pkg install error on Big Sur

RLim945
New Contributor III

Hi, we're trying to install Zoom via Self Service using a script that we found on here and it seems to be having trouble accessing the /tmp/ folder to run the installer. It seems to work fine on some computers, but on others, we get the following error:

Script result: Latest Version is: 
Zoom is not installed
Latest version of the URL is: https://zoom.us/client//ZoomInstallerIT.pkg
installer: Error - the package path specified was invalid: '/tmp/ZoomInstallerIT.pkg'.
2021-02-03 09:36:50.761 defaults[1820:17666] 
The domain/default pair of (/Applications/zoom.us.app/Contents/Info, CFBundleVersion) does not exist

Below is the full script. The installer definitely goes into the tmp folder just fine, but for some reason, the command to run the installer fails. I tried running the command manually and I get stuck on the same step

#!/bin/sh
#####################################################################################################
#
# ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
#
# NAME
#       ZoomInstall.sh -- Installs or updates Zoom
#
# SYNOPSIS
#       sudo ZoomInstall.sh
#
####################################################################################################
#
# HISTORY
#
#       Version: 1.1
#
#       1.1 - Shannon Johnson, 27.9.2019
#       Updated for new zoom numbering scheme
#       Fixed the repeated plist modifications
#   
#       1.0 - Shannon Johnson, 28.9.2018
#       (Adapted from the FirefoxInstall.sh script by Joe Farage, 18.03.2015)
#
####################################################################################################
# Script to download and install Zoom.
# Only works on Intel systems.
#

# Set preferences
hdvideo=""
ssodefault="true"
ssohost="xxxxxxx.zoom.us"


# choose language (en-US, fr, de)
lang=""
# CHECK TO SEE IF A VALUE WAS PASSED IN PARAMETER 1 AND, IF SO, ASSIGN TO "lang"
if [ "$4" != "" ] && [ "$lang" == "" ]; then
        lang=$4
else 
        lang="en-US"
fi

pkgfile="ZoomInstallerIT.pkg"
plistfile="us.zoom.config.plist"
logfile="/Library/Logs/ZoomInstallScript.log"

# Are we running on Intel?
if [ '`/usr/bin/uname -p`'="i386" -o '`/usr/bin/uname -p`'="x86_64" ]; then
        ## Get OS version and adjust for use with the URL string
        OSvers_URL=$( sw_vers -productVersion | sed 's/[.]/_/g' )

        ## Set the User Agent string for use with curl
        userAgent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X ${OSvers_URL}) AppleWebKit/535.6.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.2 Safari/535.6.2"

        # Get the latest version of Reader available from Zoom page.
        latestver=`/usr/bin/curl -s -A "$userAgent" https://zoom.us/download | grep 'ZoomInstallerIT.pkg' | awk -F'/' '{print $3}'`
        echo "Latest Version is: $latestver"

        # Get the version number of the currently-installed Zoom, if any.
        if [ -e "/Applications/zoom.us.app" ]; then
        currentinstalledver=`/usr/bin/defaults read /Applications/zoom.us.app/Contents/Info CFBundleVersion | sed -e 's/0 //g' -e 's/(//g' -e 's/)//g'`
                echo "Current installed version is: $currentinstalledver"
                if [ ${latestver} = ${currentinstalledver} ]; then
                        echo "Zoom is current. Exiting"
                        exit 0
                fi
        else
                currentinstalledver="none"
                echo "Zoom is not installed"
        fi

        url="https://zoom.us/client/${latestver}/ZoomInstallerIT.pkg"

        echo "Latest version of the URL is: $url"
        echo "`date`: Download URL: $url" >> ${logfile}

        # Compare the two versions, if they are different or Zoom is not present then download and install the new version.
        if [ "${currentinstalledver}" != "${latestver}" ]; then

                # Construct the plist file for preferences
                echo "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
                 <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
                 <plist version="1.0">
                 <dict>
                        <key>nogoogle</key>
                        <string>0</string>
                        <key>nofacebook</key>
                        <string>1</string>
                        <key>DisableLoginWithEmail</key>
                        <string>1</string>
                        <key>ZDisableVideo</key>
                        <false/>
                        <key>ZAutoJoinVoip</key>
                        <true/>
                        <key>ZDualMonitorOn</key>
                        <false/>" > /tmp/${plistfile}

                if [ "${ssohost}" != "" ]; then
                        echo "
                        <key>ZAutoSSOLogin</key>
                        <true/>
                        <key>ZSSOHost</key>
                        <string>$ssohost</string>" >> /tmp/${plistfile}
                fi

                echo "<key>ZAutoFullScreenWhenViewShare</key>
                        <false/>
                        <key>ZAutoFitWhenViewShare</key>
                        <true/>" >> /tmp/${plistfile}

                if [ "${hdvideo}" == "true" ]; then
                        echo "<key>ZUse720PByDefault</key>
                        <true/>" >> /tmp/${plistfile}
                else
                        echo "<key>ZUse720PByDefault</key>
                        <false/>" >> /tmp/${plistfile}
                fi

                echo "<key>ZRemoteControlAllApp</key>
                        <true/>
                </dict>
                </plist>" >> /tmp/${plistfile}

                # Download and install new version
                /bin/echo "`date`: Current Zoom version: ${currentinstalledver}" >> ${logfile}
                /bin/echo "`date`: Available Zoom version: ${latestver}" >> ${logfile}
                /bin/echo "`date`: Downloading newer version." >> ${logfile}
                /usr/bin/curl -sLo /tmp/${pkgfile} ${url}
                if pgrep 'zoom.us'; then
                    /bin/echo "`date`: Closing Zoom" >> ${logfile}
                    /usr/bin/pkill zoom.us
                    /bin/sleep 5
                    fi
                /bin/echo "`date`: Installing PKG..." >> ${logfile}
                /usr/sbin/installer -allowUntrusted -pkg /tmp/${pkgfile} -target /

                /bin/sleep 10
                /bin/echo "`date`: Deleting downloaded PKG." >> ${logfile}
                /bin/rm /tmp/${pkgfile}

                #double check to see if the new version got updated
                newlyinstalledver=`/usr/bin/defaults read /Applications/zoom.us.app/Contents/Info CFBundleVersion`
        if [ "${latestver}" = "${newlyinstalledver}" ]; then
                /bin/echo "`date`: SUCCESS: Zoom has been updated to version ${newlyinstalledver}" >> ${logfile}
                # /Library/Application Support/JAMF/bin/jamfHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/jamfHelper -windowType hud -title "Zoom Installed" -description "Zoom has been updated." &
        else
                /bin/echo "`date`: ERROR: Zoom update unsuccessful, version remains at ${currentinstalledver}." >> ${logfile}
                /bin/echo "--" >> ${logfile}
                        exit 1
                fi

        # If Zoom is up to date already, just log it and exit.
        else
                /bin/echo "`date`: Zoom is already up to date, running ${currentinstalledver}." >> ${logfile}
        /bin/echo "--" >> ${logfile}
        fi      
else
        /bin/echo "`date`: ERROR: This script is for Intel Macs only." >> ${logfile}
fi


exit 0
4 REPLIES 4

Dylan_YYC
Contributor III

Stupid question, but why are you doing it this way? Id just use the PKG file from Zoom then use Patch Management to handle the updates. If youve got a mix of Apple chips and Intel, just use smart groups to separate them

cbrewer
Valued Contributor II

@Dylan_YYC Because it requires uploading a new pkg every time Zoom releases an update - which is often.

@RLim945 You can compare your script to mine for ideas. I prefer mktemp for creating a temp directory.

SlidewaysF30
New Contributor III

I've also been experiencing this issue as well as issues with the actual pkg failing to install. Haven't really pinpointed the source of the issue but it doesn't appear to be consistent. It only happens on a handful of Macs and my thought is that they are disconnecting from our internal network during the time the script runs, causing this error. I could be wrong though. 

virtasupport
New Contributor II

Some applications just do not allow creating a package in Composer. Zoom supplies a package so there is no need to create one. Zoom is a fun one to manage. Download the package and rename with version number and whether it is Intel or M1