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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Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
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