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Hi all!
My first post on this list, and I'm just keen to see if anyone has managed to package (using Composer) and ACTIVATE SPSS 20 (or a previous version, even) with a site license. I thought that installing SPSS without registering and then using some sort of activation script would do the trick, but so far no joy. I packaged using Composer with snapshot, then removed the /Users changes.

What I did was trying to activate SPSS via terminal thusly:

cd /Applications/IBM/SPSS/Statistics/20/SPSSStatistics.app/Contents/bin/
./licenseactivator <LICENSECODE>

Trying /Applications/IBM/SPSS/Statistics/20/SPSSStatistics.app/Contents/bin/licenseactivator <LICENSECODE>
gave no joy at all, probably since licenseactivator.jar wasn't in the path. One could possibly export the path to /Applications/IBM/SPSS/Statistics/20/SPSSStatistics.app/Contents/bin/ and get it to work.

Actually, it worked on the original, unlicensed install, but on the packaged it SEEMED to work, I got a positive license reply from SPSS, but when launching the program, it was a "no". Actually, I couldn't activate it using the License Authorization Wizard either. I've done clones of 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 with SPSS 20 installed, but unauthorized before without this problem.

So: if anyone is using Casper Composer to package, and some script to activate, SPSS, I'd be much obliged for any suggestions. My thinking is that maybe, just maybe, SPSS installs something somewhere that Composer doesn't see…

TIA,
//Martin

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Ah. I used fsevents instead and discovered that SPSS installs a bunch of stuff in /var/.slm. Possibly, all that is needed is the structure as such (which is 777), not the files therein. Now for the scripting part.

//Martin

We've been using the following method;

Wrap up a .dmg of the SPSS_Statistics_Installer_Silent.bin that is
available with the install media (I think you may also be able to download
it), as well as the site-installer.properties. They give you a dummy file
you can plan around with. All we did was insert out site license into that
file and once it's been pulled locally down to the machine and unpacked
/Library/Temp/SPSS for instance, you throw this command at it;

/Library/Temp/SPSS/SPSS_Statistics_Installer_Silent.bin -f
/Library/Temp/SPSS/site-installer.properties

As long as the Mac has internet access you'll have an activated copy.

Sorry I can't give anymore information about the location of the actually
.bin - we packaged this up several months ago and documentation isn't our
strongest point.

Regards

Rhys.

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