Re: Silent/Unattended Install of PSPP?

[Kent West]

Thank you for that info, Alan; it helped push me toward success. I had tried all the usual switches to "setup.exe", but I didn't consider that case might matter. It does. My solution was:

    pspp-20181109-daily-64bits-setup.exe /S

with the /S being capitalized.

Thanks again!

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Kent

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:24 AM Alan Mead <address@hidden> wrote:

Because Windows doesn't include the buildchain, Harry Thijssen provides Windows installs as Windows executables:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows
http://pspp.awardspace.com/

The installer is NSIS, which supports silent installs: https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Docs/Chapter4.html#silent , but it looks like Harry would have to enable/support that usage and I have no idea whether he's done so (or whether that applies to EXE's vs. MSI's).

Another issue you should consider is that PSPP is not a feature-complete replacement for SPSS, although you can open/manipulate/save SPSS files (better than SPSS because more versions are supported) and do many statistical analyses.

-Alan

On 2/14/2019 9:51 AM, Kent West wrote:

(Please CC me as I'm not subscribed)

I've just discovered PSPP. I work for a university, and we have SPSS in some of our computer labs, and sometimes staff or faculty ask to turn SPSS, but our license is only for academic/educational use, and sometimes I fear we tread on gray areas.

I hate having to track licensing and compliance, etc, so when I discovered PSPP, it was - Whoo-hoo! (I love GPL software! Big Debian fanatic, here.)

However, I'm not going to be able to push PSPP usage over that of SPSS unless I can get it installed easily. And that means an unattended install. (I'm not going to go sit at or remote to every machine one-by-one to install PSPP, just to push "OK, OK,Continue, OK, Finish (or whatever the sequence).)

I've found a reference to a silent install in a web search, but no details as to how it is done, other than to use some third-party(?) product named OPSI. I'm not interested in learning yet another package-management system (that may not even be available 18 years after that post).

So, tl;dr, is there a way to install PSPP in an unattended manner (Windows and Mac; Debian is easy - 'apt install pspp', done!)?

Thanks!

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