Good news! As of SPSS 27 IBM is finally shipping an Apple installer package for macOS instead of their Java based silent installer. Looking at the installer, it has a few minor issues but is for the most part sane. The package can be imported into Munki without much fuss.
As in the past, activation will need to be scripted post install to license SPSS. The format of the path to the application has changed a bit, my postinstall script now looks like :
#!/bin/sh
SERVERPATH="server.myorg.org"
ACTIVATIONPATH="/Applications/IBM SPSS Statistics 27/Resources/Activation"
cd "$ACTIVATIONPATH"
./licenseactivator LSHOST=$SERVERPATH COMMUTE_MAX_LIFE=7
Can you elaborate on what issues you had with issues with the installer? The only instructions IBM offers are to run using /usr/sbin/installer as superuser, but that is hanging for me.
Hi Charlie, I’d have to crack open a copy of the installer to refresh my memory. Munki is able to deploy the installer OK in my experience, and Munki is invoking /usr/sbin/installer as root to do package installs.
A hanging silent installer is sometimes a problem with one of the package scripts. Did you take a look in /var/log/install.log for clues?