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    • Git and Text Editor Notes for Windows 10

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      This post is just some notes to remind me how I like to setup a Windows 10 machine for editing scripts. Install and configure Git First step, install Git. Download the git installer . After downloading, run the installer and accept the default settings. Then add posh-git for Powershell : Open a Powershell window “as Administrator” and execute the following : set-ExecutionPolicy bypass git clone git://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git.git cd posh-git ./install.ps1 . $PROFILE Install and configure Sublime Text Start by downloading and installing Sublime Text.

    • Deploying SPSS Statistics 24

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      I previously posted a method for scripting the activation of SPSS Statistics 23. My method has changed for version 24, so I thought it would be a good idea to write up my notes. First up, repackaging. Due to the SPSS silent installer being notoriously bad, I had already decided I would just repackage version 24 and use a postinstall script to activate. It really is the best way to ensure that it will deploy properly.

    • Renewing SPSS for Mac License Silently

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      It’s not hard to find discussions online about installing SPSS silently. I have a working install based on this discussion . I needed to re-license a number of machines with a new authorization code and had a bit of trouble, so I thought I’d write it up… I built a payload free package with The Luggage to distribute with Munki, and my first attempt at the postinstall script looked like this :

    • Building a Signed Package With the Luggage

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      Recently I wanted to be able to sign a package that I was building with The Luggage. Since The Luggage is calling pkgbuild to build the package, I took a look at the pkgbuild documentation and determined that the following argument was needed : --sign "Common name of signing cert" The question then became : how to add this to my Makefile? Taking a look at luggage.make I saw that PB_EXTRA_ARGS is the variable used to contain the arguments for the pkgbuild command.