Packaging+SPSS19+with+patches+and+ITS+Server

=Packaging SPSS 19 with patches and point to ITS SPSS server=

===Background === This post aims to teach you how to package the silent install of IBM’s SPSS Statistics 19, patch and ITS SPSS network license server .. Each installed copy of SPSS has to be activated online. ===The Instructions === You can find the silent installer at /MacOS/Administration/SPSS Statistics_Installer_Silent.bin, however you will find that this file is missing. So they posted the installer on their support site. You will need to register for an account at http://support.spss.com and go to this link.

Download the file SPSS Statistics_Installer_Silent.bin. This file contains the entire installer so you will not need the GUI installer that is on the disc. The only other file you will need from the disc is the **installer.properties **file. This is the file that contains all the properties used for the install. You will want to specify the following settings in the installer.properties:

INSTALLER_UI=silent

USER_INSTALL_DIR=/Applications/IBM/Statistics/19/ LICENSE_ACCEPTED=true

network=1
 * 1) LICENSETYPE
 * 2) For Network license

EN=1

COMPANYNAME="The University Of Melbourne" LSHOST=835s-wsus1.its.unimelb.edu.au

This is just a small snippet of the file, I only posted the parts I needed to change. The command to deploy is simply:

SPSS_Statistics_Installer_Silent.bin -f installer.properties

===Packaging ===

Use [|Packages] program to create the SPSS 19 package. The current template is located at here afp://thor.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/development/packages/

Download the entire folder and open up SPSS19.pkgproj file.

The package built for postflight script to install package that doesn't go through the proper installer command from apple.

The postflight script will install SPSS 19, configure the unimelb SPSS server and install the SPSS19001 update.

The payload is put into the /tmp folder, the SPSS Statistics_Installer_Silent.bin, installer.properties and the SPSS19-19001.update.pkg

The postflight script will run and install the SPSS 19 with the installer.properties setting and SPSS19-19001 update in sequential order.

Tested Environment

Tested on Mac OS X 10.6.5 using both GUI installer and command line sudo installer -pkg SPSS19.pkg -target

Both test passed, SPSS successfully installed and registered to the unimelb SPSS server.

<span style="color: #464646; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'Liberation Sans',FreeSans,sans-serif;">Another issue is that because the license activation is machine specific, you will not be able to use this installer with <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; color: #d54e21; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">InstaDMG or include it with a monolithic image. If you deploy with <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px initial initial; color: #d54e21; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DeployStudio, you will need to make it a first boot install and ensure the network is available when it is installed.