this will not work with an InstaDMG setup because the activation needs to be run on each machine and is machine specific (MAC address). You can’t capture the license/serial so you will need to either deploy after imaging or make it a firstboot install.

[Rusty Myers]

I forgot about this:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5442688/spss18%20Authorization.zip

It’s a package I created that will authorized SPSS 18. You can edit for your own needs. It’s designed for 18, but we already know how to fix that, thanks to Patrick.

I usually just run it through ARD when I get a request. If you need have it run on every machine, a launchd item that runs a script to wait for network availability and run the package installer.

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