I previously wrote about a script to license SPSS for Mac silently. In version 25 of SPSS Statistics, the path to the bundled Java has changed. It now no longer has the version of the JRE in the path. As a result the script now looks like this :
#!/bin/bash -x VERSION=25 AUTHCODE=<redacted> APPPATH="/Applications/IBM/SPSS/Statistics/$VERSION/SPSSStatistics.app/" cd "$APPPATH/Contents/bin" "$APPPATH/Contents/JRE/bin/java" -jar "$APPPATH/Contents/bin/licenseactivator.jar" SILENTMODE CODES=$AUTHCODE
If SPSS keeps a consistent path to the bundled Java, it will make it a little bit easier to update the script for each new version of SPSS Statistics.
Saved me a fair bit of time trying to work that out – cheers!
Thank you for this. I repackaged the SPSS app and used this script as a post install to license it. Worked perfectly.