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!
--
Kent
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:24 AM Alan Mead <am...@alanmead.org> 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!
>
> --
> Kent West <")))><
> Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
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>
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>
> "You're an interesting species. An interesting mix.
> You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such
> horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off,
> so alone, only you're not. See, in all our
> searching, the only thing we've found that makes
> the emptiness bearable, is each other."
>
> -- Carl Sagan, Contact
>
>
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