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BOINC upgrade permissions error

  • May 22, 2020
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We have the distributed computing software BOINC manually installed on a lot of our Macs. https://boinc.berkeley.edu

I'm trying to use Jamf to upgrade them to the latest version, 7.16.6, but am having lots of problems with permissions.

The developer of Packages said that, " It looks indeed to be an issue with the overwrite-permissions flag of the Apple Package format not being respected by Apple's Installer." He's filed a bug, but doubt if Apple will fix it soon.
I've had a look at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Tools_for_Mac_OS_X#Installing_BOINC_on_a_Mac_using_the_command_line

but not sure how to implement that in Jamf Pro.

Has anyone been able to do this or have any suggestions?

Thanks, James.